English: Thank you. Actually, part of the conversation that I did have with the Counsel General was exactly on this basis: the potential to develop apprenticeships and for paralegal occupations as well. Some of the work for those paralegals is on track to be introduced in January. The qualification route for qualified lawyers is something that we're still examining. I understand - and I think this is reasonable - that law firms that were caught up in the apprenticeship levy do not feel that they've got value for money; there's been a tax with no return in apprenticeships and I understand that concern. It's a similar concern for a range of other businesses too. What's different, of course, about the legal profession is that we don't have an undersupply of lawyers; the challenge is who accesses the legal profession and what can be done about those people from relatively under-represented parts of our society within the profession. The alternative challenge for us, in the Welsh Government, is a sense of priority. If we put funding into degree apprenticeships for lawyers when, for example, I self-funded - I took out a loan to undertake my own course - . I had the benefit and the comfort of a training contract, but I then repaid that during my working life - the loan that I had taken out. It's about whether or not we do need to have alternative routes to qualification; it's one of the recommendations of the Thomas commission. So, we're scoping that work out within the Government and we're looking to talk to the profession about it. But, of course, the arrangements for law firms to support people into study, they're in a different place to other parts of life, where degree apprenticeships may make a larger difference. Degree apprenticeships themselves have a good track record of getting people into higher value, higher skilled jobs. We, of course, have a significant budgetary challenge to manage, given the smash and grab on our budgets with the way that the levelling-up funds have been allocated in future. So, there are very real practical questions about what we can do, not so much about what we want to do, but the Counsel General and I remain engaged in really constructive discussions to try and find a way forward.
Welsh: Diolch. Mewn gwirionedd, roedd rhan o'r sgwrs a gefais gyda'r Cwnsler Cyffredinol ar yr union sail hon: y potensial i ddatblygu prentisiaethau ac ar gyfer galwedigaethau paragyfreithiol hefyd. Mae peth o'r gwaith paragyfreithiol ar y trywydd cywir i gael ei gyflwyno ym mis Ionawr. Mae'r llwybr cymhwyster ar gyfer cyfreithwyr cymwysedig yn rhywbeth rydym yn dal i'w archwilio. Rwy'n deall - a chredaf fod hyn yn rhesymol - nad yw cwmnïau cyfreithiol a gafodd eu dal gan yr ardoll brentisiaethau yn teimlo'u bod yn cael gwerth am arian; cafwyd treth heb unrhyw enillion ar brentisiaethau a deallaf y pryder hwnnw. Mae'n bryder tebyg i amryw o fusnesau eraill hefyd. Yr hyn sy'n wahanol, wrth gwrs, am y proffesiwn cyfreithiol yw nad oes gennym brinder cyfreithwyr; mae'r her yn ymwneud â phwy sy'n mynd i'r proffesiwn cyfreithiol a'r hyn y gellir ei wneud am bobl o rannau o'n cymdeithas nad ydynt wedi'u cynrychioli'n ddigonol o fewn y proffesiwn. Yr her amgen i ni, yn Llywodraeth Cymru, yw ymdeimlad o flaenoriaeth. Pe byddem yn darparu cyllid ar gyfer prentisiaethau gradd i gyfreithwyr pan oeddwn i, er enghraifft, yn ariannu fy hun - cefais fenthyciad i wneud fy nghwrs - . Cefais y budd a'r cysur o gontract hyfforddi, ond ad-dalais hwnnw wedyn yn ystod fy mywyd gwaith - y benthyciad a gefais. Mae'n ymwneud ag a oes angen i ni gael llwybrau amgen i gymhwyster ai peidio; mae'n un o argymhellion comisiwn Thomas. Felly, rydym yn cwmpasu'r gwaith hwnnw o fewn y Llywodraeth ac rydym yn bwriadu siarad â'r proffesiwn amdano. Ond wrth gwrs, mae'r trefniadau i gwmnïau cyfreithiol gefnogi pobl i astudio mewn lle gwahanol i rannau eraill o fywyd, lle gall prentisiaethau gradd wneud gwahaniaeth mwy. Mae gan brentisiaethau gradd eu hunain hanes da o gael pobl i swyddi sgiliau uwch, gwerth uwch. Wrth gwrs, mae gennym her gyllidebol sylweddol i'w rheoli, o ystyried y modd y cafodd ein cyllidebau eu bachu gyda'r ffordd y dyrannwyd yr arian codi'r gwastad ar gyfer y dyfodol. Felly, mae yna gwestiynau ymarferol go iawn am yr hyn y gallwn ei wneud, nid yn gymaint yr hyn rydym eisiau ei wneud, ond mae'r Cwnsler Cyffredinol a minnau'n parhau i gynnal trafodaethau adeiladol iawn i geisio dod o hyd i ffordd ymlaen.