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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 20ยท9 per cent. of the enumerated population of Wales aged 3 and over were able to speak Welsh.