9. Motion to note the annual report on the Assembly Commission's Official Languages Scheme for 2017-18

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:33 pm on 18 July 2018.

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Photo of Adam Price Adam Price Plaid Cymru 5:33, 18 July 2018

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Thank you, Llywydd. There are so many interesting comments and questions and I’m very grateful for those, but it won’t be possible for me to respond to them all in the next two minutes, so please forgive me for that. But, I will certainly ensure that you will get a reply. In terms of the lack of time for scrutiny, well, to a certain extent, I’m to blame for that. I’m not going to blame little Ilar for that. We had timetabled this for the last day for a reason, and so—. But I do look forward to scrutiny by the committee in due course, and we will be looking at the arrangements for next year. In terms of the EQIA, it is a live document, and as the steps that we take are delivered, we will be updating that in due course, but I’ll provide more information to you on that. The new recruitment system has only been in place since the start of this week, so there will be more information next year. In terms of the two-year certificate, the working group is of the opinion that there would be a need to refine the courtesy skills periodically. So, that’s the reason for the two-year timeframe. In terms of having quantitative figures in terms of skills and learners and the full audit that Siân Gwenllian referred to, I think that would be of benefit. So, I do hope that we will enrich the annual reports with more quantitative information in the future, and we can also look at the number of hits on the page on the scheme and so forth and look at how that works. I do intend to write to the BBC about subtitling along the lines that Suzy Davies did suggest, and in terms of the research briefings, I think Siân’s suggestion is a very constructive one and we will look into that and we will report back to you. Forgive me, but I have run out of time. It will be possible for us to write to everyone and copy everyone in with fuller answers.FootnoteLink