To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in respect of how many student loan applications consideration was delayed in the period from September to December in each of the last five years. (317651)

Data are not readily available on the number of applications where “consideration was delayed” in the last five years. It would incur disproportionate cost to obtain this information.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people of each age in each local authority area had a debt with the Student Loans Company on the latest date for which figures are available. (321699)

The question cannot be answered as this would incur disproportionate cost.