Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 28 November 2007.
David Cairns
Minister of State, Scotland Office
11:30,
28 November 2007
The hon. Gentleman is correct. The Government have been firmly supporting that service. He will know from the article that I wrote—in Gaelic—in Scotland on Sunday how committed we are to it. It is our expectation that the service will be up and running this financial year. I understand that it cannot go on Freeview until the switchover, but will be available on other platforms in the meantime. We are committed to ensuring that it happens.