Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the need to provide access to her Department's services in Welsh.

This Government is fully committed to the Welsh language and to providing Government services in the Welsh language where there is demand for them.

Since September 2009, the Home Office has adopted a Welsh language scheme which applies to Home Office headquarters and the Home Office’s non-departmental bodies that do not have their own schemes. The Home Office produces an annual report detailing progress against the targets outlined in the Welsh language scheme, which is then submitted to the Welsh Language Commissioner (WLC) for comment.

The Commissioner’s response to the monitoring reports can be found on the WLC website www.comisiynyddygymraeg.org