HC Deb 26 March 1980 vol 981 c623W
Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what is his Department's estimate of the percentage of Welsh people that can speak Welsh.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

The 1971 census figures are the latest available and showed that 20.9 per cent. of the enumerated population of Wales aged 3 and over were able to speak Welsh.