A Million Welsh Speakers

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 12 December 2017.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 2:15, 12 December 2017

There are three levels for developing three levels of Welsh speakers: following the huge improvement in the teaching of Welsh in English-medium primary schools, no child should leave a primary school as a monoglot English speaker, which wasn't true when I was in school; those educated in schools through the medium of Welsh; and those who study Welsh in university. What strategy is being followed to achieve 1 million Welsh speakers by 2050? And, more importantly, as you said earlier, how do you get people who speak Welsh on a daily basis, but not to a technical level, to identify themselves as Welsh speakers?