Home Computer Initiative - will it be resurrected?

It looks as if the UK Government is rethinking its decision - see report in previous issue of Fortnightly Mailing - to scrap the Home Computing Initiative.  According to and article by Martin Veitch IT Week: 

In an interview with IT Week, a Treasury spokesman confirmed that the original scheme had been scrapped because it was being abused and that a replacement for the HCI more targeted at the “elderly and very poor” is under discussion. However, there is “no concrete timetable” for the putative scheme.

“We are looking at how we can best use the resources of HCI but avoid the abuses we were witnessing of people buying third home computers or iPods,” the spokesman commented.

See also this 3/4/2006 press release from the TUC, in which TUC General Secretary welcomes signs of a rethink.