Welsh language standards and services

Y Llywydd / The Llywydd

30 January 2024, Plenary

Debate: The Welsh Language Commissioner’s Annual Report 2022-23

The next item is a debate on the Welsh Language Commissioner's annual report 2022-23, and I call on the Minister for the Welsh language to move the motion. Jeremy Miles.

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Julie JamesLabour

30 January 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: White Paper for a proposed Bill on environmental principles, environmental governance and biodiversity targets

…same way the commissioners do, that its own work is understood. In fact, we've looked very hard at the Welsh Language Commissioner's office structure in looking at the proposals here, which I'm sure you know already are for a commission rather than a commissioner, because we expect to need a range…

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Jonathan Russell

25 January 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 2

…whose first language is Welsh. Our Welsh language scheme was updated in 2023 and it was approved by the Welsh Language Commissioner. We've actually set in train a scheme to review it in four years' time. But obviously, if evidence proves that that's not quite right, we'll revisit it too, because…

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Claire Homard

24 January 2024, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6

…them then, in terms of making that offer? Thinking how we as public bodies are required to work to the Welsh language standards, for example. So, I think there would be challenges, but, absolutely, an aspiration that any pupil wishing to access that through the medium of Welsh would be able to do…

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Rebecca EvansLabour

18 January 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government

Yes, so local authorities will have already in place embedded systems whereby they comply with the Welsh language standards and the work that they do in terms of promoting the Welsh language locally. Of course, the overall settlement is unhypothecated, and it will be for local authorities to decide…

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John GriffithsLabour

18 January 2024, Local Government and Housing Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government

…settlement on the Welsh language, particularly in relation to local authority requirements to meet the Welsh language standards and the duty to promote the Welsh language in their areas?

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

11 January 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

I was just thinking back to the evidence session with the Welsh Language Commissioner. To make the savings, she was looking at the rationalisation of her offices, which, to me, seems really sensible as well. I remember there was some concern amongst Members about sharing the Welsh Government's…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

11 January 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

…that the core budget can meet the regulatory requirements, but, as I've just said, the position of the Welsh Language Commissioner is a little different because of the legal element around the tribunal and so on. We do have a mechanism that allows that to be taken into account when the need arises…

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Delyth JewellPlaid

11 January 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

…give the same cut of 5 per cent to all commissioners, to what extent did you consider the fact that the Welsh Language Commissioner has functions in terms of regulations, such as monitoring bodies and so forth? Because the functions are different in that way. Does it reflect that fairly, that the…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

11 January 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

…no commissioner can carry more than a percentage of their budget as reserves, so, in the context of the Welsh Language Commissioner, as she does have statutory and regulatory responsibilities, what's happened is that the commissioner comes to Government and requests support when steps need to be…

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Hefin DavidLabour

11 January 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

Thank you, Chair. What impact will the reduction in funding for the Welsh Language Commissioner have on her functions and staff resource and are job losses are inevitable?

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Jeremy MilesLabour

11 January 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

Okay. As I said there are two main categories: the cut that impacts the Welsh Language Commissioner, so that cut is consistent with cuts that all of the commissioners will experience this year, which is around 5 per cent. The commissioner predicts that that will have an impact on staffing, as you…

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Jeremy MilesLabour

11 January 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25: evidence session with the Minister for Education and Welsh Language

…National Centre for Learning Welsh on the one hand, and then there's been some element of a cut to the Welsh Language Commissioner's budget. But what we're doing now is looking at the bigger picture in achieving our aims, and whether our aim is realistic, as you said. And we're looking at achieving…

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