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This is primarily a matter for Greater Glasgow NHS Board, which has a dedicated Emergency Planning Officer in place with the responsibility to co-ordinate a Major Incident Plan with partner agencies including local authorities and neighbouring NHS boards. The plan is regularly updated and is designed to make the best use of local and regional health care facilities in the event of significant casualties. The planned Emergency Care configuration includes: two specialist 24-hour A&E/trauma units, three emergency receiving units and five minor injury units. A city-wide children's A&E service will also continue to be provided at Yorkhill Hospital. Each of these elements will be built into the Major Incident Plan.

This is a matter for NHS Greater Glasgow.

Two tenants organisations have withdrawn from the transfer process since the ballot, a further 67 tenants groups continue to work closely with others in taking the process forward.

Glasgow City Council's housing stock at the time of the ballot was 83,687. It is currently projected that somewhere between 81,000 and 82,000 houses will transfer to the Glasgow Housing Association.

Glasgow will receive £975.3 million in total revenue grant this year. Of this, £4.21 million of unhypothecated grant has been allocated from the Children's Services Development Fund and £3.2 million has been allocated from the Surestart programme.Glasgow will also shortly receive an additional £662,000 in-year as part of our £3 million investment in youth justice teams announced on 18 October. They will receive £2.19 million in 2003-04 to tackle youth crime through the Children's Services Development Fund, and will be able to bid for a share of an additional £5.5 million through the recently announced Intensive Support Fund to carry out a range of activities in this area between now and 2005-06.

The four authorities participating in the pilot scheme are City of Edinburgh Council, Moray Council, South Ayrshire Council and Stirling Council.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1O-5580 on 19 September 2002. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa

During September and October of 2001, Greater Glasgow NHS Board carried out a survey of attendances at adult accident and emergency units. The data collected over that period indicated that the number of patients who used public transport to attend accident and emergency units was less than one in 10 patients. It is, however, of paramount importance that all current transport systems and travelling patterns are fully analysed against the new acute services configuration proposals to identify and address any mismatches. This will be essential in underpinning the plans in their entirety. As I said during the parliamentary debate on 12 September, the NHS board has commissioned work to assess the broader transport implications of its future acute services configuration for staff, patients and visitors. The results of that work will be available later this month. I expect the NHS board to fully involve local communities in any changes to transport arrangements.

Information on the Warm Deal as administered by local authorities is collected by authorities on a local authority basis, as set out in my answer to question S1W-29847 today. However, information on the Warm Deal as administered by Eaga is not collected by local authority area.Details of the total number of households benefiting from the Warm Deal as administered by Eaga is set out in two reports to Parliament: Benefits from Home Energy Efficiency Schemes in Scotland: 1999/2000 and Benefits from the Warm Deal in Scotland: 2000/2001. Copies of both reports are in the Parliament's Reference Centre. A report on the Warm Deal, and the central heating programme, for 2001-02 will be published later this year.

Local authority tenants are not required to apply for a grant under the Warm Deal as administered by their landlords. The authorities identify the dwellings which can benefit from the Warm Deal and arrange the programmes of work. The new Warm Deal was introduced in 1999. The number of tenants who have benefited from the scheme since its introduction and the end of financial year 2001-02 is as set out in the following table:The Warm Deal for Local Authorities 1999-2000 to 2001-02

Council	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02
Aberdeen	672	672	256
Aberdeenshire	925	1,001	1,405
Angus	580	720	817
Argyll and Bute	433	1,174	730
Clackmanannshire	636	632	324
Dumfries and Galloway	398	469	492
Dundee City	496	550	534
East Ayrshire	887	1,148	421
East Dunbarton	261	1,164	859
East Lothian	343	367	333
East Renfrew	274	209	145
Edinburgh	800	779	570
Falkirk	694	535	187
Fife	2,787	741	915
Glasgow City	2,809	3,128	1,570
Highland	255	532	288
Inverclyde	1,511	1,127	1,927
Midlothian	322	225	164
Moray	484	200	92
North Ayrshire	1,268	1,274	1,281
North Lanarkshire	832	1,128	1,428
Orkney	78	114	31
Perth and Kinross	0	0	0
Renfrewshire	586	606	625
Scottish Borders	414	505	446
Shetland	74	75	83
South Ayrshire	857	904	947
South Lanarkshire	1,410	1,161	636
Stirling	291	670	303
West Dunbarton	1,011	420	342
West Lothian	124	319	382
Western Isles	83	111	16
Total	22,595	22,660	18,549