A breakdown of SIP arts projectsacross local authority areas supported by the Scottish Arts Council’s Arts and SocialInclusion Scheme is listed below.

Scottish Arts Council SocialInclusion Scheme Grants

Project	Award
Alloa South And East SIP	45,283
Ballochgoy Social Inclusion Partnership - Step-Up Project	22,750
Blantyre and North Hamilton Social Inclusion Partnership	88,574
Clackmannanshire Strategic Alliance SIP	10,000
Glasgow Alliance - Big Step Care Leavers	64,617
Glasgow Alliance - East End Social Inclusion Partnership	3,300
Glasgow Alliance - Greater Easterhouse	150,000
Glasgow Alliance - Greater Govan SIP	70,000
Glasgow Alliance - Greater Pollock SIP	55,000
Glasgow Alliance - North Glasgow SIP	76,650
Gorbals Arts Strategy Group	55,189
Great Northern SIP (GNP)	20,000
Highlands and Islands Social Inclusion Partnership	39,340
Levern Valley Partnership	9,394
Paisley Partnership Regeneration Company	91,319
Penilee Social Inclusion Partnership (Glasgow)	13,400
Scottish Borders Social Inclusion Partnership	15,300
South Edinburgh Partnership	21,010
Tranent Social Inclusion Partnership	104,343
West Dunbartonshire Partnership	110,000
West Lothian Social Inclusion Partnership	15,955
Total	1,081,424

 

The Scottish Executive aims to ensure that Scottish artistic talent receives both national and international recognition. Our policy in this area is delivered principally by the Scottish Arts Council (SAC).

The SAC’s Visual Arts Department has supported a number of projects which involve international working, funding artists to work and exhibit abroad. The table details the level of SAC activity in this area in recent years:

Visual Arts International Activity

	2002	2003	2004
Total Number of Projects	38	48	89
Total Investment	£70,533	£126,842	£106,059

 

A high profile initiative in this period was the presentation of the first independent Scottish showcase at the 2003 Venice Biennale, one of the most significant events in the international calendar for cutting-edge contemporary art. There will also be a Scottish showcase at the 2005 Venice Biennale, presented by the SAC, the British Council Scotland and the National Galleries of Scotland.

In addition, the SAC is working in partnership with the British Council Scotland on some international initiatives and has created a shared post of head of international arts. Through this post the two organisations are developing an International Arts Strategy which it is hoped will be launched in the next few months.

The Scottish Arts Council’sArts and Social Inclusion Scheme ended in 2003. The council’s new LocalAuthority Partnership Fund will target areas of disadvantage with new artists-in-residenceprojects. Decisions on which areas will benefit from the new scheme are stillunder consideration.

The Executive’s culturalagency, the Scottish Arts Council, does not hold data of this description. the answer to S2W-14304 answered 1 March 2005, refers to the number of SocialInclusion Partnership arts projects which participated in the Scottish ArtsCouncil’s Social Inclusion scheme. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

The table below shows the numbers of graduates from physical education teacher training courses for the years 1998-99 to 2002-03 (the most recent year for which data are available at present).

Teacher Training Graduates in Secondary Level Physical Education 1998-99 to 2002-03

Year	Graduates1,2
1998-99	60
1999-2000	65
2000-01	60
2001-02	100
2002-03	95

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Notes:

1. All numbers have been rounded to the nearest five.

2. Includes Bachelor of Education (BEd) and Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) graduates from Scottish higher education institutions.

Precise projections are not available. However we would expect numbers to increase in this period, as we move towards meeting the recommendations arising from the PE Review. Both through increases in secondary initial teacher education courses in PE, and through specific additional training for existing primary teachers.

There have been no discussions between the Executive and the Ambassador Theatre Group in connection with the Theatre Royal, Glasgow.

The available information from the 2003 Teacher Census shows there are 92 full-time equivalent (FTE) primary teachers with physical education as their main subject taught and 9 with it as their other subject.

The previous teacher census was in 1998. The census is now being carried out annually. Comparative figures between 2003-04 and 2004-05 will not be available until the results of the 2004 census are published later this year.

The funding for Historic Scotland is as follows:

	2002-03 (£000) Actual	2003-04 (£000) Actual	2004-05 (£000) Actual	2005-06 (£000) Plans	2006-07 (£000) Plans	2007-08 (£000) Plans
Scottish Executive Funding	36,787	37,287	39,644	42,575	44,425	47,725

 

Based on the National Physical Activity Strategy definition of physical activity (see answer given to question S2W-14341 on 22 February 2005), all physicallyable primary school children should have been physically active in each of the last three years.

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.