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Welsh Affairs

In view of the time constraints, no. I would like to draw hon. Members' attention to a report that I commissioned about two years ago, which has just been published. It is called, ““Creu Cymru Gwbl Ddwyieithog””, ““Creating an Entirely Bilingual Wales””. It was written by Dr. Kathryn Jones of Cwmni Iaith—a group of entirely independent academics, so there is no party political content in the report. As hon. Members who have looked at it will know, it is a hefty piece of work, comprising some 38 recommendations as to ways forward. I have distributed the report widely and I hope that its welcome by the Welsh Language Board and the Welsh Assembly Government will be replicated elsewhere. I hope that we will have a proper debate about it. Finally, let me add another detail. It is all very well commissioning large reports from experts. I was crossing the maes—the square—in Caernarfon late one night, returning from the office. As I saw all those people out there enjoying themselves, I wondered how one could reach them. It is all very well for experts and politicians to discuss this, but what about ordinary people? I struck on the idea of what I have called ““Wikideddfu””—wiki law-making, which is a user-generated site where people can add their thoughts on any matter of legislation, although it is about language at the moment. It is an edited site. If, for example, the Secretary of State were to put down his thoughts I could edit them, and he could re-edit them into their original form. After three months or so, we will see what the people have said. If I may make a modest claim, I believe it is the first site of its kind in the world. As those who are familiar with Wikipedia will know, entries are generated by users and we trust people to correct any inaccuracies. If someone writes that two and two are five, someone else will change ““five”” to ““four””, and if ““five”” is reinserted, it will be changed to ““four”” again. That is the principle, at any rate. I hope that we shall have a continual conversation on Wikideddfu over the next three months. I commend it to Members, and to anyone else in Wales who wants to contribute to this interesting debate.