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S3M-02073 Cathy Peattie (Falkirk East) (Scottish Labour): Supporting Scottish Culture— That the Parliament recognises the valuable work of Scottish cultural organisations, including the Traditional Music and Song Association, the Scottish Traditions of Dance Trust, the Scots Music Group, Voluntary Arts Scotland, the Scots Language Centre, and Scots Language Dictionaries, which promote and support extensive voluntary participation in Scottish traditional arts and culture; notes the extreme difficulties these organisations now face as a result of their loss of funding from the Scottish Arts Council; further notes that while existing funding runs to March 2009, the reality of redundancies and the termination of accommodation and office facilities means that their activity will be severely curtailed later this year; recognises that the audit of Scots language provision, even if completed in time, is unlikely to provide more than a partial solution to the problem; believes that the Scottish Arts Council cannot be trusted to support and promote the Scots language and Scottish traditional arts and sees no reason to suspect that Creative Scotland will be any different, and therefore believes that a separately constituted and funded body should be set up for this purpose and interim measures put in place to safeguard existing provision until this is done.

Supported by: Karen Whitefield, Mary Mulligan, Malcolm Chisholm, Margo MacDonald, Dr Richard Simpson, Jackie Baillie, Robin Harper, Hugh O'Donnell, Margaret Curran, Dr Elaine Murray, Elaine Smith, David Whitton, Marlyn Glen, Hugh Henry, George Foulkes, Iain Gray, Lewis Macdonald, Dr Bill Wilson, Marilyn Livingstone, Sarah Boyack, Rt Hon Jack McConnell, Mr Frank McAveety, John Park, Trish Godman

Lodged on Thursday, June 05, 2008; Not Current as of Tuesday, September 30, 2008