Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what translation arrangements his Department has put in place to enable efficient and accurate handling of Welsh language correspondence from (a) MPs and (b) the general public.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport receives very low numbers of correspondence in Welsh. Because of the low numbers involved, the Department uses an external translation service on an ad-hoc basis when we receive any such correspondence.

The Department's commitment to answering Welsh correspondence, in the language that it is written, is the same as for correspondence written in English. That is, within 20 working days of receipt.