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Following my oral statement last month I want today to set out our plans for further investment in deploying superfast broadband beyond the Superfast Cymru project.  These plans will also be presented in an oral statement during plenary on Tuesday 8 November.  

  

As we have outlined in Taking Wales Forward, our aim is to bring fast reliable broadband to every property in Wales. The real benefit of Superfast broadband is how it can improve lives and support businesses now and in the future.  

  

Since 2012, the Welsh Government has invested over £162 million of EU and public funding in broadband infrastructure across Wales where the commercial market alone could not make the case for investment.  

  

Our flagship Superfast Cymru project has already brought high\-speed broadband to nearly 614,000 premises across Wales and is forecast to deliver over 100,000 further premises before it closes in 2017\. Our Access Broadband Cymru project has operated in parallel, providing broadband to over 5,000 premises using a range of technologies delivered by multiple suppliers.  

  

Our Programme for Government reinforces our commitment to broadband investment and this is reflected in the recent budget settlement.  

  

Over the next year we intend to meet our existing commitment to the final year of the Superfast Cymru project by investing up to £62 million. In addition we are currently assessing the responses to the recent consultation with the telecoms industry in relation to an additional £12\.9 million to extend the reach of the Superfast Cymru project next year. This is the amount that BT forecasted last year will be returned to the public purse through a gain\-share clause within the current Superfast Cymru contract.  

  

The gain share clause allows Welsh Government to benefit from the success of our investment in BT’s network via the Superfast Cymru project.  When the take\-up of broadband services exceeds the level forecast by BT at the outset of the contract, a proportion of the profit made on every further wholesale service they sell must be placed into an investment fund.  The investment fund can be either reinvested in the project, or returned with interest, to Welsh Government in 2023\. Subject to detailed analysis and dialogue with BT, we expect that this additional funding outlined above will enable additional premises to be reached through the Superfast Cymru contract by December 2017\.  

  

In anticipation of the conclusion of the Superfast Cymru contract next year, we have now embarked on the preparatory work necessary to establish a successor broadband investment project.  

  

Modelling and forecasting by both the Welsh Government and the UK Government indicates that the Superfast Cymru investment fund will eventually yield between £30 million and £50 million by 2023 as take\-up of fibre services funded by our investment reaches between 35 per cent and 50 per cent over that period.   Take\-up of fibre services within the Superfast Cymru intervention area currently stands at around 29 per cent.  

  

So, should we reach the 50 per cent target we set ourselves in July 2015, around £50 million will be released. Of this up to around £37 million will be available to re\-invest in providing access to superfast broadband to additional premises after the 12\.9m reinvested in to Superfast Cymru is taken in to account.  

  

We committed £20 million in the recent budget over the next four years to support this activity and we will use this funding to leverage significant additional investment.  

  

We are in discussions with the Welsh European Funding Office to secure a further £20 million of Structural Funds to continue the roll\-out of superfast broadband.  We are in the early stages of the application process but we remain confident that the funding will be available, subject to WEFO approval, as a result of the UK Treasury’s guarantee to honour EU bids approved prior to exit from the EU.  

  

We also have an outstanding commitment from the UK Government of £2 million towards a new superfast broadband project. We will continue to press the UK Government for additional investment in Wales that builds on the success of Superfast Cymru and contributes to UK Government policy goals.  

  

Overall, we anticipate that the successor to Superfast Cymru will be underpinned by a public sector budget of up to £80 million.  This, in turn, will leverage private sector match funding to further extend broadband coverage to the hardest to reach premises across Wales by 2020\.  

  

We are also renewing our commitment to the Access Broadband Cymru scheme with further of £1\.5 million over the next two years to ensure that this vital lifeline continues to operate in parallel to Superfast Cymru and successor projects with equivalent funding in place to extend for a further two years beyond 2018\.  

  

In November, we will launch an Open Market Review to establish at a premises level where superfast broadband has been delivered to date, both through Superfast Cymru and through commercial deployment. We will also consult on where the market plans to invest over the next three years. We will engage with the telecoms market over the next weeks and months to help shape and inform our intervention area and procurement strategy. In developing the next intervention, value for money will continue to be a priority.  

