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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider providing financial assistance for the removal of asbestos from the homes of pensioners who wish to apply for central heating under its central heating installation programme.
Tenants who have received assistance under rent guarantee/deposit schemes and meet all the eligibility criteria for the central heating programme are eligible for that programme.
Other programmes that assist the development of volunteering and community activity include the unemployed voluntary action fund and the ethnic minority grant scheme.
They have offered to give a brief presentation on their future work programme and how they envisage work in the social justice field will be developed over the next period.
The minister mentioned that rural petrol stations will be assisted. Page 167 of "The Scottish Budget" says that, between now and 2004, 15 rural petrol stations will be assisted.
In particular, your time-releasing targets, which predominantly concern the school building programme and the use of classroom assistants, were £10 million last year, with a target of £17 million for this year and £35 million for the year after.
The London challenge programme targeted those schools that were far below the floor target, provided expert assistance and brought major progress, which got steeper in the past couple of years, as members can see from the slide.