The figures are taken from the Local Financial Return (LFR)(Social Work) and are therefore not comparable with the provisional outturn andbudget estimates information used to answer qusetion S2W-1802 on 27 August 2003.Net Revenue Expenditure1(£000) Social Work Older People2 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 Scotland 246,286 263,949 302,662 293,548 316,130 Aberdeen City 4,667 3,253 13,418 13,412 14,643 Aberdeenshire 8,500 10,796 11,717 12,619 13,219 Angus 7,305 8,175 7,967 6,919 8,019 Argyll and Bute 5,807 5,252 5,056 6,297 7,119 Clackmannanshire 1,181 1,873 2,938 1,889 2,623 Dumfries and Galloway 8,189 8,020 8,583 7,941 7,857 Dundee City 9,470 9,183 8,666 8,941 9,152 East Ayrshire 5,556 5,696 5,526 5,684 6,008 East Dunbartonshire 480 591 541 836 643 East Lothian 4,409 5,127 4,934 4,491 4,751 East Renfrewshire 3,263 3,642 4,482 4,759 5,535 Edinburgh, City of 18,134 16,260 16,218 17,497 19,380 Eilean Siar 3,365 3,721 3,852 3,842 4,094 Falkirk 5,037 9,431 9,363 9,380 10,606 Fife 16,299 18,484 18,842 18,766 20,361 Glasgow, City of3 43,333 44,964 60,634 44,959 46,835 Highland 9,824 13,391 16,064 17,764 17,895 Inverclyde 4,100 4,663 5,034 5,025 5,547 Midlothian 3,645 3,116 3,654 3,878 3,826 Moray 4,891 4,352 4,952 5,707 5,056 North Ayrshire 5,296 5,707 6,173 6,408 7,526 North Lanarkshire 16,385 16,879 18,610 20,463 21,541 Orkney Islands 1,623 1,853 2,037 2,081 2,288 Perth and Kinross 6,728 5,952 7,500 7,056 8,003 Renfrewshire 8,841 9,366 8,564 10,240 10,731 Scottish Borders 5,862 6,367 5,931 5,750 6,080 Shetland Islands 1,228 1,321 1,192 1,525 2,147 South Ayrshire 5,388 6,736 8,068 7,952 8,793 South Lanarkshire 12,467 13,402 13,489 13,908 16,630 Stirling 2,794 3,156 3,570 3,697 2,974 West Dunbartonshire 6,233 7,049 7,516 7,295 8,361 West Lothian 6,231 6,213 6,767 6,207 8,274 Source: As reported by localauthorities on LFR3 (Social Work) returns to the Executive.