To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have been held with South Lanarkshire Council in relation to its involvement in hosting events as part of Homecoming Scotland 2009.

The Homecoming Scotland 2009 team at EventScotland have had a good level of engagement with South Lanarkshire Council. A local authority email distribution list was used to invite local authorities to distribute the Homecoming partner events registration form to events organisers in the area that met the funding criteria. Two partner event registration forms were submitted from the South Lanarkshire area - the Biggar Little Festival and Scotland’s Living History Festival/Lanark Medieval Festival. Both of these events are now in the Homecoming programme and will feature in the next printed events guide and on the Homecoming events search engine.

South Lanarkshire Council also have a Homecoming contact and the Homecoming team have been in touch with that official, who has received two local authority e-updates that have been issued by the Homecoming team. She has confirmed that South Lanarkshire will have approximately 25 events in the local Homecoming programme.