Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:56 pm on 21 November 2023.
Ian Blackford
Scottish National Party, Ross, Skye and Lochaber
5:56,
21 November 2023
I am grateful to the Minister, who I appreciate is trying to be helpful. What we are asking for specifically is that protection in law be given to Gaelic in the way it is given to other languages, such as Welsh. I hope that that can be done with cross-party consensus, which is what we have done over the course of the past few decades in this place.
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