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The Individual Learning Accounts scheme was announced in the 1997 Labour Party manifesto〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Labour because Britain deserves better )〕 to support adult education with a system of tax incentives from employers, as well as a cash contribution of £150 to each of a million individuals. The system was biased towards the uptake of information technology skills, following the emergence of the Internet. ==Original scheme== The scheme was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown in the 1999 budget and was launched in 2000 in the form of financial reimburses to educational course providers for the cost of the ILA incentives. By the time the scheme was abandoned in October 2001, there were 8,500 accredited providers nationwide. The Department for Education and Skills was investigating 279 providers on the basis of substantial evidence of misselling, and police had arrested 30 people. Prosecutions based on this fraud were still taking place in 2008. Capita was the contractor that implemented the payment scheme. Following its investigation, the Parliamentary Committee of Public Accounts reported that the total expenditure on the scheme exceeded £290million (£37million paid towards Capita) with fraud and abuse amounting to £97 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tenth Report - Individual Learning Accounts )〕 The fraudulent activity was in the form of obtaining learning account numbers from individuals or of buying them from corrupt providers and simply cashing the credit, knowing that there was virtually no chance that the fact that no education had been delivered would be detected. At the same time, the "students" were made to think they were getting a computer for free. This was generally a 4–5 year-old machine, in which a "study pack" had been installed in order to amount to education providing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Individual Learning Account」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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