Community Computer Centres

HC Deb 10 June 1999 vol 332 cc390-1W

Mr. Wyatt

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when the national body to deliver community computer centres will be established. [85411]

Mr. Charles Clarke

We are in the process of establishing a co-ordinating group to steer this important initiative and to advise my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Education and Employment and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. An announcement will be made before the summer and I expect the first learning centres to be established this year, but I can say that the group will have a broad range of members unpaid, including both Government officials and individuals with experience in the private sector.