What the annual cost has been to each local authority of making deferred payments to care home residents in each year since the inception o…

Local authority allocations were increased by £3.5 million per year in 2002-03 to enable them to offer deferred payment agreements. The annual cost to each local authority of making these payments is not held. However, the survey conducted in June requested information on the current value of agreements in place at 30 June 2004. The table shows the information received.
Value of Deferred Payment Agreements as at 30 June 2004

| Value of Deferred Payment Agreements
(£)
| Value of Alternative Agreements
(£)

Aberdeen City
| 85,537
| 0

Aberdeenshire
| 0
| 5,764

Angus
| No return received
| No return received

Argyll and Bute
| 0
| 107,361

Clackmannanshire
| 0
| 0

Dumfries and Galloway
| No return received
| No return received

Dundee City
| 0
| 90,000

East Ayrshire
| 0
| No records held

East Dunbartonshire
| 0
| 8,850

East Lothian
| 0
| 34,000

East Renfrewshire
| 0
| No records held

Edinburgh, City of
| 13,573
| 0

Eilean Siar
| No return received
| No return received

Falkirk
| 3,540
| Not recorded

Fife
| 0
| 0

Glasgow City
| 0
| 623,500

Highland
| 0
| No records held

Inverclyde
| No return received
| No return received

Midlothian
| 0
| 0

Moray
| 0
| 8,452

North Ayrshire
| 0
| No records held

North Lanarkshire
| No return received
| No return received

Orkney Islands
| 127,952
| 0

Perth and Kinross
| 74,037
| 0

Renfrewshire
| No return received
| No return received

Scottis