§ Mr. WoolasTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will estimate the cost of providing each further education student with an individual learning account credited with an amount equivalent to the cost of undergraduate tuition fees. [89359]
§ Mr. MudieThe national framework for individual learning accounts is being developed. Currently we are targeting people aged 18 years and over who are in employment or about to return to work. At this stage, we are not planning to offer individual learning accounts to full-time further education students. We are planning to pilot different approaches to some aspects of further education funding through individual learning accounts during 1999 and 2000.