Select committee: Treasury Committee
Recommendation 13
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 ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
We reiterate the recommendation of the then Treasury Committee in 2018: “The Government should abandon the use of RPI in favour of CPI to calculate student loan interest rates.” We are disappointed that eight years later this recommendation has not been implemented. (Recommendation, Paragraph 47) Consumer harms from changing terms and conditions and mis-selling
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).