§ Mr. Ellisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions in magistrates' courts in each police authority area in Wales have been held entirely in English, or partly in Welsh and partly in English with the use of an interpreter, where the defence has asked for the case to be heard entirely in Welsh, during the past 12 months.
§ Mr. CarlisleThe chief constables concerned tell me that, according to their records, no case was heard entirely in English in the circumstances described; and that the number of cases heard partly130W in English and partly in Welsh was as follows:
Dyfed Powys 13 Gwent 1 Gwynedd 135 South Wales 88