Key corporate financial targets are set out annually in the Board's Corporate Plan. Performance against those targets for the year to 31 March 2002 was:

item	Target £000	Actual £000
Budgets (not to be exceeded)
– total expenditure	40,659	39,492
– expenditure on running costs	6,181	6,299
– Quality Assurance – net cost	1,390	1,242
External partnership funding (to be maximised)	3,292	3,210

The figures above are disclosed in accordance with Scottish Executive guidelines and are therefore not directly comparable to figures shown in these accounts.