English: Well, Llywydd, it's because of the priority that we have always attached to social services that social services in Wales have not suffered from the cuts that have been experienced across our border. Our social services do face very considerable pressures from demography and other factors - I absolutely acknowledge that - but they are in a better place to face those pressures than other services are elsewhere. The Member will have seen the report published only last week by Wales Public Services 2025 that confirms that, again, in this financial year, spending on health and social services in Wales is 106 per cent of spending in England, and it's why, in the budget that was put in front of this Assembly for next year, in agreement with Plaid Cymru, £25 million extra was identified in the RSG for social services, and then a further £10 million recurrent funding was identified between the final and draft budget, to help social services departments come to a tripartite solution to the pressures of the so-called living wage in social care. In the run-up to the budget, I wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, urging him to find additional funding for social care, and that matter will certainly be on the table when colleagues in the Cabinet meet on Tuesday of next week to discuss the consequentials. How that money is used, if any of it can be made available for social services, will of course be a matter for the Minister concerned, but she will certainly be aware of the Member's views and will have heard what she has said this afternoon.
Welsh: Wel, Lywydd, y flaenoriaeth honno yr ydym bob amser wedi ei rhoi i'r gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yw'r rheswm pam nad yw gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yng Nghymru wedi dioddef o'r toriadau a wnaed ar draws y ffin. Mae ein gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yn wynebu pwysau sylweddol iawn o ganlyniad i ddemograffeg a ffactorau eraill - rwy'n cydnabod hynny'n llwyr - ond maent mewn lle gwell i wynebu'r pwysau hynny na gwasanaethau eraill mewn mannau eraill. Bydd yr Aelod wedi gweld yr adroddiad a gyhoeddwyd yr wythnos diwethaf gan Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru 2025 sy'n cadarnhau, unwaith eto, bod gwariant ar iechyd a gwasanaethau cymdeithasol yng Nghymru yn y flwyddyn ariannol hon yn 106 y cant o'r gwariant yn Lloegr, a dyna pam, yn y gyllideb a roddwyd gerbron y Cynulliad hwn ar gyfer y flwyddyn nesaf, mewn cytundeb â Phlaid Cymru, y cafodd £25 miliwn ychwanegol ei nodi yn y Grant Cynnal Refeniw ar gyfer gwasanaethau cymdeithasol, ac yna cafodd £10 miliwn o gyllid rheolaidd pellach ei nodi rhwng y gyllideb derfynol a'r gyllideb ddrafft, i helpu adrannau gwasanaethau cymdeithasol i ddod o hyd i ateb teiran i bwysau'r hyn a elwir yn gyflog byw mewn gofal cymdeithasol. Yn y cyfnod yn arwain at y gyllideb, ysgrifennais at Ganghellor y Trysorlys, yn ei annog i ddod o hyd i gyllid ychwanegol ar gyfer gofal cymdeithasol, a bydd y mater hwnnw'n sicr o gael ei drafod pan fydd cyd-Aelodau yn y Cabinet yn cyfarfod ddydd Mawrth yr wythnos nesaf i drafod y symiau canlyniadol. Bydd sut y caiff yr arian hwnnw ei ddefnyddio, os gellir sicrhau y bydd unrhyw ran ohono ar gael ar gyfer gwasanaethau cymdeithasol, wrth gwrs, yn fater i'r Gweinidog dan sylw, ond bydd hi'n sicr yn ymwybodol o farn yr Aelod a bydd wedi clywed yr hyn a ddywedodd y prynhawn yma.