English: I'm delighted to support the Conservative motion today. I can also say that I can support the Government amendment to it, basically because it doesn't really say anything. But it's a good turnout that we have, at least on this side of the Chamber today. There is, of course, what we might call an aching void in front of us on my left, apart from the few distinguished sentinels of socialism who have come to watch the proceedings and report back. The first thing I want to do is to rise to the challenge that Steffan Lewis threw out earlier on to Nick Ramsay about what's our vision for Wales on devolved taxes. I'm very much in favour of devolved taxes, because it gives us the opportunity in Wales to add to our natural advantages, particularly in relation to the tourism industry. I strongly, therefore, support the Plaid Cymru call for differential rates of VAT. It gives us the opportunity to reduce the tax burden in Wales relative to our neighbours, and that, therefore, will perhaps help to correct the imbalance that has grown up over the years, and which has been very eloquently described many times in this Chamber by Adam Price, about the poverty of Wales compared to other parts of the United Kingdom and how we need to do something really dramatic to correct that. My motivating force in politics all my life has been the ancient Gladstonian principle of allowing money to fructify in the pockets of the people. So, I have always generally opposed the introduction of new taxes and called for a reduction in the existing tax burden. And I think we have to recognise the economic background against which any proposal to introduce new taxes in Wales would have to be measured. The IFS has recently produced figures to show that we are now, in Britain, facing the highest tax burden that we've had since 1986. There are £17 billion-worth of tax rises in train for the rest of this Parliament, and, if the Government sticks to its stated objective of wiping out the deficit by 2025, that means an extra £34 billion of taxes. I'll give way, sure.
Welsh: Rwy'n falch iawn o gefnogi cynnig y Ceidwadwyr heddiw. Gallaf hefyd ddweud fy mod yn gallu cefnogi gwelliant y Llywodraeth iddo, yn y bôn oherwydd nad yw'n dweud unrhyw beth mewn gwirionedd. Ond mae llawer ohonom yn bresennol yma heddiw, ar yr ochr hon i'r Siambr o leiaf. Wrth gwrs, ceir yr hyn y gallem ei alw'n wacter poenus o'n blaenau ar fy ochr chwith, ar wahân i'r ychydig o warchodwyr sosialaeth sydd wedi dod i wylio'r trafodion ac adrodd yn ôl. Y peth cyntaf rwyf am ei wneud yw ymateb i'r her a roddodd Steffan Lewis yn gynharach i Nick Ramsay ynglŷn â beth yw ein gweledigaeth ar gyfer Cymru mewn perthynas â threthi datganoledig. Rwy'n fawr iawn o blaid trethi datganoledig, gan ei fod yn rhoi cyfle i ni yng Nghymru ychwanegu at ein manteision naturiol, yn enwedig o ran y diwydiant twristiaeth. Rwy'n cefnogi galwad Plaid Cymru am gyfraddau TAW gwahaniaethol yn gryf. Mae'n rhoi cyfle inni leihau'r baich treth yng Nghymru o'i gymharu â'n cymdogion, ac felly, efallai y bydd yn helpu i gywiro'r anghydbwysedd sydd wedi tyfu dros y blynyddoedd, ac a ddisgrifiwyd yn huawdl iawn lawer gwaith yn y Siambr hon gan Adam Price, am dlodi Cymru o gymharu â rhannau eraill o'r Deyrnas Unedig, a sut y mae angen i ni wneud rhywbeth gwirioneddol ddramatig i gywiro hynny. Fy ngrym ysgogol mewn gwleidyddiaeth ar hyd fy oes yw egwyddor hynafol Gladstone o ganiatáu i arian ffrwytho ym mhocedi'r bobl. Felly, at ei gilydd rwyf bob amser wedi gwrthwynebu camau i gyflwyno trethi newydd ac wedi galw am ostyngiad yn y baich treth presennol. Ac rwy'n meddwl bod yn rhaid inni gydnabod y cefndir economaidd y buasai'n rhaid mesur unrhyw gynnig i gyflwyno trethi newydd yng Nghymru yn ei erbyn. Mae'r Sefydliad Astudiaethau Cyllid wedi cynhyrchu ffigurau yn ddiweddar i ddangos ein bod bellach, ym Mhrydain, yn wynebu'r baich treth uchaf a gawsom ers 1986. Mae gwerth £17 biliwn o godiadau treth i ddilyn ar gyfer gweddill y Senedd hon, ac os yw'r Llywodraeth yn glynu at ei hamcan datganedig o ddileu'r diffyg erbyn 2025, mae hynny'n golygu £34 biliwn yn ychwanegol o drethi. Fe ildiaf, yn sicr.