English: Thank you. I would be grateful if, as you stated, your officials would follow up with the group and myself as chair when they have the information to hand. Changing tack, reference was made earlier by my colleague Tom Giffard to residential women's centres in Wales. The UK Government's female offender strategy was published in June 2018 to divert vulnerable female offenders away from short prison sentences wherever possible, invest in community services, and establish five pilot residential women's centres, including one in Wales. Last month, you wrote to Members stating you'd been working closely with the UK Ministry of Justice and announcing that one of these centres would be near Swansea in south Wales. The following week, you issued a written statement to Members with an update on the delivery of the youth justice and women's justice blueprints. With reference to the location of the residential women's centre in Wales, you stated that this would improve the lives of women in Wales, providing a more holistic, trauma-informed approach to delivering services for women who may find themselves involved in the criminal justice system in Wales. Importantly, it will also allow women to stay closer to home and to maintain crucial family ties, especially with their children. However, how will the location of this centre in Swansea help women offenders in north, mid and west Wales to access the services they need closer to home and to maintain their crucial family ties? What action are you taking to support the location of a future centre, hopefully in north Wales?
Welsh: Diolch. Byddwn yn ddiolchgar pe gallai eich swyddogion, fel y dywedoch chi, barhau i weithio gyda'r grŵp a minnau fel cadeirydd pan fydd y wybodaeth honno ganddynt. Gan newid y pwnc, cyfeiriodd fy nghyd-Aelod, Tom Giffard, yn gynharach at ganolfannau preswyl i fenywod yng Nghymru. Cyhoeddwyd strategaeth troseddwyr benywaidd Llywodraeth y DU ym mis Mehefin 2018 er mwyn dargyfeirio troseddwyr benywaidd agored i niwed rhag dedfrydau byr o garchar lle bynnag y bo modd, buddsoddi mewn gwasanaethau cymunedol, a sefydlu pum canolfan breswyl beilot i fenywod, gan gynnwys un yng Nghymru. Fis diwethaf, fe ysgrifennoch chi at yr Aelodau i nodi eich bod wedi bod yn gweithio'n agos gyda Gweinyddiaeth Gyfiawnder y DU a chyhoeddi y byddai un o'r canolfannau hyn ger Abertawe yn ne Cymru. Yr wythnos wedyn, fe gyhoeddoch chi ddatganiad ysgrifenedig i'r Aelodau gyda'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf ar gyflawniad y glasbrintiau ar gyfiawnder ieuenctid a chyfiawnder menywod. Gan gyfeirio at leoliad y ganolfan breswyl i fenywod yng Nghymru, fe ddywedoch chi y byddai hyn yn gwella bywydau menywod yng Nghymru, gan ddarparu dull mwy cyfannol, sy'n ystyriol o drawma, o ddarparu gwasanaethau i fenywod sy'n dod i gysylltiad â'r system cyfiawnder troseddol yng Nghymru. Yn bwysig, bydd hefyd yn caniatáu i fenywod aros yn agosach at adref a chynnal cysylltiadau teuluol hanfodol, yn enwedig gyda'u plant. Fodd bynnag, sut y bydd lleoli'r ganolfan hon yn Abertawe yn helpu troseddwyr benywaidd yng ngogledd, canolbarth a gorllewin Cymru i gael mynediad at y gwasanaethau sydd eu hangen arnynt yn nes at adref ac i gynnal eu cysylltiadau teuluol hollbwysig? Pa gamau rydych yn eu cymryd i gefnogi lleoli canolfan yn y gogledd yn y dyfodol?