[jfim]

28 million GBP a year seems pretty small, budget-wise. How much is that per capita?

[ashtonkem]

The Scottish budget is £34B. So Scotland is spending 0.08% of their budget on Gaelic education, which seems pretty inconsequential.

[jrmg]

£5.27 (~7.86 USD)per Scottish resident, or £488 (607.78 USD) per resident speaker of Gaelic, if you go by Wikipedia’s population statistics.

[Edit: or, if you go by the article’s 11000 active speakers number, £2545, 3170 USD]

[daleharvey]

Worth noting that the budget for "Gaelic" is part of education, ie 24m or so is spent on standard schooling which happens to be done in Gaelic