4. 4. Statement: Employability

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:38 pm on 15 November 2016.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 3:38, 15 November 2016

Diolch, Lywydd. Thank you for your statement, Minister, and for some of the reassurance you’ve just given in terms of gender balance in terms of this way forward. I just wanted to know where Welsh language skills might come into your considerations here. Obviously, the new advisory service will be an appropriate place to identify somebody’s latent Welsh language skills, but then so would be the actual providers of employment support. So, I suppose what I’m asking is: can you give us some reassurance today about where exactly the responsibility for identifying and bringing out someone’s Welsh language skills would sit in this? Obviously, the last thing any of us would want would be for this to fall through the gap between the service and the actual providers. Of course, this is particularly relevant when we’ve got poorer areas that are losing their Welsh language skills at the moment.