Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:30 pm on 30 January 2019.
I’m not sure whether I made it clear enough in my first reply, I think I need to underscore that there is no change on the policy on immersion. There is awareness, and we’ve been doing this throughout the years. We have a history that people are emulating throughout the whole of the world as regards the efficacy of this specific policy and this will not change in future. So, I want you to be totally clear that that is the position, not just for now but for the future too.
I must also emphasise that it is worth seeing in the new curriculum that that target of attaining a million speakers is not just for people within Welsh-medium education but for whole generations, all of the schoolchildren going through the system, so, everybody will benefit. But, of course, as regards the immersion system, that will be different to those.