Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 4 October 2017.
I would very kindly suggest that the Member once again reads the strategy that I published in July. And if you read the programme of work, which was published simultaneously, you will see that there are criteria included there that show that we’re planning for an increase in the number of children receiving their education through the medium of Welsh, and how many teachers will be required to attain those targets. So, the targets are already there for the end of this Assembly term and the ensuing years. So, there are some targets included in both the programme of work and in the strategy itself.
When it comes to publishing the WESPs, of course, it’s a matter for the local authorities. It’s not a matter for this Government to do that, and it’s up to each individual authority to do that. And I have written to each one of the local authorities over the summer, and I would expect them to publish their plans, I would hope, before the end of this year.