1. Will the Commissioner make a statement on the bilingual broadcasting of Plenary proceedings? OAQ51818

We show live verbatim and translated Plenary proceedings on Senedd.tv and YouTube. We provide broadcasters with verbatim and translated audio feeds from all Plenary meetings. BBC Wales stream Plenary live on their Welsh and English-language websites. First Minister's questions is broadcast with the translated feed on BBC Wales every Tuesday, and BBC Parliament shows First Minister's questions and selected items from Plenary each week.

Thank you very much for that response, Llywydd. Now, a number of individuals have told me over the past few months that, when channels, such as BBC 2 specifically, broadcast proceedings from this Chamber live, when a Member makes a contribution in Welsh, both languages—Welsh and the English interpretation—are broadcast simultaneously with neither being quieter than the other, so that people complain that they can't hear either language clearly, particularly older people. So, could we convince our broadcasters to make it easier for Welsh-language listeners to hear contributions clearly in the original Welsh or to provide subtitles or any other response that wouldn't mean hours of painstaking work for the viewer to retune their television once again?

Thank you for the question. The sound engineers working for us provide the feed for the broadcasters and good practice, I understand, as regards broadcasting the interpretation is that both audio feeds are available so that the viewer, the listener, can see that the person is speaking in one language with interpretation provided in another language. Of course, it's very important that the interpretation can be understood and that the original sound doesn't infringe upon people being able to understand what is being said by Dai Lloyd and myself on this point now via the interpretation and the broadcasting. So, it's clear, if there are complaints, that we need to look once again at how mixing both the feeds is done and how we get the balance right for the viewers. I will ensure that that is reviewed, because it's important that everybody understands what is being said in both Welsh and English in this place.

Thank you. Question 2 is to be answered by Joyce Watson as the Commissioner for equalities and the Commission as the employer of Assembly staff. It's question 2. It's Mark Isherwood.