In addition to the Working Group on Information Technology to Support Shared Care in Diabetes and the Priorities and Planning Guidance which I mentioned in my reply to S1W-7459.Committed expenditure of £25,000 to pilot a Scottish Diabetes SurveyCommitted expenditure of more than £200,000 to fund three Diabetes IT System Demonstrator Sites in Tayside, Grampian and Lanarkshire, which will show how IT can support clinicians and improve care to diabetic patients.Given a grant of £214,000 to a two-year project which started in January 1999 extending the Diabetes Audit and Research in Tayside Scotland (DARTS) project - "The clinical effectiveness of diabetes care in Scotland: Use of innovative IT designed to implement the SIGN guidelines and St Vincent Declaration".Funded a three-year Royal College of General Practitioners programme...