The Welsh Government yesterday announced the four people who will sit on the panel which will appoint Wales’ first Language Commissioner.

Education Minister Leighton Andrews, whose portfolio now includes the Welsh language, unveiled the quartet who will interview candidates and eventually make a recommendation to the First Minister.

The new role is being established to help ensure Welsh services are delivered to the public. He or she will take on the functions of the Welsh Language Board, which is being abolished.

The panel will be chaired by Emyr Roberts, director general at the Department for Education, and made up of former Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas, High Court judge Sir Roderick Evans and Elspeth Mitcheson, a trustee of the National Library of Wales.

The new commissioner will focus on the new regulatory system, including setting standards and establishing an enforcement regime.

See: Wales Online