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<span class="">30 September 2013</span>
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<h1 class="">Judicial review called over NS&I's Welsh language policy</h1>
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<span style="width:304px">Welsh language commissioner Meri Huws had asked NS&I to reconsider</span>
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<p class="" id="story_continues_1">A
High Court judge is to decide if state-backed National Savings and
Investment (NS&I) will have to resume using the Welsh language.</p>
<p>NS&I, famed for its premium bonds and savings accounts,
announced in April it was discontinuing its Welsh-language policy citing
low demand.</p>
<p>But Welsh language commissioner Meri Huws applied for a
judicial review after NS&I rejected her request to reconsider its
decision.</p>
<p>The case will be heard later this year.</p>
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<span style="width:304px">NS&I said that its Welsh language policy was costly and under used by its customers</span>
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<p>Ms Huws used powers under the 2011 Welsh Language Measure or Welsh law to apply for a judicial review into the matter.</p>
<p>It had followed NS&I's announcement that it would not continue with its Welsh-language policy.</p>
<p>It said that the policy was too costly and that not many customers corresponded in Welsh with NS&I.</p>
<p>NS&I had not consulted with the commissioner or the public over its plan.</p>
<p>Despite Ms Huws' request to reconsider the decision her request was rejected prompting her to ask for a judicial review.</p>
<p>The case will be heard sometime between November and the end of January.</p>
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