Mr. Aled Roberts:

It is a complex picture. Each local authority is publishing a strategic education language plan in which targets have been imposed on each authority by the government - I think it uses the phrase "targets have been negotiated with each local authority" by the government - to increase the number of speakers within the compulsory education stage. We also have a body called the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, which translates as the Welsh National College, which has previously been given responsibility to increase the Welsh language provision with universities. It has now been given the same responsibility for post-16 further education learning. The pattern in post-16 is not as healthy as pre-16, but that is because the majority of youngsters in Wales are no longer educated post-16 within schools. They are educated within colleges and, historically, the provision within in colleges has not been as good - let us put it that way - as it has been in the schools. There are huge issues with regard to training college lecturers who have fluency in the language. The figures on higher education have been improving, but they are still not where we want them to be. The figures in further education are challenging, to put it mildly.