The Target of 1 Million Welsh Speakers by 2050

Part of 3. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 3:53 pm on 26 June 2019.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 3:53, 26 June 2019

On a personal level, I'm trying to increase the number of Welsh-speaking teachers by one. Whilst we will not know the number of Welsh speakers in 2050 because there'll be no means to find that out, we'll know the number after the 2021, 2031, 2041 and 2051 censuses. How many Welsh speakers do you expect in the 2021 census? One thing I do know is we're not going to go from 600,000 to 1 million in a one-year period.