Select committee: Treasury Committee
Conclusion 12
1st Report – Student loans: Broken and unfair?
Published 7 Jul 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
Treasury Committee Student loans and taxation of graduates All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
It is regrettable that this government, along with all its predecessors, has continued to use RPI as its measure of inflation for student loans despite knowing it is statistically flawed. From 2030, RPI will be merged with CPIH, but this will be of little consolation to students who have had their loans inflated by a flawed measure for in some cases almost two decades. (Conclusion, Paragraph 46)
From: Treasury Committee, 1st Report – Student loans: Broken and unfair? (HC 14), 7 July 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 13 September 2026 (deadline 7 September 2026).