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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

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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 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.

This information is not held centrally. In my response to the PE Review Group report of June 2004, I outlined a 10 point action plan for taking forward the group’s recommendation. This work includes the gathering of baseline data, against which we will monitor the delivery of two hours quality PE in schools, and officials are exploring how this might be best achieved.

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 .

In their 2003 strategy for physical activity, the Physical Activity Task Force defined physical activity as “a broad term to describe movement of the body that uses energy”, which can refer to any activity involving movement including walking, housework, manual labour and so on. This strategy was fully accepted by ministers, and has provided the basis for work in this area since then.

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

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Scottish Development International and Scottish Enterprise's Digital Media and Creative Industries Team are actively promoting the games animation industry internationally as part of their overall work for the creative industries sector in Scotland. Support to the sector is provided by a combination of one-to-one support with individual companies; key group activities such as trade missions, and commissioning and sharing market research tailored to companies’ needs. Activity is focused on key markets across the USA, Europe and Asia, in particular France, China, Japan and Korea which have high potential. In addition ITI Techmedia is also further connecting Scotland’s creative industries sector internationally by developing new pre-competitive technologies upon which companies can develop their own products and services for global markets.