- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 6 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation took place prior to the decision in respect of the location of the National Theatre; who was consulted, and whether it will publish the outcome of the consultation.
Answer
Scottish ministers’ decision to name the Arts Factory in Greater Easterhouse as the preferred location for the National Theatre of Scotland administrative office followed discussions with the Scottish Arts Council and City of Glasgow Council. The location was chosen both for pragmatic reasons and in symbolic recognition of the significant part that the arts can play in the economic, social and cultural regeneration of disadvantaged communities.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 1 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what targets it has set in respect of school pupils learning to swim.
Answer
The primary responsibility for the delivery and management of swimming provision within the curriculum rests with local authorities.
However, in 2002 an audit of swimming provision in schools was conducted in order to gather information on the level of provision for swimming lessons made by Scottish schools in 2001-02. In response to this report, the Scottish Executive commissioned Learning and Teaching Scotland to further investigate local authority provision for swimming and to identify barriers to swimmingprovision and suggest solutions to education authorities through good practice case studies. The report of this work will be published and distributed to education authorities in December 2004.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 30 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many swimming pools over 25 years old (a) have been refurbished in the last two years and (b) are due to be refurbished in the next two years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 30 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people used local authority swimming pools in each of the last five years.
Answer
Information on the number of people using local authority swimming pools is not available nationally.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 30 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authority swimming pools there are, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the table. It does not include swimming pools attached to schools.
| Local Authority | Number of Pools |
| Aberdeen City | 7 |
| Aberdeenshire | 8 |
| Angus | 5 |
| Argyll and Bute | 3 |
| City of Edinburgh | 10 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 1 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 4 |
| Dundee City | 2 |
| East Ayrshire | 1 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 2 |
| East Lothian | 5 |
| East Renfrewshire | 3 |
| Falkirk | 3 |
| Fife | 9 |
| Glasgow City | 13 |
| Highland | 13 |
| Inverclyde | 2 |
| Midlothian | 4 |
| Moray | 3 |
| North Ayrshire | 4 |
| North Lanarkshire | 8 |
| Orkney Islands | 1 |
| Perth and Kinross | 4 |
| Renfrewshire | 5 |
| Scottish Borders | 7 |
| Shetland | 8 |
| South Ayrshire | 5 |
| South Lanarkshire | 7 |
| Stirling | 2 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 3 |
| West Lothian | 7 |
| Scotland | 160 |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 30 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school swimming pools there are in each local authority area and how many of these are open to the public outside school hours.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to S2W-11318 answered on 3 November 2004. 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.
The 196 swimming pools broken down by local authority area are noted in the table. Information on how many of the pools are open to the public outside school hours is not held centrally.
| Local Authority | Number of Pools |
| Aberdeen City | 16 |
| Aberdeenshire | 11 |
| Angus | 3 |
| Argyll and Bute | 2 |
| City of Edinburgh | 26 |
| Clackmannanshire | 3 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 7 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3 |
| Dundee City | 7 |
| East Ayrshire | 3 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 3 |
| East Lothian | 3 |
| East Renfrewshire | 2 |
| Falkirk | 5 |
| Fife | 14 |
| Glasgow City | 13 |
| Highland | 8 |
| Inverclyde | 4 |
| Midlothian | 4 |
| Moray | 4 |
| North Ayrshire | 1 |
| North Lanarkshire | 12 |
| Orkney Islands | 6 |
| Perth and Kinross | 5 |
| Renfrewshire | 3 |
| Scottish Borders | 1 |
| Shetland | 3 |
| South Ayrshire | 0 |
| South Lanarkshire | 3 |
| Stirling | 6 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 2 |
| West Lothian | 13 |
| Scotland | 196 |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 30 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans there are to bid for the hosting of international swimming events in the next five years and which events it plans to bid for.
Answer
EventScotland was established to deliver a portfolio of major events to attract visitors to Scotland as well as enhancing our international profile. Although at an early stage, EventScotland is currently looking at the possibility of attracting the European Short Course Swimming Championships to Scotland in the future, as part of our ambition for Scotland to become one of the world’s foremost events destinations by 2015.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 19 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-8237 by Mr Frank McAveety on 11 June 2004, whether the Cultural Commission’s budget has been confirmed and, if so, how much it will be and from which budget it will be allocated.
Answer
I can confirm that the Cultural Commission’s budget has been set at £487,000. We expect to commit £400,000 of this from programme expenditure, and the remainder from the Executive’s Administration Budget.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 19 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what recruitment process was followed for the appointment of staff to the Cultural Commission’s secretariat; whether any of the posts were publicly advertised and, if so, which posts.
Answer
The secretariat comprises two Scottish Executive secondees and two consultants. The Executive canvassed internally to fill the two secondment opportunities; none of the appointments was advertised externally. The Cultural Commission’s Chairman appointed consultants with the necessary mix of skills, who could rapidly take forward the requirements of the commission’s work plan.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 18 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what assistance it is providing to theatre.
Answer
Executive support for theatre, as for all art-forms, is largely channelled through the Scottish Arts Council (SAC). The total SAC drama budget for 2004-05 is £12,792,900. This includes initial funding of £3.5 million for the National Theatre of Scotland for which further funding of £4 million per year up to and including year 2008-09 has been identified.
