So, you may have to review the targets contained within the ‘Cymraeg 2050’ strategy.

In the ‘Education in Wales: Our National Mission 2017-21’ document, there is a suggestion that pupils will not take the new Welsh language qualification, which will replace second-language Welsh, until 2026 at the earliest. Now, that’s a cause of concern because it contradicts what was said in this Chamber on 28 September 2016. I asked the Minister for Welsh language at the time, Alun Davies:

‘Can you confirm…that you will be replacing Welsh as a second language with one single Welsh qualification that every pupil will have by 2021?’ and he responded:

‘The second language Welsh qualification will be replaced in exactly the way that you have suggested in 2021.’

On page 20 of the ‘Our National Mission’ document, it states that teaching the new GCSE qualification will start for the first time in 2024-25, which suggests that we will have to wait until 2026-27 until there is a single Welsh language qualification taken by all pupils. This is entirely contrary to what the Minister told me in September 2016, namely that there would be a single Welsh language qualification replacing second-language Welsh by 2021.

Do you agree with me that it is entirely unacceptable that another generation of children is to be deprived of the ability to speak Welsh fluently because of the lack of pace of this Government?