Petition · past parliament

Say no to retrospective freezing of student loan repayment threshold

Closed 255 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government's preferred option for the £21,000 repayment threshold is to freeze it for five years rather than the promised uprating every year. If enacted, this would be a retrospective changing of conditions, on which students would have based a decision to go to university. Morally wrong.
Vince Cable, Secretary of State, in a written ministerial statement, dated 8 December, 2010, said : " In order to give protection for those on lower incomes, we now propose that the uprating should be every year."

Timeline

15 Oct 2015 Petition opened for signatures
15 Apr 2016 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 255
Status Closed
Opened 15 Oct 2015
Closed 15 Apr 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.