Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent on Gaelic road signage in (a) Ayrshire and Arran, (b) the Scottish Borders, (c) Dumfries and Galloway and (d) the rest of Scotland in each of the last five years.
No money has been spent on Gaelic road signage on trunk roads in (a) Ayrshire and Arran, (b) the Scottish Borders, (c) Dumfries and Galloway in the last five years.
For the rest of scotland, the £5m A82 Crianlarich Bypass, opened in December 2014 included an approximate spend of £115k on signage, 44% included Gaelic text alongside the English text. bilingual direction signing has been provided on the A82 from Tarbet to Inverness and those trunk roads leading to the ports at Kennacraig, Oban, Mallaig, Uig and Ullapool. This programme, which also included the replacement of signs for maintenance reasons, was completed by Transport Scotland in 2010 at a cost of £2 million.