Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:36 pm on 5 February 2020.

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Photo of Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Labour 2:36, 5 February 2020

(Translated)

Thank you. Just to finish the previous point, I do think that we're likely to reach the targets in terms of the primary sector. I do hope that this annual census of the workforce will perhaps allow us to see whether it’s possible to move people perhaps who aren't teaching through the medium of Welsh into areas where they can teach through the medium of Welsh. We'll have to see what that census shows.

In terms of Welsh in business—and thank you for your interest in that—I do think that we have to do much more in terms of the partnerships, to ensure that they feel that they have something to offer, and that they are taking the reins. In terms of business, we don't have standards in the private sector as a whole, but I do think that perhaps we can look more at the ambassadors that you mentioned. If that works in the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, perhaps further to what we're doing with the 12 officials that we have who are going around Wales, providing advice to people, perhaps they would be able to help to see who could be champions on our behalf.