Current status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 27 November 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for (a) maintaining existing and (b) building new sports facilities in Orkney to accommodate teams that use the area as a training base in the lead-up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
It is a statutoryresponsibility of local authorities to provide adequate sporting facilities intheir area, maintaining existing facilities and building new facilities asdictated by the needs of the community.
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.