Written question WQ100940
- Asked by
- Jane DoddsLib Dem
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 6 days
Question
Did the Welsh Government carry out an assessment under the Welsh Language Standards (Policy Making Standards) before announcing the collaboration with Cosine, and if so, will the Cabinet Minister publish it?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language (Anna Brychan)
The collaboration involved signposting to publicly available Welsh-language resources which remain available for anyone to use and reuse. The collaboration forms part of our wider work to support and improve Welsh-language provision in technology through offering this type of collaboration to any relevant organisations that wish to improve how their products support the Welsh language.
An assessment under the Welsh language Standards was not undertaken because the collaboration was formed as part of our cross-Government approach to promoting the Welsh language, as outlined in Cymraeg 2050: A million Welsh speakers.
In addition to the above, our communications activity has so far been limited to a press release announcing the collaboration, including a quote from me as Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh language and a quote from the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy, which both the Welsh Government and Cosine have published.