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The Scottish Executive is funding a national development officer for Play@Home, a physical activity programme for children from birth to five years. This programme provides parents with guidance on safe and beneficial ways of handling a child to stimulate motor and sensory development within the home. Funding will support all NHS boards to train health visitors in the use of this resource.

In addition, NHS Health Scotland’s resource the Ready, Steady, Baby Book for new parents and children up to the age of three has been updated to include more information about physical activity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

 

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.

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.

I refer the member to questionS2W-15112 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.

I refer the member to question S2W-15112 on 17 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.