The only Executive funding specified for improvement services, however, is the budget allocated to the Local Government Improvement Service. The Improvement Service was officially launched in April 2005 and its funding levels over the next three years have been set as: £1,700,000 in 2005-06;£1,655,000 in 2006-07, and£1,256,000 in 2007-08.The Improvement Ser...