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Mr. John D. Taylor
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what are his estimates of the percentage of people in Scotland who (a) use the Scottish Gaelic as their first language and (b) have a fluent knowledge of Scottish Gaelic.
Mr. Michael Forsyth
Information is not available in the form requested. At the time of the 1981 census some 1ยท6 per cent. of the population of Scotland aged three or over were identified as Gaelic speakers.