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STUDENT PRISONERS PAID £730,000 IN LOANS
It has emerged that £730,000 has been paid in student loans to UK prisoners since 1998; three times more than originally reported.
Latest investigations by the Student Loans Company show that 154 inmates have received money via maintenance loans and grants, 44 in this current academic year alone.
In a written Commons’ statement, the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Secretary, John Denham said that although the payments were in accordance with rules at the time that they were made, they are a “long established and unjustifiable provision.”
Denham has now called a stop to the payments and “will be considering the future management of financial support for offenders in higher education.”
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