Thank you very much, Suzy, for that contribution. As you will know, increasing the opportunities for students, school pupils and those in FE and HE to acquire language skills in the Welsh language and to be able to utilise those skills in their mode of studies is something that is very important to me. With regards to FE, we’re currently asking Delyth Evans to do a piece of work on whether the role and remit of the Coleg Cymraeg should be extended to the FE sector, and we expect to receive that report before the summer recess. Obviously, any organisation that is charged with the planning of HE and FE and work-based learning provision in our nation will have to think about how they deliver that through the medium of Welsh as well as in English.

With regard to wider languages, I’m not in a position to say at this moment the roles and responsibilities that this organisation will have with regards to that. But planning qualifications and planning and commissioning a range of language qualifications and courses, whether that be in modern foreign languages, in Welsh, or in the ability to express yourself confidently and coherently—perhaps better than I’m doing at the moment—obviously is something that we’ll be looking at in terms of commissioning courses that will be available. And I recognise that the ability to express yourself and communicate effectively is an important one, and of course that is why we have kept an oral examination as part of our English language GCSE, whereas that has been abolished in England.