- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 13 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken to increase participation in physical activity by children (a) with a disability and (b) from ethnic minority groups.
Answer
We are seeking to ensure that every child in Scotland has access to services to support them in being active enough to meet the minimum activity level required for health. The Executive has invested £24 million in Active Schools and over 600 Active School Co-ordinators will be recruited by 2007, with some of these in special educational needs schools. They will increase the levels of activity among school aged children, irrespective of ethnicity or ability, by developing programmes of high quality opportunities to enable them to participate in regular, frequent, safe and fun activities incorporating physical activity, sport, play and active travel.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 12 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it has taken on its commitment to monitor and evaluate whether sport programmes are high-quality and effective and cover all the agencies involved, as referred to in Let's Make Scotland More Active.
Answer
The Executive is committed to the continuous evaluation and monitoring of programmes to ensure that they are effective and are of high quality.
Sportscotland has developed an Evaluation Strategy which aims to:
ensure that adequate systems are in place to evaluate sportscotland’s investments in sport in Scotland;
ensure that the work of sportscotland is informed by sound, objective and independent evaluations;
ensure that necessary resources and experience are available to evaluate the functions of sportscotland, and
outline an initial plan for evaluating sportscotland’s investment in sport for 2003-07.
Integral monitoring and evaluation of Active Schools arrangements will focus on the number of teachers, coaches and leaders involved in delivery and participation numbers across all age groups. An independent evaluation has also been commissioned.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 11 April 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what action has been taken to provide clear advice and better support for teachers to develop their confidence and skills in teaching physical education, as referred to in Let's Make Scotland More Active.
Answer
The Physical Education Review Group (PERG) was set up by Scottish ministers as a direct result of the recommendations in
Let’s Make Scotland More Active. In my response to the PERG report, I set out my three key aims for physical education: to provide more time, more teachers and more choice.
Within the wider programme of achieving these key aims, Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) held four regional seminars in March, for local authorities and schools, to raise awareness of the PERG report and my commitment to two hours of PE. The seminars provided a platform to: discuss the key issues; demonstrate a few examples of good practice, and encourage schools to start developing solutions to meet local circumstances. LTS will now build on this by working with HMIe to gather and disseminate best practice delivery of two hours quality and progressive PE programmes. We have also begun discussions with providers of continuous professional development to provide additional opportunities for primary teachers to enhance their qualifications to support more physical activity in schools.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 24 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the number of fraudulent sales of tickets for football matches and convictions for ticket touting at football matches.
Answer
Touting is an offence under Section 55 of the Civic Government Act 1982, but there is no specific offence of ticket touting at football matches.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 22 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the £230 million investment in new sports facilities.
Answer
The Executive and
sportscotland has awarded £49.5 million to the 10 successful bids made under the National and Regional Sports Facilities Strategy. This contribution, along with that from the funding partners, will see a total investment of up to £230 million in new and refurbished sports facilities in Scotland if all 10 projects are taken forward and completed as planned. The following table sets out the breakdown of investment for each project.
| Lead Applicant Project | Contribution from | | |
| | Exchequer and Lottery Sports Fund | Lead Applicant and its other Funding Partners | Expected Completion Date |
| Falkirk Council Westfield Stadium | £3,000,000 | £5,000000 | March 2007 |
| Stirling Council: Forthbank | £2,500,000 | £18,500000 | October 2007 |
| City of Edinburgh Council: Sighthill Park | £7,000,000 | £44,000,000 | May 2009 |
| Hunters Hall | £6,000,000 | £26,000,000 | May 2009 |
| Royal Commonwealth Pool | £4,000,000 | £27,000,000 | January 2009 |
| Aberdeen City Council: Linksfield | £5,000,000 | £17,000,000 | October 2008 |
| Glasgow City Council: East End | £9,500,000 | £15,000,000 | March 2009 |
| Scotstoun | £4,500,000 | £7,000,000 | May 2007 |
| Toryglen | £3,000,000 | £8,000,000 | September 2007 |
| North Lanarkshire Council Ravenscraig | £5,000,000 | £13,000,000 | August 2007 |
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 22 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have secured funding for projects under the National Facilities Strategy; how much funding each project has received, and what the timescale is for completion of each project.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-15179 on 22 March 2005. 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.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children over 14 in social inclusion partnership areas took part in sport at least once per week in each of the last three years.
Answer
Data collection for these participationlevels are not specifically for children over 14 but for all children
andadults over 14 to help measure the related target in Sport 21 2003-2007. This commencedin April 2003 when Sport 21 took effect. Therefore, the earliest collated figures available here cover the period April 2003 toJune 2004 where the average participation level was 42%. The rolling average uptill the end of 2004 will not be available until summer 2005, and will be reportedto the Sport 21 National Implementation Forum in October 2005. Thereafter, figureswill be posted on
sportscotland’s website
www.sportscotland.org.uk.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people aged 17 to 24 took part in sport at least twice a week in each of the last three years and how this was measured.
Answer
Data collected as part of theomnibus household survey, the Scottish Opinion Survey, are used by
sportscotlandto produce their annual reports on sports participation in Scotland. Becausethe sub-sample sizes for many individual sports are relatively small,
sportscotlanduse the data from the three previous years for each annual report. This increasesthe sub-sample sizes, thereby reducing the sampling error for individual sportsto make the estimates of participation more reliable than they would be for a singleyear. To take account of the seasonality of participation in many sports, resultsfrom only the two most popular months of the year are used. The rolling average for 1999-2002(up to December 2002) was 48% and for 2000-03 (up to December 2003) was 45%. Whilstthis shows a decrease, we expect this to change once infrastructure developmentssuch as Active Schools are bedded in. Active Schools should lead to improved linksbetween schools and clubs (and tertiary education) and thus pathways for schoolleavers to continue their participation in sport with a club and/or in further education.Figures up to December 2004 will not be available until summer 2005, and will bereported to the Sport 21 National Implementation Forum in October 2005. Thereafter,figures will be posted on
sportscotland’s website
www.sportscotland.org.uk.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people aged 45 to 64 took part in sport at least twice a week in each of the last three years and how this was measured.
Answer
The rolling average for 1999-2002(up to December 2002) was 42% and for 2000-2003 (up to December 2003) was also 42%.That for 2004 will not be available until summer 2005, and will be reported to theSport 21 National Implementation Forum in October 2005. Thereafter, figures willbe posted on
sportscotland’s website
www.sportscotland.org.uk The method of measurement isthe same as that stated in the answer to question S2W-14291 on 17 March 2005. All answers towritten parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the searchfacility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2005
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 17 March 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of children aged 13 to 17 take part in sport outside the school curriculum and how this is measured.
Answer
The rolling average for 1999-2002(up to December 2002) was 78% and for 2000-2003 (up to December 2003) was 71.3%.Whilst this shows a decrease, we expect this to change once infrastructure developmentssuch as Active Schools are bedded in. Active Schools should lead to improved linksbetween schools and clubs (and tertiary education) and thus pathways for this agegroup to continue their participation in sport outside the school curriculum. Figuresup to December 2004 will not be available until summer 2005, and will be reportedto the Sport 21 National Implementation Forum in October 2005. Thereafter, figureswill be posted on
sportscotland’s website
www.sportscotland.org.uk The method of measurement isthe same as that stated in the answer to
question S2W-14291 on 17 March 2005. All answers to written parliamentary questions are availableon the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