  

We currently aim to launch the procurement process in February 2017 so that a contract can be awarded in sufficient time to enable delivery to commence in January 2018, following project closure of Superfast Cymru in December 2017\.







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Yn dilyn fy natganiad llafar fis diwethaf, rwyf am ddisgrifio fy nghynlluniau ichi heddiw ar gyfer buddsoddi mewn band eang cyflym iawn ar ôl i brosiect Cyflymu Cymru ddod i ben. Bydd y cynlluniau hyn hefyd yn cael eu cyflwyno mewn datganiad ysgrifenedig yn ystod Cyfarfod Llawn ddydd Mawrth 8 Tachwedd.  
  
Fel y dywed Symud Cymru Ymlaen, ein hamcan yw cysylltu pob eiddo yng Nghymru â band eang cyflym a dibynadwy. Gwir fantais band eang cyflym iawn yw ei fod yn gwella bywydau ac yn cefnogi busnesau nawr ac yn y dyfodol.  
  
Ers 2012, mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi buddsoddi dros £162 miliwn o arian cyhoeddus a chyllid yr UE mewn seilwaith band eang ledled Cymru lle nad yw’r ddadl fasnachol ynddo’i hun yn ddigon i sbarduno’r farchnad i fuddsoddi.   
  
Mae’n prosiect mawr ei fri, Cyflymu Cymru, eisoes wedi dod â band eang cyflym iawn i bron 614,000 eiddo ledled Cymru a rhagwelir y caiff 100,000 eiddo arall eu cysylltu cyn y daw’r prosiect i ben yn 2017\.  Mae’n prosiect Allwedd Band Eang Cymru’n cael ei redeg ar y cyd gan ddarparu band eang i ragor na 5,000 o gartrefi a busnesau gan ddefnyddio ystod o dechnolegau sy’n cael eu darparu gan nifer o gyflenwyr gwahanol.   
  
Mae ein Rhaglen Lywodraethu’n ailgadarnhau ein hymrwymiad i fuddsoddi mewn band eang ac adlewyrchir hyn yn gyllideb ddiweddar.   
  
Dros y flwyddyn nesaf, rydym am gyflawni ein hymrwymiad presennol i flwyddyn ola Cyflymu Cymru trwy fuddsoddi hyd at £62 miliwn.  Hefyd, rydym wrthi’n asesu’r ymatebion i’r ymgynghoriad diweddar â’r diwydiant telathrebu ar fuddsoddi £12\.9 miliwn yn ychwanegol i estyn cwmpas prosiect Cyflymu Cymru flwyddyn nesaf.  Dyma’r swm a ragwelwyd gan BT llynedd fyddai’n cael ei roi yn ôl i’r pwrs cyhoeddus trwy gymal cyfran enillion y contract presennol â Cyflymu Cymru.   
  
Mae’r cymal cyfran enillion yn caniatáu i Lywodraeth Cymru elwa ar lwyddiant ein buddsoddiad trwy’r prosiect Cyflymu Cymru yn rhwydwaith BT.  Os bydd mwy na rhagolygon BT ar ddechrau’r contract yn defnyddio’r gwasanaethau band eang, bydd cyfran o’r elw a wneir ar bob gwasanaeth cyfanwerthu pellach y maent yn ei werthu yn cael ei roi mewn cronfa fuddsoddi.  Gellir naill ai ailfuddsoddi’r gronfa yn y prosiect neu ei roi yn ôl gyda llog i Lywodraeth Cymru yn 2023\.  Gan ddibynnu ar waith dadansoddi manwl a thrafodaethau â BT, rydym yn rhagweld y bydd yr arian ychwanegol hwn yn ei gwneud yn bosib inni gysylltu rhagor o gartrefi a busnesau trwy gontract Cyflymu Cymru erbyn Rhagfyr 2017\.    
  
Er mwyn bod yn barod ar gyfer diwedd contract Cyflymu Cymru flwyddyn nesaf, rydym wedi dechrau paratoi ar gyfer sefydlu prosiect buddsoddi i olynu Cyflymu Cymru.    
  
