The Executive last publishedits progress against the 2002 Spending Review targets, including the sub-set containedwithin Closing the Opportunity Gap: Scottish Budget 2003-06, in the Annual Evaluation Report (AER) 2005-06, whichwas published in March 2004. Since then a formal agreement has been reached withthe Finance Committee (June 2005) that an AER would not be published in 2005 or2006.We intend to publish a furtherprogress report on these targets in autumn 2006, following the conclusion of the2002 Spending Review period (end March 2006), allowing the Executive time to collateand evaluate the information relating to those targets whose timeframes concludein March 2006.