Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many place names in the Ordnance Survey's National Geographic Database have been changed from Welsh into English in each year since 2010.

Ordnance Survey does not record the language of the names in the National Geographic Database; instead, it uses the ‘accepted’ name in the database, provided by the authoritative body responsible for the place, often the Local Authority. Should information about a place name change from English to Welsh or Welsh to English be received from an authoritative body such as a Local Authority, then that ‘accepted’ name change will be updated automatically in the National Geographic Database.