English: This month's Finance Committee report, as you've heard, on the Welsh Government's third supplementary budget for 2020-21 reports that this allocates almost £1.3 billion additional fiscal resource and almost £837 million in capital, with the main increases in economy and transport, housing and local government, and education. The backdrop is the £5.2 billion provided by the UK Government to the Welsh Government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The additional £650 million this financial year brings this to £5.85 billion, on top of £1.4 billion increased Welsh Government funding for 2020-21 following increased spending on public services in England. The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer has already confirmed that the Welsh Government will have at least an additional £1.3 billion to spend in next year's budget, and his budget last week added a further £740 million of funding to the Welsh Government. The Finance Committee recommends that the Welsh Government continues to press the UK Government for clear, systematic changes to the funding process in relation to the structure of UK fiscal events. Further, the Minister told us that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury did allow a degree of flexibility in terms of carrying forward any consequentials generated through the operation of the Barnett formula over and above the £5.2 billion guaranteed funding previously confirmed on 23 December. So, the supplementary budget details the £660 million that will be carrying over into next year, and that is because of the very late notification. However, she fails to acknowledge that the excuse constantly given by the Welsh Government for its slow responses to just about everything, the COVID-19 pandemic, also applies to other Governments, and that, despite this, the UK Treasury worked closely with all three devolved Governments this financial year. As the Chief Secretary to the Treasury stated in his 23 February letter to the Finance Committee, officials have had even more frequent engagement; a full breakdown of 2021-22 funding was provided at the spending review 2020 last November, and they will also publish the next iteration of block grant transparency later this year, which will, again, include a full and detailed breakdown of funding. In reality, therefore, the Minister doth protest too much to justify carrying forward so much funding to spend at a later date. As our report also states, reassurance is required from the Welsh Government that the funding provided to local authorities is taking full account of the differential impact of COVID-19 on local authority incomes. And the committee recognises that the role that the third sector plays in providing services that support health, social and local services has also been impacted in terms of ability to raise revenue. The level of additional funding that this sector is receiving is modest in comparison, as the Chair said, to the support given to the health service, and that will cost the health service dear.
Welsh: Mae adroddiad y Pwyllgor Cyllid y mis hwn, fel y clywsoch chi, ar drydedd gyllideb atodol Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2020-21 yn nodi bod hyn yn dyrannu bron i £1.3 biliwn o adnoddau cyllidol ychwanegol a bron i £837 miliwn mewn cyfalaf, gyda'r prif gynnydd yn yr economi a thrafnidiaeth, tai a llywodraeth leol, ac addysg. Y cefndir yw'r £5.2 biliwn a ddarparwyd gan Lywodraeth y DU i Lywodraeth Cymru er mwyn brwydro yn erbyn pandemig COVID-19 yn 2020. Mae'r £650 miliwn ychwanegol y flwyddyn ariannol hon yn dod â hyn i £5.85 biliwn, ar ben £1.4 biliwn yn fwy o gyllid gan Lywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer 2020-21 yn dilyn mwy o wariant ar wasanaethau cyhoeddus yn Lloegr. Mae Canghellor Trysorlys y DU eisoes wedi cadarnhau y bydd gan Lywodraeth Cymru o leiaf £1.3 biliwn ychwanegol i'w wario yng nghyllideb y flwyddyn nesaf, ac ychwanegodd ei gyllideb yr wythnos diwethaf £740 miliwn pellach o gyllid i Lywodraeth Cymru. Mae'r Pwyllgor Cyllid yn argymell bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn parhau i bwyso ar Lywodraeth y DU am newidiadau clir a systematig i'r broses ariannu mewn cysylltiad â strwythur digwyddiadau cyllidol y DU. At hynny, dywedodd y Gweinidog wrthym fod Prif Ysgrifennydd y Trysorlys wedi caniatáu rhywfaint o hyblygrwydd o ran bwrw ymlaen ag unrhyw symiau canlyniadol a gynhyrchwyd drwy weithredu fformiwla Barnett yn ychwanegol at y £5.2 biliwn o gyllid gwarantedig a gadarnhawyd yn flaenorol ar 23 Rhagfyr. Felly, mae'r gyllideb atodol yn manylu ar y £660 miliwn a ddygir ymlaen i'r flwyddyn nesaf, ac mae hynny oherwydd yr hysbysiad hwyr iawn. Fodd bynnag, nid yw'n cydnabod bod yr esgus a roddir yn gyson gan Lywodraeth Cymru am ei hymatebion araf i bopeth bron iawn, pandemig COVID-19, hefyd yn berthnasol i Lywodraethau eraill, a bod Trysorlys y DU, er gwaethaf hyn, wedi gweithio'n agos gyda phob un o'r tair Llywodraeth ddatganoledig yn ystod y flwyddyn ariannol hon. Fel y dywedodd Prif Ysgrifennydd y Trysorlys yn ei lythyr ar 23 Chwefror at y Pwyllgor Cyllid, mae swyddogion wedi ymgysylltu'n amlach fyth; darparwyd dadansoddiad llawn o gyllid 2021-22 yn adolygiad gwariant 2020 fis Tachwedd diwethaf, a byddant hefyd yn cyhoeddi'r iteriad nesaf o dryloywder y grant bloc yn ddiweddarach eleni, a fydd, unwaith eto, yn cynnwys dadansoddiad llawn a manwl o'r cyllid. Mewn gwirionedd, felly, mae'r Gweinidog yn ymdrechu'n rhy galed i gyfiawnhau dwyn cymaint o arian ymlaen i'w wario yn ddiweddarach. Fel y dywed ein hadroddiad hefyd, mae angen sicrwydd gan Lywodraeth Cymru bod yr arian a ddarperir i awdurdodau lleol yn rhoi ystyriaeth lawn i effaith wahaniaethol COVID-19 ar incwm awdurdodau lleol. Ac mae'r pwyllgor yn cydnabod yr effeithiwyd hefyd ar swyddogaeth y trydydd sector wrth ddarparu gwasanaethau sy'n cefnogi gwasanaethau iechyd, cymdeithasol a lleol, o ran y gallu i godi refeniw. Mae lefel y cyllid ychwanegol y mae'r sector hwn yn ei gael yn fach o'i gymharu, fel y dywedodd y Cadeirydd, â'r cymorth a roddir i'r gwasanaeth iechyd, a bydd hynny'n costio'n ddrud i'r gwasanaeth iechyd.