Current status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage competing nations to use Orkney as a training base in the lead-up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The ScottishGovernment would like as many teams as possible to base a training camp in Scotland prior to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. We will buildon work already being done to ensure as many Scottish facilities as possibleare used as training camps in the lead up to the London 2012 Games.
Furtherinformation on how we intend to ensure that all parts of Scotland benefit from the Commonwealth Games will bepublished for consultation within the first 100 days of winning the bid.