Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Today, I’m announcing the publication of the Cymraeg 2050 Action Plan for 2025-26. This document describes how we’ll continue to implement the objectives contained in our strategy, Cymraeg 2050: A million Welsh speakers during the 2025-26 financial year.
The Action Plan reflects the steps set out in the Cymraeg 2050 Work Programme for 2021-2026, as well as our Programme for Government. The Plan outlines the work the Welsh Government will undertake during the 2025-26 financial year to deliver against the two main targets, as follows:
- The number of Welsh speakers to reach 1 million by 2050.
- The percentage of the population that speak Welsh daily, and can speak more than just a few words of Welsh, to increase from 10% (in 2013-15) to 20% by 2050.
This year, we will continue to work under the three themes within our language strategy:
- Increase the number of Welsh speakers.
- Increase the use of Welsh.
- Creating favourable conditions – infrastructure and context.
Our vision is that the Welsh language belongs to everyone in Wales – the people who are able to speak it confidently, those who are learning the language, and those who speak only a few words. Our work this year will therefore focus on the education sector through the Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill, community language use and language technology. We will continue to work across various Ministerial portfolios and with a wide range of stakeholders across Wales and beyond in order to move forward on our journey towards a million Welsh-speakers and to double the daily use of our language.