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Executive and lottery funding for sports governing bodies in Scotland is routed through sportscotland as the national agency for the development of sport in Scotland and it is therefore wholly appropriate that funding for the action plan is also routed through sportscotland.Some of the funding may be allocated to bodies other than the SFA.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 March 2002
The Scottish University for Industry administers the Capital Modernisation Fund (CMF) support for learning centre development on behalf of the Executive.
That applies to children of normal development. If we were talking about a developmentally delayed group, we would need to take each child individually.
If you have done so, are you trying to ensure that the area tourist boards will be funded directly? Councils cannot afford to fund the extra activities that are being taken on board.
Last Friday, along with Cathie Craigie, I visited St Maurice's high school in Cumbernauld, where there is a fantastic games hall that has been funded jointly by the Big Lottery Fund, sportscotland, the Scottish Executive and the local authority.
That investment represents an increase of more than 27 per cent on expenditure in 2003-04 and is the highest level of funding in Argyll and Bute for a decade.
There is also provision to direct funds raised by the regulator from the Scottish renewables obligation into the Scottish consolidated fund to be used for promoting renewable energy in Scotland.
However, for the public record, I will state that ministers should have considerable influence in that decision as a result of the significant public funding that goes into the SAC. We need to ensure that we receive best value for that funding, so I am firmly of the opinion that ministers need to be satisfied that an...