FOI/202500470493 · FOI · unclear
Gaelic language funding for schools: FOI release
Information requested
The amount of Gaelic funding given to schools, for each school with their name.
Response
The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for because the funding of individual schools is a matter for local authorities and we do not collect the information for school specific expenditure.
The Scottish Government Gaelic Specific Grant is given to Local Authorities to support Gaelic education in their area, however we do not collect or hold data on how each authority distributes that funding to specific school. The Gaelic Specific Grant represents additional funding provided by the Scottish Government and does not reflect the totality of spend that local authorities incur in their delivery of Gaelic Medium Education in their area. I have attached below a table that shows the amounts allocated to local authorities in 24/25 & 25/26 for the Gaelic Specific Grant, as this is the closest data we hold to your request. Data on the amount spent on each school would have to be requested from each individual local authority.
Local Authority 24/25 25/26 Aberdeen City £95,000 £95,000 Aberdeenshire Nil Nil Angus £5,500 £10,000 Argyll and Bute £365,000 £380,000 City of Edinburgh £325,000 £340,000 Clackmannanshire £7,250 £8,000 CNES £970,000 £995,000 East Ayrshire £144,000 £144,000 East Dunbartonshire £73,000 £80,000 East Lothian £9,600 £15,000 East Renfrewshire £62,000 £70,000 Falkirk £13,000 £25,000 Fife £12,000 £15,000 Glasgow £565,000 £585,000 Highland £915,000 £940,000 Inverclyde £65,000 £70,000 Midlothian £7,500 £8,000 Moray £2,470 £3,000 North Ayrshire £93,000 £95,000 North Lanarkshire £265,000 £280,000 Perth and Kinross £103,000 £110,000 Renfrewshire £55,000 £60,000 Scottish Borders £700 £1,000 South Ayrshire £9,480 £4,100 South Lanarkshire £170,000 £175,000 Stirling £115,000 £120,000 West Dunbartonshire £27,000 £35,000 West Lothian £7,500 £6,737
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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Local Authority 24/25 25/26 Aberdeen City £95,000 £95,000 Aberdeenshire Nil Nil Angus £5,500 £10,000 Argyll and Bute £365,000 £380,000 City of Edinburgh £325,000 £340,000 Clackmannanshire £7,250 £8,000 CNES £970,000 £995,000 East Ayrshire £144,000 £144,000 East Dunbartonshire £73,000 £80,000 East Lothian £9,600 £15,000 East Renfrewshire £62,000 £70,000 Falkirk £13,000 £25,000 Fife £12,000 £15,000 Glasgow £565,000 £585,000 Highland £915,000 £940,000 Inverclyde £65,000 £70,000 Midlothian £7,500 £8,000 Moray £2,470 £3,000 North Ayrshire £93,000 £95,000 North Lanarkshire £265,000 £280,000 Perth and Kinross £103,000 £110,000 Renfrewshire £55,000 £60,000 Scottish Borders £700 £1,000 South Ayrshire £9,480 £4,100 South Lanarkshire £170,000 £175,000 Stirling £115,000 £120,000 West Dunbartonshire £27,000 £35,000 West Lothian £7,500 £6,737 This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
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