HC Deb 15 April 1988 vol 131 c253W
Mr. Wigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list all the non-European languages taught as foreign languages in Wales and list those secondary schools in which they are taught.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

Japanese is taught to a group of sixth-formers, on an informal basis, at Heol Ddu comprehensive school, Mid Glamorgan, and is available as a nine-week module to fourth and fifth-formers in Ysgol Emrys ap Iwan, Clwyd. No other maintained schools teach non-European languages.

Pupils Who …
speak Welsh at home do not speak Welsh at home but who can speak it with fluency speak Welsh but not fluently cannot speak Welsh at all
Welsh Counties Number Proportion Number Proportion Number Proportion Number Proportion
Clwyd 1,351 4.7 1,579 5.5 6,566 22.7 19,345 57.1
Dyfed 4,850 20.1 2,040 8.4 4,913 20.3 12,396 51.2
Gwent 37 0.1 452 1.4 127 0.4 31,620 98.1
Gwynedd 6,500 40.2 3,016 18.6 5,412 33.5 1,252 7.7
Mid Glamorgan 297 0.7 3,707 9.1 1,742 4.3 35,057 85.9
Powys 467 5.7 342 4.2 1,268 15.6 6,074 74.5
South Glamorgan 346 1.2 580 2.1 1,632 5.8 25,641 90.9
West Glamorgan 724 2.8 658 2.5 1,871 7.1 22,918 87.6