Campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg has welcomed the Welsh Language Commissioner’s investigation report into Torfaen Council after it launched an English-only hotline this year.

The investigation came following a number of complaints from members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith in Torfaen. The pressure group collected tens of complaints about the local authority and took them to the Commissioner back in July. Chief among the complaints was that the council's website wasn't available in Welsh.

Yvonne Balakrishnan, a member of Torfaen’s branch of Cymdeithas yr Iaith said:

"We welcome the report. The council has taken some steps forward recently, but they are still breaking their legally-binding language plan. So, there is still much to be done, and Cymdeithas yr Iaith members still have many complaints.  We hope the council will now focus on increasing its Welsh language provision in the future. These problems show once again the need for clear rights in the Welsh language standards that will be published by the First Minister next month."

"We are also disappointed that it took months of complaining and meetings before the Commissioner decided to hold an inquiry, and that she decided to investigate just one failure. It was quite obvious the Council breached several aspects of the Welsh language plan.”

Cymdeithas has given the First Minister until the 1st February to present clear rights to receive services in Welsh in the new language stanard, as part of a package of six policies, needed to respond to the recent Census results.

The language campaigners will be holding a rally in Aberystwyth on 14th December, a year since the publication of the Census, in order to remind government of their responsibility to act.