HC Deb 20 April 1998 vol 310 c494W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when he estimates every school student will have their own e-mail address. [37943]

Dr. Howells

The target set out in the Government's consultation paper, "Connecting the Learning Society", is that by 2002 all schools, colleges, universities and libraries and as many community centres as possible should be connected to the National Grid for Learning, enabling 75 per cent. of teachers and lecturers and 50 per cent. of pupils and students to use their own e-mail addresses.