Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
I promised to provide your Committee with further
information following my appearance at the oral evidence session
on The Potential Benefits for Scotland of the 2012 Olympics on
7 December. Please accept my apologies for the slight delay.
You will recall that I agreed to find out what
percentage of registered volunteers for the 2012 Games live in
Scotland (Q257). I can confirm that, as at 19 December 2005, approximately
77,500 people had registered an interest in becoming volunteers
for the 2012 Games. 1,023 of these people, or 1.32%, reside in
Scotland. At Annex A, I have segmented these Scottish registrations
by local authority, gender, ethnic diversity, age and disability.
I do hope that this is helpful.
In addition, I agreed to advise the Committee
as to how much the UK Government makes available for sport in
Scotland (Q263). You may be aware that sport is a devolved matter
and is therefore the responsibility of Scottish Ministers and
the Scottish Executive. However, UK Sport, a body funded by my
Department and the National Lottery, supports Scottish Olympic
and Paralympic athletes through its World Class Performance Programme
(WCPP). UK Sport is currently supporting a total of 434 British
Olympic and Paralympic athletes through WCPP. Thirty-four of these
athletes, or 7.83%, are Scottish. As you can imagine, it is rather
difficult to extrapolate the total amount of money that is spent
on Scottish athletes through this Programme. Much of the support
that Scottish athletes receive from WCPP will come through the
National Governing Bodies, which provide a range of services for
all of their athletes and will not cost them based on home country
nationality.
I do hope that this information is helpful to
your inquiry.
Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP
Minister for Sport
18 January 2006
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