Welsh Language Scrutiny
Welsh Language Scrutiny
The Welsh
Language Commissioner is responsible for:
- promoting
and facilitating the use of the Welsh language;
- working
towards ensuring that the Welsh language is treated no less favourably
than the English language by imposing duties on some organisations to
comply with standards relating to the Welsh language;
- conducting
inquiries into matters relating to the Commissioner's functions; and
- investigating
interference with the individual’s freedom to use the Welsh language.
The Commissioner’s role and statutory powers are set
out in the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011.
More information about the work of the Commissioner is
available on Welsh Language Commissioner’s website.
The Communities,
Equality and Local Government Committee agreed to write to all committees
asking them to consider their existing approach to scrutiny of the Welsh language
as it relates to their remit and to seek views on how best the Welsh language
can be mainstreamed into all aspects of the Assembly’s scrutiny work.
The Committee
for the Scrutiny of the First Minister agreed to ask the First Minister
about the Welsh Government’s role in protecting and enhancing the Welsh
language.
Work of the Health and Social Care Committee
As a
result of the Welsh Language Commissioner’s report, ‘My
Language, My Health: Inquiry into the Welsh Language in Primary Care’, and
the Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee’s work, the Health and Social Care Committee
agreed to invite the Commissioner to its meeting on 2 July 2014. The
primary aims of the meeting were to:
- hear the
Commissioner’s views on the Welsh language provision within primary care;
- undertake
a general scrutiny session with the Commissioner.
Following
the meeting the
Health and Social Care Committee wrote to the Communities, Equality and Local
Government Committee (PDF, 189KB) in July 2014.
Business type:
Status: Complete
First published: 30/04/2014
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