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Oral Answers to Questions

Glyn Davies Excerpts
Wednesday 25th May 2016

(7 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. Let us hear Mr Glyn Davies.

Glyn Davies Portrait Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire) (Con)
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S4C is crucial to Wales, and particularly to the Welsh language. Does my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State agree that the Welsh language is too often seen as the secondary language in Wales? It is not a secondary language; it is at least equal first.

Alun Cairns Portrait Alun Cairns
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This Government have a strong record of supporting S4C, and previous Conservative Governments have a strong record of establishing S4C, introducing the Welsh Language Act 1993 and turning around the decline in the Welsh language that we saw previously. We should be rightly proud of the language of our culture and our heritage—a true Conservative policy.