Seventh Delegated Legislation Committee
24 June 2026
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Committee Actual start House of Commons
15:31 - 15:55
Speaker 2
Draft Lifelong Learning (Fee Limits) Regulations 2026. Just before I ask the Minister to move the motion, any honourable member or official who wishes to take their jacket off has the chair's permission. Minister, would you be good enough to move the motion?
15:55 - 17:19
Speaker 1
I beg to move that the Committee has considered the draft Lifelong Learning (Fee Limits) Regulations 2026. The draft regulations were laid before the House on the 18th of May.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr. Streeter. This statutory instrument is the first of three pieces of secondary legislation needed to implement the Lifelong Learning Entitlement, the LLE. It establishes a new system of tuition fee limits for higher education courses and modules that will begin on or after the 1st of January 2027. The LLE is a major reform to student finance, creating a single flexible funding system for level 4 to 6 across further and higher education.
It supports people to learn, upskill, and retrain throughout their working lives and delivers one of our core commitments from the post-16 education and skills white paper, underpinning the growth and skills missions. The concept of a Lifelong Learning Entitlement stems from the recommendations made by Sir Philip Augar's independent panel to the post-18 education and funding review back in 2019. Primary legislation in 2022-2023 under the previous government establishes the framework, and these regulations are the next steps in delivering it, a true cross-party effort. The specific regulations before us today set out how tuition fee limits will apply under the LLE.
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