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Terms of Reference
Employer Student Loans Sub Group
- The Group will be HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) principal forum for employer
representatives and intermediaries including payroll specialists on student
loan issues.
- The Group will be a Sub Group of HMRC's Employer Consultation Forum.
- The Group will provide a forum for:
- HMRC to explain and obtain feedback on the implications of potential changes
to products and processes relating to student loan collection, including
Regulatory changes.
- Employer representatives, intermediaries and payroll specialists to raise
and discuss issues, concerns or problems for employers in administering
their student loan obligations.
- Cross government consultation on student loan issues that affect employers,
led by HMRC.
- The Group will be made up of nominees of employers' and intermediaries'
representative organisations, together with collection of student loan representatives
from HMRC, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Student
Loan Company (SLC).
- HMRC will provide the Chair and Secretariat for the Group.
- The Secretary will act as the principal point of contact for the Group.
- The Group will normally meet quarterly, but where appropriate will consider
and decide on issues by e-mail between formal meetings. Exceptionally, additional
meetings may be called at short notice to discuss urgent issues.
- Agendas will be prepared with contributions from Group members and circulated,
normally a week before meetings.
- The minutes of meetings will be published on the Internet.
- HMRC will take responsibility for notifying the Group where any issues are
being discussed on a confidential basis and the key points arising from
any such discussions will be recorded in a separate note to the Group, along
with the minutes that are being published on the internet.