§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects the figures for the number of Gaelic speakers to be available from the 1981 census.
§ Mr. YoungerA special census bulletin giving the key results on Gaelic will be issued next month. Those regional bulletins covering the main Gaelic speaking areas should be published by the end of May 1982 and will contain figures showing the number and proportion of Gaelic speakers in those areas. Further information on Gaelic on a regional basis will be published in the course of the current year and it is planned to produce a detailed report of the census results relating to the language early next year.