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The data sources which the Executive use for income analysis are the Department for Work and Pensions' Family Resources Survey and the derived Households Below Average Income analysis. The sample size is not large enough to allow analysis below Scotland level.

East Dunbartonshire Council is not one of the 12 councils participating in the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund.

Allocations have been sought and resources awarded to East Dunbartonshire Council as follows:

	1998-99	1999-2000		2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	£ million
Public Transport Fund
Awarded (3 projects)	-	-		-	0.150	0.100	1.026	1.121	2.001
Rejected (2 projects)	-	-		0.200	1.300	0.240	-	-	-
Cycling, Walking and Safer Streets1
Awarded	-		-	0.114	0.066	0.101	0.176	-	-
Rural Public Passenger Transport Grant2
Awarded	0.030		0.030	0.032	0.041	0.042	0.047	-	-
Rural Community Transport Initiative
Rejected(1 project)	0.030		0.001	-	-	-	-	-	-

Note:1. Grant is paid on a formula allocation basis to all local authorities in Scotland.2. Grant is paid on a formula allocation basis to all local authorities in Scotland, with the exception of City of Aberdeen Council, City of Dundee Council, City of Edinburgh Council, and City of Glasgow Council. Since Strathclyde Passenger Transport (SPT) is responsible for securing public passenger transport within the East Dunbartonshire area, East Dunbartonshire Council has mandated payment of the grant shown to SPT.In addition, the Scottish Executive is currently considering an application to the Integrated Transport Fund from a consortium of partners which will involve the funding of pilot projects for travel behaviour change in Aberdeenshire, East Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire.

The costs of rehabilitation are met through local authorities' Grant-aided expenditure (GAE). Additional funding of £147,00 per annum has been included within East Dunbartonshire's GAE line for drugs-specific rehabilitation for the period 2001-02 to 2003-04.Funding for drugs education is met within overall education budgets. However, an additional £25,000 has been made available to East Dunbartonshire Education Department for this purpose for 2001-02 and for 2002-03.

Additional funding of £157,000 from the Changing Children's Services Fund has been made available to East Dunbartonshire Council over the period 2001-02 to 2003-04 for drug-related work with young people and families.

Funding for treatment services is allocated to NHS boards. East Dunbartonshire falls within the Greater Glasgow NHS Board area. The following table details the funding made available for drug-specific treatment services allocated to Greater Glasgow NHS Board from 1998-99. Funding for drugs services prior to 1998-99 was arranged by contract between the Common Services Agency and individual boards and the information is not available centrally.

NHS Board	Allocation 1998-99(£000)	Allocation 1999-2000(£000)	Allocation2000-01(£000)	Allocation2001-02(£000)	Allocation2002-03(£000)
Greater Glasgow*	2,871	3,502	3,670	4,387	4,488

Note:*Funding does not include additional resources of £250,000 allocated to Greater Glasgow NHS Board in 2001-02 or £500,000 in 2002-03 to meet the treatment costs of the Glasgow Drug Court pilot.

The information requested is not held centrally. The provision of chiropody services is the responsibility of local NHS systems who will consider the needs of older people when planning and developing local services.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33076 today. 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.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-33074 today. 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.

The information, which is published in the Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey (SVDLS), is set out in the tables. Area of Vacant and Derelict Land (ha), 1995-2001^1-2

Area	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
East Dunbartonshire Council	104	109	113	109	100	94	94
East Renfrewshire Council	36	50	54	42	37	33	32
Scotland3	13,721	13,101	12,470	12,212	11,608	11,233	10,517

Area of Vacant and Derelict Land (ha), 1993-194⁴

Area	1993	1994
Bearsden and Milngavie District Council	45	28
Strathkelvin District Council	270	254
Eastwood District Council	26	22
Renfrew District Council	464	385
Scotland	15,400	14,094

Notes:1. Sites covering less than 0.1 ha are excluded.2. The SVDLS includes only that vacant land which is either located within an urban settlement (with a population of 2,000 or more) or which is located within 1km of such settlements, and which would commonly be considered as having the characteristics of urban vacant land.3. For those councils that did not provide data for a particular year, data from the previous SVDLS has been used. Previously published figures for 1999-2001 have been revised on the basis of recent council returns.4. Figures are not available for East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire in 1993 and 1994 as these councils did not exist before the reorganisation of local government in 1996. As part of the 1995 survey (which was published in 1996), councils were asked to provide figures for 1995 for the new council areas. The present East Dunbartonshire Council area comprises the former Bearsden and Milngavie District and part of the former Strathkelvin District. East Renfrewshire Council area comprises the former Eastwood District and part of the former Renfrew District. The table shows the area, in hectares, of vacant and derelict land in these districts in 1993 and 1994.Copies of the 1993, 1994, 1995 and the 2001 (which contains figures for 1996 to 2001 inclusive) Surveys are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. numbers 25952, 25953, 25954, and 20466 respectively).