To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what estimate her Department has made of the likely reduction in lottery funding for grass-roots sport in Scotland due to the funding requirement of the 2012 Olympics. (134133)

Lottery money has always paid for a very wide range of sport projects from kit for local teams to investments in major stadia and sports halls. There is no accepted definition of what constitutes “grass roots” investment or otherwise in this range.