National Assembly for Wales

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Notes the variety of views expressed in the summary report of responses to the call for evidence, 'Preparing for a Welsh Language Bill', published in July 2017

Preparing for a Welsh Language Bill - Call for evidence: summary of responses

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Notes the narrow remit of the Welsh Government’s White Paper.
  

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Calls on the Welsh Government to ensure that there will be no weakening of the current legal rights of Welsh speakers.

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Calls on the Welsh Government to ensure that regulatory work and promotional work in relation to the Welsh language is undertaken by two different bodies.

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Welcomes the Welsh Government's desire to reduce the level of bureaucracy that exists in the Welsh-language standards system.

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Calls on the Welsh Government to proceed with the language standards for health and housing associations urgently, and to publish a timetable for the publication of language standards for the energy sectors, water companies, telecommunications, train and bus companies.

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Calls on the Welsh Government to extend the language standards to the rest of the private sector.

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Calls on the Welsh Government to outline clearly its rationale for proposing the scrapping of the role of Welsh Language Commissioner.