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The UK Government is to stop all its funding for Gaelic TV.

 

Cuts by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport will see the loss of the funding stream set up by Danny Alexander when he was chief secretary of the Treasury under the previous LibDem - Conservative coalition.

 

Mr Alexander secured two one-off grants totalling £2 million for MG Alba.

 

This will not be renewed said the UK government.

 

The Scottish Government continues to provide nearly £14 million to the service.

 

MP Angus MacNeil urged Scottish Secretary David Mundell to use his cabinet position to reverse this decision.

 

Angus MacNeil said: “The announcement that the UK Government is cutting all the funding it gives to Gaelic TV is staggering and it again highlights how out of touch Westminster is and unconcerned about Scotland.

 

"At the same time as it has engaged in cultural vandalism in Scotland, the Tory Government is giving £150 million to museums in London.

 

“I am writing to the Secretary of State, David Mundell. This decision must be reversed, our oldest national and Celtic language must be supported.”

 

 

 

UK Government cuts Gaelic TV funding

 

27 November 2015