What funding it and the former Scottish Office gave to football in each year since 1997 and which organisations received any such funding.

Lottery FundingThe Lottery Sports Fund has provided over £17 million directly to football since 1997. This does not include awards made to multi sport applications totalling £23,730,297 from which football may benefit. Full details under the various programmes are provided in the following tables 1-6. Three hundred and twenty-two awards totalling £687,781 have also been made for football under the awards for All Scheme as shown in the following table 7.In addition to those programmes identified, football is one of the sports included in the TOP Programme and the School Sport Co-ordinator Programme and has also been identified as one of the core sports of the Scottish Institute of Sport. It is not possible to identify the precise figure for football from these activities.Exchequer FundingThe Scottish Women's Football Association received development grant aid from sportscotland of £255,000 over the years 1997-2001 broken down per year as shown in the following table 8.Sportscotland has also made 105 awards to 79 football related organisations totalling £221,517 through its Sportsmatch Programme since 1997. These are listed in the following table 9.As part of the Phase II re-development of Hampden Stadium and the restructuring package in 2000, sportscotland paid Queen's Park Football Club Ltd £4,265,000 of lottery funds and the Scottish Office/Executive (through sportscotland) contributed £4.75 million of Exchequer funds.Finally, the Executive, via sportscotland, provided the Scottish Football Association (SFA) with £500,000 to help meet the costs of bidding for the 2008 European Championships.Lottery Funded AwardsTable 1Programme | Number of Awards | Total (£) |
Capital | 39 | 7,580,699 | Table 4
Sports Facilities | 19 | 5,164,869 | Table 3*
Awards for All | 322 | 687,781 | Table 7
TAP | 116 | 352,012 | Table 6
Junior Groups | 7 | 271,011 | Table 2*
Major Events | 2 | 92,500 | Table 2*
National Coach | 2 | 345,386 | Table 2*
Performance Coach | 4 | 24,268 | Table 2*
Safety at Sports Grounds | 7 | 2,785,666 |