- 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 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 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 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: 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: 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.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 October 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 16 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10185 by Hugh Henry on 11 October 2004, whether it can give specific dates when it will complete its consideration of the responses to the consultation on a Scottish human rights commission and deliver its commitment to establish a commission.
Answer
The Executive is fully committed to the creation of a Scottish Human Rights Commission within the lifetime of this Parliament. We are making the necessary progress on detailed consideration of all aspects of policy, including follow up on the consultation responses, in accordance with this timescale.
- Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Colin Boyd on 16 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-5226 by Colin Boyd QC on 13 January 2004, whether all the cataloguing of relevant material regarding the shooting at Dunblane school has now been completed by the officials of the National Archives of Scotland and whether the papers are available to the public.
Answer
Officials from the National Archives of Scotland (NAS) completed the cataloguing process in February 2004 in accordance with NAS business objectives.
The relevant documents were transferred to Crown Office in March 2004 in order that they could be reviewed in detail by Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service officials to allow me to determine what of the material can be released in its entirety, what can be released in an edited format to “anonymise” data and what is unsuitable for release.
The review and editing process has been a lengthy, complex and detailed one, necessitating the removal from documents of the names of living individuals and replacing with individual designations, such as “Witness 1” or “Child A” to preserve anonymity but ensure that the edited documents would still makes sense to any reader. Removing an individual’s name may, in somedocuments, not preserve anonymity, so it is also necessary to consider whether redaction of names is sufficient in each case. It will not be possible for each and every document to be released, even in an edited manner.
The process is nearing completion and it is anticipated that material will be available to the public at NAS in early 2005.
