§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate the Student Loan906W Company has made of the number of graduates who were in receipt of income contingent loans who are currently overseas: and what proportion of these have continued to make loan repayments. [155456]
§ Alan Johnson[holding answer 27 February 2004]: Repayments from borrowers who live overseas are made directly to the Student Loans Company (SLC). 4,700 people who should be repaying their income-contingent loan are currently living overseas. 56 per cent. of these have made no repayments because their income is below the repayment threshold of £10,000 per year; 32 per cent. have made repayments. The remainder are people who have not yet provided sufficient evidence in order for the SLC to assess their liability to repay their income-contingent loan.