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I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12017, answered on 19 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.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12465, answered on 7 December 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.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12457, answered on 7 December 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.

I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-12017, answered on 19 November 2004. All answers to written 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 Scottish Executive has published the Cultural Commission’s Work Plan, which contains details of the Commission’s budget, copies of which are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 34513). The Executive intends to publish a statement of expenditure against budget in due course.

This is an operational matter for the Cultural Commission. However, the member may wish to consult the Cultural Commission’s Work Plan, copies of which are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 34513).

Annual development grant aid is provided by sportscotland to governing bodies of sport in Scotland. This information is published in sportscotland’s Annual Reports. The report is laid annually before Parliament and copies can be obtained from the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 34386 – A Running Commentary) or accessed online via sportscotland’s website, www.sportscotland.org.uk.

If the member wishes information about a specific body or category of body, sportscotland would be pleased to assist if it can.

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.

This is an operational matter for the Scottish Arts Council. The information requested is not held centrally.

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.