21.   Most local authorities now have a research and intelligence unit to collect and analyse information on their areas.

22.   Now authorities are having to monitor landfill sites, a process which is expensive and lengthy.

23.   One other authority has a joint budget with the health authority, funding a crossroads care attendant scheme and health care assistants.

24.   Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes, whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision.

25.   Tax authorities have to try to stop such fiddling.

26.   The outstanding issue is using the resources that the police authority has effectively.

27.   The question is whether domestic competition-policy authorities have the capacity to pursue the issue.

28.   Then the authority has to Decide for one of the two or more acceptable options.