English: Oscar, it is important that local authorities are responsible for school funding in Wales, and that is set out in law. I'm not sure if the Member is advocating removing that power away from our colleagues in local government. I certainly think that our partners in local government would take a very strong view about removing that power from them. It's also important to realise that there is not a free-for-all for local authorities with regard to how they set their individual funding formulas within a local authority. The regulations require 70 per cent of funding for schools budgets to be distributed on the basis of the number of pupils in the school, and authorities have the leeway of 30 per cent to be able to adjust to individual circumstances. I do hear that maybe what you're hinting at is that we have a single funding formula and a single figure to fund education across Wales. On the face of it, I can see why there is an attractiveness to that, but when we consider the great diversity of the Welsh education system - a system that delivers bilingually, a system that delivers for large city-centre schools with a diverse population, many children coming to our schools that don't have English as a first language, to those very, very small rural schools where it is inevitable that the cost of education will be more expensive given the size of those schools - it perhaps is not so easy to come up with a single figure that actually covers the educational needs of Wales's very varied communities and the great diversity that we have in our education system. But I'm always open to Members' suggestions as to what changes they want to see to the formula, whether they want to see more money spent on deprivation or rurality or bilingualism, but, of course, that has to be done in the envelope that is available to us, and I don't see anybody standing up in this Chamber offering up money from their schools to be given to other people's schools.
Welsh: Oscar, mae'n bwysig fod awdurdodau lleol yn gyfrifol am ariannu ysgolion yng Nghymru, a nodir hynny yn y gyfraith. Nid wyf yn siŵr a yw'r Aelod yn awgrymu y dylid amddifadu ein cydweithwyr mewn llywodraeth leol o'r pŵer hwnnw. Yn sicr, credaf y byddai gan ein partneriaid mewn llywodraeth leol farn gref iawn ynglŷn â mynd â'r pŵer hwnnw oddi wrthynt. Mae hefyd yn bwysig sylweddoli nad oes gan awdurdodau lleol rwydd hynt o ran sut y maent yn pennu eu fformiwlâu ariannu unigol o fewn awdurdod lleol. Mae'r rheoliadau'n nodi bod yn rhaid i 70 y cant o'r arian ar gyfer cyllidebau ysgolion gael ei ddosbarthu ar sail nifer y disgyblion yn yr ysgol, ac mae gan awdurdodau ryddid o 30 y cant i allu addasu i amgylchiadau unigol. Clywaf yr hyn rydych yn ei awgrymu, o bosibl, sef fod gennym un fformiwla ariannu ac un ffigur i ariannu addysg ledled Cymru. Ar yr wyneb, gallaf weld pam fod hynny'n atyniadol, ond pan fyddwn yn ystyried yr amrywiaeth eang o fewn system addysg Cymru - system sy'n darparu'n ddwyieithog, system sy'n darparu ar gyfer ysgolion mawr yng nghanol dinasoedd â chanddynt boblogaethau amrywiol, llawer o blant yn dod i'n hysgolion heb Saesneg fel iaith gyntaf, i'r ysgolion gwledig bach iawn lle mae'n anochel y bydd cost addysg yn ddrytach o ystyried maint yr ysgolion hynny - efallai nad yw pennu un ffigur sy'n darparu ar gyfer anghenion addysgol cymunedau amrywiol iawn Cymru a'r amrywiaeth wych sydd gennym yn ein system addysg mor hawdd â hynny. Ond rwyf bob amser yn agored i awgrymiadau'r Aelodau ynglŷn â pha newidiadau y maent am eu gweld i'r fformiwla, a ydynt am weld mwy o arian yn cael ei wario ar amddifadedd, natur wledig neu ddwyieithrwydd, ond wrth gwrs, mae'n rhaid gwneud hynny o fewn yr amlen sydd ar gael i ni, ac ni welaf unrhyw un yn sefyll ar eu traed yn y Siambr hon yn cynnig arian o'u hysgolion i'w roi i ysgolion pobl eraill.