<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>13778</id>
<session>1996-97</session>
<number>613</number>
<title>Future Of Gaelic</title>
<proposer id="10382">Calum Macdonald</proposer>
<date>1997-03-05</date>
<text>That this House welcomes the publication of the Report on Securing the Future for Gaelic, produced by Comunn na Gaidhlig; supports its key aim of achieving secure status for the language through legislation; praises CNAG for the many constructive and responsible suggestions in their report; hopes that it will receive support in principle from all political parties; and believes that the provision of an official measure of support by legislation, as proposed by CNAG, will contribute to consolidating the enormous progress made with cross-party support in recent years, and also contribute to developing the potential of Gaelic in the life of modern Scotland.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10382">Calum MacDonald</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Na h-Eileanan an Iar</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10644">Brian Wilson</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cunninghame North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22605">Bill Walker</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Tayside</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10191">Margaret Ewing</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Moray</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10148">Roseanna Cunningham</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Perth and Kinross</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Falkirk East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10433">Ray Michie</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Argyll &amp; Bute</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10396">Robert Maclennan</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Caithness and Sutherland</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10334">Charles Kennedy</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ross and Cromarty and Skye</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21738">Russell Johnston</mp>
		<date>1997-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10618">Jim Wallace</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orkney &amp; Shetland</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10028">John Battle</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10399">Kevin McNamara</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingston upon Hull North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18408">William McKelvey</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kilmarnock &amp; Loudoun</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10375">John McAllion</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>1997-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10025">Tony Banks</mp>
		<date>1997-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newham North West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17366">Andrew Faulds</mp>
		<date>1997-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warley East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21734">David Knox</mp>
		<date>1997-03-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Staffordshire Moorlands</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10478">Colin Pickthall</mp>
		<date>1997-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Lancashire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22117">Robert Parry</mp>
		<date>1997-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, Riverside</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1997-03-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock and Port Glasgow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16411">Mike Watson</mp>
		<date>1997-03-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10215">Maria Fyfe</mp>
		<date>1997-03-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Maryhill</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10462">Edward O'Hara</mp>
		<date>1997-03-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10105">Michael Clapham</mp>
		<date>1997-03-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley West &amp; Penistone</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>1997-03-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10324">Martyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1997-03-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd South West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10590">Matthew Taylor</mp>
		<date>1997-03-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Truro</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10320">Ieuan Wyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1997-03-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ynys M</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16469">David Alton</mp>
		<date>1997-03-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool Mossley Hill</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10253">Mike Hall</mp>
		<date>1997-03-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warrington South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
