English: Thank you. From previous scrutiny that I've laid before you, you will be aware of my view that the Welsh Government certainly does have a role to play in tackling rural crime. I would like to highlight an article in a recent Farmers Guardian publication. The headline reads: 'Organised gangs target farm quad bikes'. So, we're not talking about the odd quad bike being stolen, but we're talking now about organised gangs, and that is far more ramped up in terms of criminal behaviour. Data from NFU Mutual shows that thefts are continuing to rise year on year, up from 1.8 million in 2015 to 2.6 million in just three years. Detective Constable Chris Piggott, rural vehicle crime intelligence officer at the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service, has advised that several gangs now seem to be moving across force borders and that, at the moment, most of Wales is being targeted. Lesley Griffiths MS recently sent me a letter explaining that she is in correspondence with Lord Goldsmith, the north Wales rural crime team and DEFRA colleagues. I welcome that, but I'm just wondering whether you've had more discussions with the Minister about supporting the calls for the formation of a national rural crime taskforce for Wales. Will you support such a proposal, to bring Welsh stakeholders together to work on a suitable Welsh Government response so as to protect our rural communities and, of course, so as to create a platform from which key correspondence can be sent from Wales to the UK Government and that we can have better collaborative working on rural crime, going forward? Thank you.
Welsh: Diolch. O waith craffu blaenorol yr wyf wedi ei gyflwyno ger eich bron, byddwch yn ymwybodol o'm barn fod gan Lywodraeth Cymru yn sicr ran i'w chwarae wrth fynd i'r afael â throseddau gwledig. Hoffwn dynnu sylw at erthygl mewn cyhoeddiad diweddar gan Farmers Guardian. Mae'r pennawd yn darllen: Mae gangiau cyfundrefnol yn targedu beiciau cwad. Felly, nid ydym yn sôn am ambell feic cwad yn cael ei ddwyn, ond rydym yn sôn nawr am gangiau cyfundrefnol, ac mae hynny'n llawer mwy sylweddol o ran ymddygiad troseddol. Mae data gan NFU Mutual yn dangos bod lladradau'n parhau i gynyddu o flwyddyn i flwyddyn, i fyny o 1.8 miliwn yn 2015 i 2.6 miliwn mewn tair blynedd yn unig. Mae'r Ditectif Gwnstabl Chris Piggott, swyddog cudd-wybodaeth troseddau cerbydau gwledig yn y Gwasanaeth Cenedlaethol Gwybodaeth am Droseddau Cerbydau, wedi dweud ei bod hi'n ymddangos bod sawl gang bellach yn symud ar draws ffiniau'r heddlu a bod y rhan fwyaf o Gymru, ar hyn o bryd, yn cael ei thargedu. Anfonodd Lesley Griffiths AS lythyr ataf yn ddiweddar yn esbonio ei bod yn gohebu â'r Arglwydd Goldsmith, tîm troseddau gwledig gogledd Cymru a chydweithwyr yn DEFRA. Rwy'n croesawu hynny, ond dim ond meddwl ydw i tybed a ydych chi wedi cael mwy o drafodaethau gyda'r Gweinidog ynglŷn â chefnogi'r galwadau am ffurfio tasglu troseddau gwledig cenedlaethol i Gymru. A wnewch chi gefnogi cynnig o'r fath, i ddod â rhanddeiliaid o Gymru at ei gilydd i weithio ar ymateb addas gan Lywodraeth Cymru er mwyn diogelu ein cymunedau gwledig ac, wrth gwrs, er mwyn creu llwyfan ar gyfer anfon gohebiaeth allweddol o Gymru at Lywodraeth y DU ac y gallwn ni gael gwell cydweithio ar droseddau gwledig, wrth symud ymlaen? Diolch.