English: Can I thank Mark Reckless for his comments? As I said, it's an important principle to me that there is portability of the package, allowing students to make choices about where they study. I don't know about deliberately trying to weaken the bonds of the union, but I think where the Welsh system does compare very favourably to Scotland is in terms of social mobility - I don't know about outward mobility, but actually social mobility - in the number of students who go to a university and the backgrounds that they come from. Because there are caps on the number of places, effectively, in Scottish universities, it does mean, I would argue, that perhaps they haven't seen the growth in the number of students from poorer backgrounds going to university that our student finance system has allowed us to do. So, I don't know about outward mobility, but I do think our system compares favourably in supporting social mobility and in ensuring that no matter what your background, you have the opportunity to benefit from higher education if you have the desire and the academic ability to do so, and that is not constrained by your parents or your financial ability to do so. I think that's a really important principle. With regard to support for the sector and for students, we have created pro rata the largest level of student support during this COVID phase anywhere in the United Kingdom, I believe, with the £50 million that we've made available. As I said in answer to Bethan Jenkins and Suzy Davies, we can't take all the disruption and impact away from COVID, but we can support students at this time who are worried financially or whose well-being has been affected by the experience that they have gone through. That money has been put there to try and address that. At this stage we have no plans for a student fee rebate. That's partly because - and Mr Reckless knows probably as much as anybody in the Chamber about this - the issue of Treasury and the loan book being held in Westminster, and some of the complicating factors that make this not necessarily a decision that is easy to do on a unilateral basis. With regard to student number controls, it was a source of regret last year that we were not able to work together collaboratively across the United Kingdom. Can I say that I do now meet on a very regular basis with my counterpart Michelle Donelan from the Westminster Government? I'm sure that such a situation would be avoided this year because communications and meetings are much improved. I'm sure that we can avoid a situation this year, because we are committed - myself and Michelle - to avoiding the situation that we found ourselves in last year.
Welsh: A gaf i ddiolch i Mark Reckless am ei sylwadau? Fel y dywedais, mae'n egwyddor bwysig i mi fod y pecyn ar gael yn unrhyw le, gan ganiatáu i fyfyrwyr wneud dewisiadau ynghylch ble maen nhw'n astudio. Dydw i ddim yn gwybod ynghylch ceisio gwanhau bondiau'r undeb yn fwriadol, ond rwy'n credu mai'r hyn sy'n peri i system Cymru gymharu'n ffafriol iawn â'r Alban yw symudedd cymdeithasol - dydw i ddim yn gwybod am symudedd allanol, ond symudedd cymdeithasol mewn gwirionedd - yn nifer y myfyrwyr sy'n mynd i brifysgol a'r cefndiroedd y maen nhw'n dod ohonyn nhw. Gan fod capiau ar nifer y lleoedd, i bob pwrpas, ym mhrifysgolion yr Alban, mae'n golygu, byddwn yn dadlau, efallai nad ydynt wedi gweld y twf yn nifer y myfyrwyr o gefndiroedd tlotach sy'n mynd i'r brifysgol y mae ein system cyllid myfyrwyr ni wedi ei ganiatáu. Felly, nid wyf yn gwybod am symudedd allanol, ond rwy'n credu bod ein system yn cymharu'n ffafriol wrth gefnogi symudedd cymdeithasol ac o ran sicrhau, ni waeth beth yw eich cefndir, bod gennych chi gyfle i elwa ar addysg uwch os oes gennych yr awydd a'r gallu academaidd i wneud hynny, ac nad yw hynny wedi ei lesteirio gan allu eich rhieni na'ch gallu ariannol i wneud hynny. Rwy'n credu bod honno'n egwyddor bwysig iawn. O ran cymorth i'r sector ac i fyfyrwyr, rydym wedi creu, pro rata, y lefel fwyaf o gymorth i fyfyrwyr yn ystod y cyfnod COVID hwn o'i gymharu ag unrhyw le yn y Deyrnas Unedig, rwy'n credu, gyda'r £50 miliwn yr ydym ni wedi'i ddarparu. Fel y dywedais wrth ateb Bethan Jenkins a Suzy Davies, ni allwn ddileu'r holl darfu ac effaith COVID, ond gallwn gefnogi myfyrwyr ar hyn o bryd sy'n poeni'n ariannol neu y mae'r profiad y maen nhw wedi mynd drwyddo wedi effeithio ar eu llesiant. Mae'r arian hwnnw wedi ei gyflwyno i geisio mynd i'r afael â hynny. Ar hyn o bryd nid oes gennym unrhyw gynlluniau ar gyfer ad-dalu ffioedd myfyrwyr. Mae hynny'n rhannol oherwydd - ac mae Mr Reckless yn gwybod cymaint ag unrhyw un yn y Siambr am hyn, mae'n debyg - mater y Trysorlys a'r llyfr benthyciadau sy'n cael ei gynnal yn San Steffan, a rhai o'r ffactorau cymhleth sy'n gwneud hwn yn benderfyniad nad yw o reidrwydd yn un hawdd ei wneud ar sail unochrog. O ran rheoli niferoedd myfyrwyr, roedd hi'n destun gofid y llynedd nad oeddem yn gallu cydweithio ar draws y Deyrnas Unedig. A gaf i ddweud fy mod nawr yn cyfarfod yn rheolaidd iawn â'm cyd-weinidog Michelle Donelan o Lywodraeth San Steffan? Rwy'n siŵr y byddai sefyllfa o'r fath yn cael ei hosgoi eleni oherwydd bod cyfathrebu a chyfarfodydd wedi gwella'n fawr. Rwy'n siŵr y gallwn osgoi sefyllfa eleni, oherwydd rydym ni wedi ymrwymo - fi a Michelle - i osgoi'r sefyllfa y cawsom ein hunain ynddi y llynedd.