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To ask the Scottish Executive what funding the Scottish Sports Council and the Scottish Arts Council have received from the National Lottery since the Lottery's inception.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding the Scottish Sports Council and the Scottish Arts Council have received from the National Lottery since the Lottery's inception.
I intend to write to all those who have an interest in how Area Tourist Boards are funded seeking their views. I will place a copy of our consultation letter in the Parliament's library.
We circulated 1,830 copies of the document to a range of public and private organisations in Scotland. Copies were placed in libraries across Scotland for information purposes.
I am concerned that we would be doing nobody any favours if, as the clerk's paper suggests, we recommended that Parliament reject the order. That would not be in Scotland's interests or in the interests of the national park.
We have taken soundings from Dermot Scott and Liz Holt of the European Parliament office in Scotland and the European Commission Representation in Scotland respectively on the logistics and financial costs of getting to Strasbourg.
We have taken soundings from Dermot Scott and Liz Holt of the European Parliament office in Scotland and the European Commission Representation in Scotland respectively on the logistics and financial costs of getting to Strasbourg.