"Graduates tell MPs they didn’t understand student loan terms"

Watch this !!!!!!!

Obsessed with these slides the DfE sent out to schools in 2019 to “inform” teenagers about how student loan repayments work. Published alongside the Treasury Committee’s survey results in which 2/3 of graduate responses say they didn’t fully understand the terms You can see their point…

The Treasury Committee has published a summary of the results of the survey on student loans and the taxation of graduates. We received over 52,000 responses. Read more about these results👇 committees.parliament.uk/committee/15...

"BANK CHIEF JOINS ATTACK ON FREEZING FOOD PRICES" #IsabellaFish / @stevenswinford.bsky.social for @thetimes.com The governor of the #BankOfEngland has warned ministers against "artificially moving prices" after #HMTreasury held talks with supermarkets. #TheTimes #TomorrowsPapersToday

"DON'T CAP FOOD PRICES, BANK WARNS REEVES" #SzuPingChan / #TimWallace / #DanielMartin for @telegraph.co.uk #AndrewBailey, who is #BankOfEngland's governor, as warned Chancellor #RachelReeves against capping supermarket food prices. #DailyTelegraph #TomorrowsPapersToday

"We're not the policy makers. We should not be the policy makers." Professor Douglas Elmendorf, former Director of the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO), speaks to MPs on the Treasury Committee about the role of financial forecasters 👇

Action on AI by the Bank of England after treasury committee report www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Writing in yesterday's Sunday Times, Treasury Committee Chair Meg Hillier MP set out why the student debt issue is so important 👇 https://www.thetimes.com/money/tax/article/meg-hillier-graduate-money-injustice-pqv65s8wd

More than 40,000 people have already shared their experiences of student loans with the Treasury Committee via the online form ⬇️ https://forms.office.com/e/1MaYfCrPy4 The deadline to submit is 5pm tomorrow.

Meg Hillier on student loans and intergenerational fairness in today’s Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/article/d164...

Almost half a million Lloyds customers had personal data exposed in IT glitch

www.cityam.com/lloyds-bank-... New letter published by treasury committee today !

Today the Treasury Committee has launched a inquiry into the student loan repayment system, and I went on BBC Breakfast this morning to talk about why it's so important. We have to make sure this system is fair for everyone, and we’d like to hear from young people in particular.

Student loans: how fair is our repayment system? Today our Treasury Committee is launching an inquiry into this very topic - and we’d like to hear from young people in particular. Anyone over the age of 16 in the UK can feed in to our inquiry here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

New inquiry on student loans launched by Treasury Committee !! @guardianheather.bsky.social interviews Meg on it in today’s Guardian www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m... If you have something to say about student loans (don’t we all??), pls fill out our survey ! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

"The regulator is under constant pressure to show it is supporting the government’s mission to grow the economy, but without any clear definition of exactly how much risk ministers are willing to accept."   Meg Hillier’s assessment of how the treasury is dealing with deregulation in finance sector

In which Meg Hillier pulls no punches in her disapproval of the Treasury and the chancellor over deregulation of financial services and the balance of risks - www.ft.com/content/8172...

How far the internet has fallen

Treasury Select Committee chair on the UK’s preparedness for a potential AI shock to the financial system in City AM www.cityam.com/financial-se...

Just spotted a genuinely moving message in an office entrance offering advice to employees on how to look after their mental health during a tough month

Government addicted to making announcements, says PM's enforcer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meg Hillier on lead up to Budget and OBR inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...

Budget leaks were damaging and unacceptable, Rachel Reeves admits www.thetimes.com/article/f325...

Analysis from me - the budget build up was chaotic long before the OBR accidentally published it - and whoever succeeds Richard Hughes is likely to want reassurance they and their forecasts won’t be kicked all over the press: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

When was the last time you read a positive post about UK politics? Well you may want to sit down for this. I think this is one of the most professionally prepared, well balanced, and knowledgeable Commons Treasury C'tees ever constituted. OBR seems shocked at the depth and seriousness of questions.

on.ft.com/45IjNvP @stephenkb.bsky.social : Mismanagement, not budget cuts, is damaging UK’s official data

This is very good. www.ft.com/content/8184...

“The litany of failures in UK statistics must stop” - excoriating words for ONS and UKSA from Simon Hoare MP, chair of the select committee, blaming poor governance for bad culture and collapse in standards. I agree, and under-resourcing is part of it. on.ft.com/4olbXQa (£, DM for gift link)

PACAC Chair Simon Hoare on the state of official statistics Expect more on this after recess !

Well this by @jemima.bsky.social is fascinating on multiple levels...

Governor not exactly backing Chancellor statement that regulation is a ‘boot on the neck’ of business on.ft.com/40uJFZg

My name has changed due to marriage (thanks etc) so I am now called Ben Slapper. All previous nicknames, abbreviations and insults continue to be valid.

Treasury Committee on FOS handling of Abby Thomas’ departure on.ft.com/4eRkR3C

ONS run like ‘Tudor court’ with ‘catastrophic’ failings www.thetimes.com/article/959d...

Lifetime Isas too complicated and risk being mis-sold, MPs warn www.thetimes.com/article/34c7...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Treasury committee chair Meg Hillier weighs in on ISAs www.telegraph.co.uk/money/savers...

Excl: PACAC chair's warning over civil service culture 'destabilisation' www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

Meg Hillier in today’s Mail: A cashless society risks cutting off the vulnerable www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Meg Hillier in tomorrow’s Times: If we can’t trust economics data, spending debates are built on sand www.thetimes.com/article/0400...

For once, though, good pushback, not least from the Chair of the Treasury Select Committee Meg Hillier - "where is the proof that stripping away financial services regulations will generate meaningful growth across the UK?" www.ft.com/content/57c1...

on.ft.com/3EI32pF Show me the evidence that City deregulation will help growth

NEW UK Parliament's Treasury Select Committee is calling in the govt's Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation to ask them questions about the effectiveness and implementation of Russian sanctions. Next Tuesday. Def one to watch 👀 committees.parliament.uk/work/8654/wo...