- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2005
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Answered by Peter Peacock on 17 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to promote Gaelic in the European Union (EU) with a view to enabling it to achieve a status similar to that of Catalan, Galician and Basque following the agreement between Spain and the EU.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-20525 on 17 November 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 17 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has held any discussions with the UK Government, during its Presidency of the European Union, to enable Gaelic to be used in correspondence with certain EU institutions and, if so, when such discussions took place and what the outcome was.
Answer
The Scottish Executive is committed to the promotion of Gaelic and securing its status in a wide range of contexts in Scotland. The decision to allow Gaelic to be recognised and used in correspondence with EU institutions is a matter for the UK government and we understand that the UK government has no current plans to change the existing language provisions for UK languages. There have not been formal discussions during the UK presidency of the EU between the Scottish Executive and the UK government on this matter.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2005
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Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 25 October 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made by sportscotland in achieving its targets set out in Sport 21 that by 2020 (a) 80% of primary school children will be physically active, (b) 85% of those aged 13 to 17 years will take part in sport, in addition to the school curriculum, more than once a week, (c) progress will be made toward children taking part in at least two hours of high-quality physical education classes a week, (d) 49% of those aged 14 and over living in Social Inclusion Partnership areas will be taking part in sport at least once a week, (e) over 1 million Scots will play sport as members of clubs and (f) Scotland will sustain 150,000 volunteers who are contributing to the development and delivery of Scottish sport and how sportscotland is monitoring progress made on these targets.
Answer
The targets referred to are set to be achieved by 2007. Information from
sportscotland on progress towards meeting the targets is set out in the following table below. Further information can on Sport 21 can be found on
sportscotland’s website:
http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/ChannelNavigation/Our+activities/TopicNavigation/Sport+21/
| Target | Progress | Monitoring process |
| 80% of primary school children will be physically active | Information not available until later in 2005 to be measured against baseline of 78% for boys and 66% for girls | Monitored through the Scottish Health Survey |
| 85% of those aged 13 to 17 years will take part in sport, in addition to the school curriculum, more than once a week | 72% for 2003-04 against a baseline of 79% | Monitored through the Scottish Opinion Survey |
| progress will be made toward children taking part in at least two hours of high-quality physical education classes a week | Baseline data on level of provision of physical education not available until end of 2005. | HMIE to monitor progress as part of future inspection process |
| 49% of those aged 14 and over living in Social Inclusion Partnership areas will be taking part in sport at least once a week | 40% for 2003-04 against a baseline of 46% | Monitored through the Scottish Opinion Survey |
| over 1 million Scots will play sport as members of clubs | 957,000 in 2003-04 against a baseline of 926,000 | Monitored through the Scottish Opinion Survey |
| Scotland will sustain 150,000 volunteers who are contributing to the development and delivery of Scottish sport | 134,600 regular volunteers against a baseline of 150-160,000 | Monitored through the Scottish Opinion Survey |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 28 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much financial assistance the Scottish Institute of Sport received from the sportscotland Lottery Sports Fund in 2001-02 and 2002-03.
Answer
In 2001-02 and 2002-03 the Scottish Institute of Sport claimed £2,456,811 and £3,384,000 respectively from the sportscotland Lottery Sports Fund.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 28 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18145 by Patricia Ferguson on 24 August 2005, why the funding for Building for Scotland – Community Facility Strand in 2004-05 was £4,422,790 less than that spent on Sports Facilities – School and Community Strand, Sports Facilities – Local Facilities Strand and Sports Facilities – Swimming Pool Upgrade Strand in 2003-04 and where the shortfall has been reallocated.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. I have, however, asked the Chair of sportscotland to write to the member with the information that they have available.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 28 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what projects have been undertaken and invested in by sportscotland in the (a) Sports Facilities – School and Community Strand, (b) Sports Facilities – Local Facilities Strand, (c) Sports Facilities – Swimming Pool Upgrade Strand and (d) Building for Sport – Community Facility Strand in each year since 2000.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. I have, however, asked the Chair of sportscotland to write to the member with the information that they have available.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 27 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much lottery support was awarded to football-specific projects in each year from 2002-03 to 2004-05, giving details of each project and the amount awarded in each case.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. I have, however, asked the Chair of sportscotland to write tothe member with the information that they have available.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 September 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 27 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much lottery support was awarded to football-specific projects in each year from 1997-98 to 2001-02, giving details of each project and the amount awarded in each case.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. I have, however, asked the Chair of sportscotland to write tothe member with the information that they have available.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 August 2005
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Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 21 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much of the £1,080,300, referred to in its press release dated 15 August 2005 entitled "Investment for Melbourne 2006", is new money and how much has come from existing budgets and under which headings.
Answer
The £1,080,300 is a new allocation from existing budgets specifically for athlete support ahead of Melbourne 2006. It is a combination of £775,300 from the Lottery Sports Fund and £305,000 from
sportscotland’s Exchequer funding from the Executive.
In addition to that funding, sportscotland announced a 10% increase in its annual grant to the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland and that 11 sports have been awarded £185,922 from the Lottery Sports Fund to enhance their Games medal potential.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 August 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 20 September 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how much financial assistance has been given to (a) badminton, (b) bowls, (c) boxing, (d) squash, (e) triathlon, (f) table tennis and (g) weightlifting in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is published in
sportscotland’s annual reports and Lottery Fund annual reports, copies of which have been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 11114, 16964, 24679, 29689 and 34386 for the annual reports and Bib. numbers 9761, 17131, 24952, 29688 and 37441 for the lottery fund annual reports). The reports for 2004-05 are being prepared and copies will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre in due course. Copies of the documents can also be found on
sportscotland’s website at:
www.sportscotland.org.uk.