Mae gwaith modelu a rhagolygu gan Lywodraeth Cymru a Llywodraeth y DU yn awgrymu y bydd cronfa fuddsoddi Cyflymu Cymru’n cynhyrchu rhwng £30 miliwn a £50 miliwn erbyn 2023 wrth i rhwng 35 y cant a 50 y cant dros y cyfnod hwnnw ddewis defnyddio’r gwasanaethau ffeibr y talwyd amdanynt gan ein buddsoddiad.  Y ganran o fewn ardal Cyflymu Cymru ar hyn o bryd yw rhyw 29 y cant.   
  
Felly, os cyrhaeddwn y targed o 50 y cant y gwnaethom osod inni’n hunain ym mis Gorffennaf 2015, caiff rhyw £50 miliwn ei ryddhau. O hwnnw, bydd modd ailfuddsoddi rhyw £37 miliwn i gysylltu rhagor o gartrefi a busnesau â band eang cyflym iawn, hynny ar ben y £12\.9m sydd wedi’i ailfuddsoddi yn Cyflymu Cymru.   
  
Gwnaethom ymrwymo £20 miliwn yn y gyllideb ddiweddar dros y pedair blynedd nesaf i gefnogi’r gweithgarwch hwn a byddwn yn defnyddio’r arian i sbarduno buddsoddiad ychwanegol arwyddocaol.   
  
Rydym wrthi’n trafod â Swyddfa Cyllid Ewropeaidd Cymru i sicrhau £20 miliwn pellach o’r Cronfeydd Strwythurol i barhau i ddarparu band eang cyflym iawn.  Megis dechrau mae’r broses ymgeisio ond rydym yn hyderus y cawn yr arian, o’i gymeradwyo gan WEFO, diolch i warant Trysorlys y DU i anrhydeddu bidiau’r UE cyn inni adael yr UE.   
  
Mae gennym ymrwymiad sydd heb ei dalu eto gan Lywodraeth y DU o £2 miliwn ar gyfer prosiect band eang cyflym iawn newydd. Byddwn yn parhau i bwyso ar Lywodraeth y DU am ragor o fuddsoddi yng Nghymru fydd yn adeiladu ar lwyddiant Cyflymu Cymru ac yn cyfrannu at amcanion polisi Llywodraeth y DU.   
  
Rydym yn rhagweld y bydd gan olynydd Cyflymu Cymru, rhwng popeth felly, gyllideb sector cyhoeddus o hyd at £80 miliwn.  Bydd hynny yn ei dro yn sbarduno’r sector preifat i ddarparu cyllid cyfatebol i fynd â band eang i’r busnesau a’r cartrefi anoddaf eu cyrraedd ledled Cymru erbyn 2020\.   
  
Rydym yn adnewyddu’n hymrwymiad hefyd i’r cynllun Allwedd Band Eang Cymru ag £1\.5 miliwn pellach dros y ddwy flynedd nesaf i sicrhau bod y gwasanaeth hanfodol hwn yn parhau i weithredu ar y cyd â Cyflymu Cymru a’r prosiectau olynol gydag arian cyfatebol i’w estyn am ddwy flynedd arall ar ôl 2018\.   
  
Ym mis Tachwedd, byddwn yn lansio Arolwg o’r Farchnad Agored i weld, fesul eiddo, ble mae band eang cyflym iawn wedi’i ddarparu hyd yma, trwy Cyflymu Cymru a thrwy’r sector masnachol.  Byddwn hefyd yn ymgynghori ar ble mae’r farchnad yn bwriadu buddsoddi dros y tair blynedd nesaf.  Byddwn yn ymgysylltu â’r farchnad delathrebu dros yr wythnosau a misoedd nesaf i helpu i siapio a llywio ein hardal weithredu a’n strategaeth gaffael.  Wrth ddatblygu’r prosiect nesaf, bydd cael gwerth ein harian yn parhau’n flaenoriaeth.   
  
Ein bwriad ar hyn o bryd yw lansio’r broses gaffael ym mis Chwefror 2017 er mwyn inni allu dyfarnu contract mewn da bryd inni allu dechrau ei weithredu ym mis Ionawr 2018, hynny ar ôl i brosiect Cyflymu Cymru ddod i ben ym mis Rhagfyr 2017\.