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Welsh Language Board

Volume 496: debated on Monday 20 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what the total annual cost of the Welsh Language Board has been in each year since it was established. (288510)

Since devolution, the funding of the Welsh Language Board has been a matter for the National Assembly for Wales. The following grant in aid payments have been made to the Welsh Language Board since its creation in 1993:

£000

1993-94

129

1994-95

1,797

1995-96

1,953

1996-97

2,000

1997-98

5,692

1998-99

5,762

1999-2000

5,929

2000-01

6,330

2001-02

7,127

2002-03

6,828

2003-04

11,584

2004-05

12,329

2005-06

12,677

2006-07

13,441

2007-08

13,454

2008-09

13,534

The increase in funding in 1997-98 relates to the transfer of funding for a number of organisations from the then Welsh Office to the Board. The 2002-03 rise was due to additional funding to coincide with the publication of the Welsh Assembly Government's "laith Pawb" scheme.