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National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Welsh Language)

I am delighted that my right hon. Friend has mentioned Monmouthshire. He briefed me last night on what he was likely to say, so I looked up Aneurin Bevan in 1958 at the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale. He said that although we ““in Monmouthshire...speak English and no Welsh we are essentially a part of Wales...Its characteristics are Welsh, its legends are Welsh.”” I hope that my right hon. Friend will concur with that view. Next year, the Eisteddfod will come back to Ebbw Vale. I hope that he will join me in going around the Maes and listening to some lectures, one of which will be on Aneurin Bevan and another on Paul Robeson.