HC Deb 24 July 2002 vol 389 c1367W
Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her Answer of 8th March, references 39110 and 39111, what the total cost was of the Computers Within Reach pilot scheme; how much funding remains; what evaluation has been made of the success of the scheme; and how this will inform future policy on the computers within reach concept. [43326]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

Pursuant to the reply given by John Healey on 19 March 2002,Official Report, column 256W, the expenditure of £5.5 million on the Computers Within Reach Scheme referred to the 2001–02 financial year only. The total expenditure on the scheme over the last two financial years was £7.1 million.