The Scottish Executive target is that 8,500 elderly households in the private sector should receive central heating by 31 March 2003 and by 31 March 2006 a total of 40,000 households should benefit.On 24 February 2003, the Scottish Executive announced allocations to local authorities totalling £7.5 million that will ensure that all local authority stock which lacks central heating should have it by 31 March 2004, with the exception of Glasgow, where the programme will be completed by Glasgow Housing Association within four years of the stock transfer.