A further LOA covering the second and third years is required to be submitted and approved by 1 July 2002.Two local authorities submitted LOAs which fell short of fully meeting the requirements of the fund - Inverclyde and Dumfries and Galloway - but, after consideration, we agreed to provide first year funding (£2 million and £0.6 million respectively), on condition that revised LOAs were approved by 1 April 2002.We were unable to confirm the allocations for North Ayrshire (£1.5 million), Argyll and Bute (£0.6 million), and Eilean Siar (£0.3 million), because the LOAs they submitted do not yet meet the requirements of the fund.