Individual Learning Accounts

HC Deb 16 November 2001 vol 374 cc928-9W

Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what plans she has to examine the role of Capita in the operation of their contract to run individual learning accounts; and if she will make a statement. [14836]

John Healey

The Department regularly monitors the performance of Capita in the delivery of ILAs as part of the standard contract management arrangements.

Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of individual learning account credits was spent on IT-related skills. [15010]

John Healey

[holding answer 15 November 2001]: The Department holds information specific to basic IT-related learning which attracts an ILA incentive of 80 per cent. As at 31 October, ILAs had supported 765,873 such learning episodes at a total cost of £147,669,129, since the launch of the national framework in September 2000.

During this period ILAs have supported 1,380,370 learning episodes.

Course titles for the 20 per cent. ILA discount do not allow precise figures for IT-related learning to be extracted.