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Notes:

1. Figures given excludecapital receipts.

The consent system ceased from1 April 2004, with the introduction of the Prudential regime. 2. Inaddition to the non-housing consents, Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire Councilsreceived allocations of £1.6 million and £5.7 million respectively in each of the years above for housing capital expenditure.

Before Free Personal and NursingCare was introduced local authorities were already receiving funding to providepersonal care services without charge to those people who could not afford to payfor them. Local authorities are expected to continue to use this money as well asthe additional funds provided for the policy.

£162 million has been providednationally for the current year. £85.3 million of this is provided for personaland nursing care payments on behalf of people in care homes. Line (1) of the followingtable represents the amount provided for Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire councils.

The balance of this money, £76.7million, has been provided for personal care at home and this is included in the£467.3 million provided in the GAE line Services for Home Based Elderly. Line (2)of the following table represents the amount provided under that GAE line for Argylland Bute and West Dunbartonshire councils.

Delivery of the aims of theplan is being taken forward by a range of organisations including at a local levelthrough Alcohol and Drugs Action Teams (ADATs). Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire are covered by the Argyll and Clyde ADAT other than theClydebank area of West Dunbartonshire, which is covered by Greater Glasgow ADAT.

Since2002-03 each ADAT has been tasked with producing annual Corporate Action Plans whichinclude actions that are being taken forward locally to tackle alcohol related problems.These are available on the ISD website at:

Each Drug Action Team producesan Annual Corporate Action Plan which sets out the actions they plan to take overthe year to address local drug problems. These plans are available on the ISD websitehttp://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org.

The funding allocated for drugand alcohol treatment services in the Argyll and Clyde ADAT and the Greater GlasgowADAT since 1999 is as follows:

Information is not held in theform requested. For private sector dwellings, information is held by main postcodearea. In the PA postcode area, a total of 3,848 houses in the private sector arenow centrally heated as a result of the central heating programme.

Information on installationsin council properties is held at local authority level. In the West DunbartonshireCouncil area, a total of 202 council owned dwellings are now centrally heated asa result of the central heating programme. In the Argyll and Bute Council area atotal of 151 council owned dwellings had systems installed under the programme.

Underthe Make our Communities Safer Challenge Competition which ended in March 2002,the awards detailed in the following table were made:

Argylland Bute

West Dunbartonshire

On1 April 2002 we introduced a new Community Safety Partnership (CSP)Award Programme for all local authority-led CSPs. The programme assists CSPs toidentify and address their local community safety priorities, including crime prevention.The awards for 2002-03 onwards are set out in the following table:

Argylland Bute and West Dunbartonshire Community Planning Partnerships have been allocatedfunding to tackle antisocial behaviour over the period 2004-08 as set out in thefollowing table. This has included funding for a range of initiatives, which includemeasures that can contribute to crime prevention, such as community wardens.

PoliceGAE funding is paid directly to Strathclyde Joint Police Board and it is for theChief Constable of Strathclyde Police to decide on the best use of the funding availableto him. The amount of police GAE allocated to Strathclyde Police in each year since1999 is shown in the following table.