HC Deb 30 June 2003 vol 408 c97W
Mr. Peter Robinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much was spent by his Department on promoting(a) the Irish language and (b) the Ulster Scots language in the last 12 months for which records are available. [121085]

Angela Smith

The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure is the Department with lead responsibility for language policy in Northern Ireland. It had no direct expenditure on the promotion of either the Irish of Ulster-Scots language in 2002–03.