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Sports: Scotland

Volume 459: debated on Wednesday 2 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much National Lottery money was paid to sports-based causes in Scotland via distributors other than SportScotland in each of the last five years. (134698)

The Big Lottery Fund has supplied the following information about grants to physical activity and sport by it and its predecessor bodies. The information covers the last five complete financial years.

£

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Total

Active Futures

0

0

0

927,246

3,901,081

4,828,327

NOPES Activities

0

33,569,056

1,276,043

0

0

34,845,099

NOPES Facilities

2,910,336

4,119,865

27,980,074

13,852,510

0

48,862,785

Young Peoples Fund

0

0

0

0

1,111,482

1,111,482

Awards for All

0

0

250,000

250,000

500,000

1,000,000

School Sports Coordinators1

0

0

940,000

930,000

930,000

2,800,000

Youth Football2

0

0

0

0

1,500,000

1,500,000

Total

2,910,336

37,688,921

30,446,117

15,959,756

7,942,563

94,947,693

1 Grant administered and delivered by Sport Scotland 2 Grant administered by Sport Scotland and delivered by the Scottish Football Association.

UK Sport has supplied the following information about grants in Scotland in each of the last five completed financial years. The figures given include grants to athletes who represent Scotland, to non governmental bodies based in Scotland and to sport events which could have benefited Scotland.

£

2002-03

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Total

Athlete

580,028

551,908

533,190

441,546

725,421

2,832,093

NGB

247,931

300,456

371,627

533,406

318,380

1,771,800

Events

376,908

311,935

272,040

70,000

100,000

1,130,883

Total

1,204,867

1,164,299

1,176,857

1,044,952

1,143,801

5,734,776