Will the Minister provide the number of Welsh-speaking local authority staff, excluding teachers, working in Wales, for the financial year 2018/19 and the previous four financial years, and divided by local authority?
The Welsh Government does not collect this data. However it is a requirement under the Welsh language Standards for every local authority to assess the Welsh language skills of their workforce and to publish this information at the end of each financial year in their annual report on the Welsh language standards. The standards have been in place since March 2016, therefore this information should be available for 2016-17 and 2017-18, with a requirement to have published 2018-19’s report by the end of June 2019 (under standard 170). We encourage them to make this information available in an open and accessible format. Here are the links to the webpages which hold each Local authority’s annual report:
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· Gwynedd · Conwy · Wrexham · Powys · Swansea |
· Bridgend · Cardiff · Torfaen · Newport |
The information is not collected nor recorded in a consistent way for each local authority and it is therefore difficult to compare between local authorities.