English: Well, Llywydd, I'm not aware of any such actions by the UK Government, and I will be very surprised indeed if they were prepared to take any, because they continue to block proposals for waiving intellectual property rights at the World Trade Organization. I know that Jenny Rathbone will be very well aware that it's a year - more than a year now - since South Africa and India proposed a temporary waiver for intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and took that proposition to the World Trade Organization. In May of this year, the United States declared themselves in favour of such a waiver, and well over 100 countries have now put their weight behind that. A relatively small number of countries around the world continues to block those discussions, and the UK Government is one of them. The WTO last met at the end of October, and I'm afraid that the reports were that negotiations on a waiver are deadlocked and direction-less because of that handful of countries. That is why I have written to the Prime Minister urging him to remove the United Kingdom from that position; that we should support the position put forward by South Africa and India, but by the United States as well, because that would unlock the position where we wouldn't be reliant upon the goodwill of individual pharmaceutical companies, but there would be a concerted across-the-globe position where intellectual property rights would not be a barrier to getting the rest of the world vaccinated. I'm reminded of what the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said only a few days ago: that the well-resourced west is playing Russian roulette with COVID-19, and that while we don't make the effort we need to make to make sure that everybody is vaccinated, somewhere in the world, a variant is brewing that may be one that completely escapes vaccine protection, that will be more serious than the versions we currently are dealing with. It's in everybody's interest, exactly in the way that Jenny Rathbone said, to make sure that the whole of the world's population has the protection of vaccination, and a temporary waiver on intellectual property rights would be one important step in helping to secure that outcome.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, nid wyf i'n ymwybodol o unrhyw gamau o'r fath gan Lywodraeth y DU, a byddwn yn synnu'n fawr iawn pe baen nhw'n barod i gymryd unrhyw gamau, oherwydd maen nhw'n parhau i rwystro cynigion ar gyfer hepgor hawliau eiddo deallusol yn Sefydliad Masnach y Byd. Gwn y bydd Jenny Rathbone yn ymwybodol iawn ei bod hi'n flwyddyn - dros flwyddyn bellach - ers i Dde Affrica ac India gynnig hepgoriad dros dro o hawliau eiddo deallusol ar frechlynnau COVID-19 gan wneud y cynnig hwnnw i Sefydliad Masnach y Byd. Ym mis Mai eleni, cyhoeddodd yr Unol Daleithiau eu bod nhw o blaid hepgoriad o'r fath, ac mae ymhell dros 100 o wledydd bellach wedi rhoi eu pwysau y tu ôl i hynny. Mae nifer gymharol fach o wledydd ledled y byd yn parhau i rwystro'r trafodaethau hynny, ac mae Llywodraeth y DU yn un ohonyn nhw. Cyfarfu Sefydliad Masnach y Byd ddiwethaf ddiwedd mis Hydref, ac mae arnaf ofn mai'r adroddiadau oedd bod trafodaethau ar hepgoriad wedi pallu ac yn ddigyfeiriad oherwydd y llond llaw hwnnw o wledydd. Dyna pam yr wyf i wedi ysgrifennu at Brif Weinidog y DU yn ei annog i dynnu'r Deyrnas Unedig o'r sefyllfa honno; y dylem ni gefnogi'r safbwynt a gyflwynwyd gan Dde Affrica ac India, ond gan yr Unol Daleithiau hefyd, oherwydd byddai hynny'n datgloi'r sefyllfa lle na fyddem ni'n ddibynnol ar ewyllys da cwmnïau fferyllol unigol, ond byddai safbwynt cyson ar draws y byd lle na fyddai hawliau eiddo deallusol yn rhwystr rhag brechu gweddill y byd. Fe'm hatgoffir o'r hyn a ddywedodd cyn Brif Weinidog y DU Gordon Brown ychydig ddyddiau yn unig yn ôl: bod y gorllewin sydd ag adnoddau da yn chwarae rwlét y Rwsiaid gyda COVID-19, a thra nad ydym ni'n gwneud yr ymdrech y mae angen i ni ei gwneud i wneud yn siŵr bod pawb yn cael eu brechu, rywle yn y byd, mae amrywiolyn yn datblygu a allai fod yn un sy'n dianc rhag diogelwch brechlynnau yn llwyr, a fydd yn fwy difrifol na'r fersiynau yr ydym ni'n ymdrin â nhw ar hyn o bryd. Mae er budd pawb, yn yr union ffordd y dywedodd Jenny Rathbone, i wneud yn siŵr bod poblogaeth y byd i gyd yn cael diogelwch brechiad, a byddai hepgoriad dros dro o hawliau eiddo deallusol yn un cam pwysig o ran helpu i sicrhau'r canlyniad hwnnw.