Lord Teverson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Teverson on 2016-05-18.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to reconsider their decision to withdraw financial support for the Cornish language, and if not, under what circumstances they next intend to do so.

Baroness Williams of Trafford

Cornwall Council has a core spending power of £1.7 billion over the next four years, from which they can allocate the necessary resources to sustain and grow the use of the Cornish Language, if that is what local people want to see.