Individual Learning Accounts (Hansard, 13 November 2000)

HC Deb 13 November 2000 vol 356 c503W 503W

§ Mr. Hilary Benn
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on progress in developing Individual Learning Accounts. [137369]

§ Mr. Wicks
According to the latest figures, people in England had opened around 400,000 Individual Learning Accounts. This represents good progress towards meeting the UK target of 500,000 accounts opened by March 2001 and of one million accounts by April 2002.