The announcement confirms that those over 60 and disabled travellers who live in the capital would travel on the trams for free.

BBC: Tram on the test track at Gogar depot

"The fund is comparatively very small and is designed to support disabled people to live at home rather than in care homes, " he said.

BBC: Independent Living Fund to be shut down by 2015

If you make it harder for disabled people to live at home, it will cost more because more of them will have to be in hospitals and other places of full-time care.

BBC: Independent Living Fund to be shut down by 2015