English: Well, Llywydd, I thank Sioned Williams for some of those very important facts. I think I've reported previously to the Senedd that the Cabinet's cost-of-living committee is meeting weekly, and, at the start of each meeting, we are currently hearing from expert groups who are able to give us the most up-to-date information and ideas as to how we can do more to help people in Wales. The Cabinet committee met yesterday, and yesterday the expert evidence was indeed from the Bevan Foundation. The chief executive of the foundation went through a number of the points that Sioned Williams has raised this afternoon, and went through with us the things that the foundation believes are having a positive impact here in Wales, both the things that we have done jointly with Plaid Cymru in extending free school meals - and there are over 4,000 children additionally in the Member's region receiving a free school meal as a result of the work that we have done together - and looking at the impact of the help that we give with the cost of the school day, and with the discretionary assistance fund, with over 4,500 awards in the Member's region alone in September. All of those practical things that we are able to do, and it is the practicalities that this Government is focused on. There is work going on, led by my colleague Jane Hutt, on a child poverty strategy, but, for the moment, we are focused less on strategising than we are on identifying those practical actions that we can assist with that will help those families and those children through this winter. I'm very pleased, Llywydd, to see more local authorities setting out the ways in which they will use the discretionary fund that we've provided to them to help families through this winter, and I know that Sioned Williams will be pleased to see that, in Bridgend for example, in her region, the local authority has decided to use the money that they now have to provide families with £50 for every child in every family who is receiving free school meals, and £150 to all those families with children who are living in temporary accommodation. Where there are further ideas, and further things that we can work on together, then, of course, the Welsh Government will always be keen to explore ideas that are practical, and which, from a financial perspective, are within the bounds of the possible.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, diolch i Sioned Williams am rai o'r ffeithiau pwysig iawn hynny. Rwy'n credu fy mod i wedi adrodd yn flaenorol i'r Senedd bod pwyllgor costau byw'r Cabinet yn cyfarfod yn wythnosol, ac, ar ddechrau pob cyfarfod, rydym ni'n clywed ar hyn o bryd gan grwpiau arbenigol sy'n gallu rhoi'r wybodaeth a'r syniadau diweddaraf i ni ynglŷn â sut y gallwn ni wneud mwy i helpu pobl yng Nghymru. Fe wnaeth pwyllgor y Cabinet gyfarfod ddoe, a ddoe roedd y dystiolaeth arbenigol yn wir gan Sefydliad Bevan. Aeth prif weithredwr y sefydliad drwy nifer o'r pwyntiau y mae Sioned Williams wedi eu codi y prynhawn yma, ac aeth drwy'r pethau y mae'r sefydliad yn credu sy'n cael effaith gadarnhaol yma yng Nghymru gyda ni, y pethau rydym ni wedi eu gwneud ar y cyd â Phlaid Cymru i ymestyn prydau ysgol am ddim - ac mae dros 4,000 o blant ychwanegol yn rhanbarth yr Aelod yn derbyn pryd ysgol am ddim o ganlyniad i'r gwaith rydym ni wedi ei wneud gyda'n gilydd - ac edrych ar effaith y cymorth rydym ni'n ei roi gyda chost y diwrnod ysgol, a gyda'r gronfa cymorth dewisol, gyda dros 4,500 o ddyfarniadau yn rhanbarth yr Aelod yn unig ym mis Medi. Yr holl bethau ymarferol hynny yr ydym ni'n gallu eu gwneud, a'r agweddau ymarferol y mae'r Llywodraeth hon yn canolbwyntio arnyn nhw. Mae gwaith yn cael ei wneud, dan arweiniad fy nghyd-Weinidog Jane Hutt, ar strategaeth tlodi plant ond, ar hyn o bryd, rydym ni'n canolbwyntio llai ar strategeiddio nag yr ydym ni ar nodi'r camau ymarferol hynny y gallwn ni gynorthwyo â nhw a fydd yn helpu'r teuluoedd hynny a'r plant hynny drwy'r gaeaf hwn. Rwy'n falch iawn, Llywydd, o weld mwy o awdurdodau lleol yn nodi'r ffyrdd y byddan nhw'n defnyddio'r gronfa ddewisol yr ydym ni wedi ei darparu iddyn nhw i helpu teuluoedd drwy'r gaeaf hwn, a gwn y bydd Sioned Williams yn falch o weld, ym Mhen-y-bont ar Ogwr, er enghraifft, yn ei rhanbarth hi, bod yr awdurdod lleol wedi penderfynu defnyddio'r arian sydd ganddyn nhw nawr i ddarparu £50 i deuluoedd ar gyfer pob plentyn ym mhob teulu sy'n derbyn prydau ysgol am ddim, a £150 i'r holl deuluoedd hynny sydd â phlant sy'n byw mewn llety dros dro. Lle mae syniadau pellach, a phethau pellach y gallwn ni weithio arnyn nhw gyda'n gilydd, yna, wrth gwrs, bydd Llywodraeth Cymru bob amser yn awyddus i ymchwilio i syniadau sy'n ymarferol, ac sydd, o safbwynt ariannol, o fewn ffiniau'r posibl.