Individual Learning Account

The Individual Learning Accounts (ILA) scheme was a British Government scheme designed to support adult education in the United Kingdom from the late 1990s. The scheme was announced in the 1997 Labour Party manifesto to support adult education in Britain 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. The scheme was abandoned in October 2001, after widespread fraud and abuse was found.

ILA Scotland was a separate scheme launched in 2004 by the Scottish Executive, which was replaced in 2017. The The Welsh Assembly Government also ran an ILA scheme from 2004 until 2017.

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