Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Act 2025

46 Strategic plan

(1) The Learning Welsh Institute must, for each planning period, prepare a strategic plan.

(2) The strategic plan must set out how the Learning Welsh Institute intends—

(a) to exercise its functions in order to meet its objective, and

(b) to exercise its functions in accordance with sections 41 to 44.

(3) In preparing the strategic plan the Learning Welsh Institute must consult the following persons—

(a) the Welsh Ministers;

(b) the Welsh Language Commissioner;

(c) the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research;

(d) y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (company number 07550507);

(e) Welsh language learning providers;

(f) such other persons as it considers appropriate.

(4) The Learning Welsh Institute must submit the strategic plan for approval by the Welsh Ministers no later than 3 months before the beginning of the planning period to which it relates.

(5) The Welsh Ministers may approve the strategic plan subject to any modifications agreed with the Learning Welsh Institute.

(6) The Learning Welsh Institute must publish the strategic plan approved by the Welsh Ministers.

(7) The Learning Welsh Institute may review the strategic plan and submit an amended plan to the Welsh Ministers for approval, and subsections (5) and (6) apply to an amended plan as they apply to the original plan.

(8) In this section, the “planning period” means—

(a) a first period beginning with a date specified by the Welsh Ministers by regulations and ending with a date so specified, and

(b) each subsequent period of 3 years or such other period specified by the Welsh Ministers by regulations.