Section 78 The Welsh languageI1

The Welsh Ministers must adopt a strategy F1to be known as “the Welsh language strategy” or “strategaeth y Gymraeg” setting out how they propose to promote and facilitate the use of the Welsh language.

See Part 1 of the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 2) (referred to in Welsh as Deddf y Gymraeg ac Addysg (Cymru) 2025 (dsc 2)) for further requirements relating to the Welsh language strategy.

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The Welsh Ministers—

Before adopting or revising a strategy F6..., the Welsh Ministers must F7consult the Welsh Language Commissioner and such other persons as they consider appropriate.

The Welsh Ministers must publish the Welsh language strategy F8... when they first adopt it and—

If the Welsh Ministers publish a strategy F11..., or revisions, under subsection (6) they must lay a copy of the strategy or scheme, or revisions, before the F12Senedd.

After each financial year the Welsh Ministers must publish a report of how the proposals set out in the Welsh language strategy were implemented in that financial year and how effective their implementation has been in promoting and facilitating the use of the Welsh language and must lay a copy of the report before the Senedd.

For each financial year, the Welsh Ministers must publish a plan setting out how they will implement the proposals set out in the Welsh language strategy during that year.

The plan must be published as soon as reasonably practicable before the commencement of the financial year to which it relates.

In subsection (5), the reference to the “Welsh Language Commissioner means the commissioner appointed under section 2 of the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 1) (referred to in Welsh as Mesur y Gymraeg (Cymru) 2011 (mccc 1)).