Communities Scotland was disbanded on 1 April 2008, when most of its responsibilities transferred to the Housing and Regeneration directorate of the Scottish Government.
[2] On 31 October 2007 Nicola Sturgeon, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, announced that she had decided to abolish Communities Scotland as a separate agency and bring its main non-regulatory functions into the core Scottish Government.
She confirmed that its regulatory functions would be reformed to operate outside the Government and independently of Ministers.
[3] The Agency had five stated objectives: Communities Scotland was granted a budget of £800 million in 2006–07.
[5] It provided grants to individuals, organisations and local authorities in Scotland for housing and community projects.