§ Mr. Jim CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on the operation of individual learning accounts. [75355]
§ Mr. Mudie[holding answer 10 March 1999]: A national framework for individual learning accounts will be established in the year 2000, within which all learning accounts will operate. Proposals for the national framework will be published in due course. These will include details of the incentives for learning accounts, announced by the Chancellor in his statement yesterday. There will be significant developments in 1999–2000 in advance of the national framework, involving a range of local, sectoral and national organisations.