§ 133. Mr. G. Robertsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to consult with his colleagues with a view to ensuring that all public Government inquiries held in districts where the Welsh language is spoken are conducted by officers who have an adequate knowledge of Welsh.
§ 136. Mr. Llewellynasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to consult with his colleagues with a view to ensuring that all public government inquiries held in districts where the Welsh language is spoken will be invariably conducted by officers who are chosen for their qualifications to hold such inquiries, whether they speak Welsh or not; and whether he will bear in mind that so long as justice is done to Wales, most Welsh people do not mind if it is done in English or in Welsh.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeI will certainly consult with my colleagues on this question, but I am bound to say that I foresee some difficulty in making an arrangement of the kind suggested by the hon. Member for Caernarvon (Mr. G. Roberts) where the subject-matter of the inquiry is one which requires expert technical qualifications on the part of the person who conducts it. My colleagues and I 261W fully appreciate the importance of making arrangements for the services of interpreters when it is known that evidence will be given in Welsh, and do so.