English: Thank you for those questions. A number of them, I think, are best directed towards the city region. This, after all, is a local project. This is not a project the Welsh Government has sponsored. This is a project that's come from the region, and the Welsh Government and the UK Government, jointly, are funding this, and they've put in place a series of assurances that the money is going to be well spent and the strategy is going to be adhered to. So, many of the detailed questions you ask about appointing the strategy board and the financial plan and so on are ones that I'm not in a position to answer; those are the questions that the city deal themselves are to answer. Because, if we want genuinely place-based decision making, then the responsibility and the accountability must remain locally. Although, until now, it's been very different, I think our role does need to change, as I indicated earlier, into more of a partnership and less of a policeman role. But the city deal as currently constituted, as designed by the UK Government, does not give us that role explicitly. In terms of the timeline, it's our very clear hope that we can get these projects over the line. But, as I've said, this has to come from the city region themselves. Alun Cairns and I have both expressed our hope to the council leaders - and we met them last week - that we would like a pipeline of projects, with momentum. So, if we can get the first two over the line no later than the end of April, we'd like to get more before the summer and before the end of the year. However, it is worth noting that the independent review that the Welsh Government and the UK Government jointly commissioned put all the projects at red risk. Now, this is a very significant finding, placed right at the end of the annex of the report, but it certainly took my eye. So, I don't think we can responsibly put into stone any firm deadlines until we can be assured that the lessons can be learned by the joint board and that the cases are going to be robust enough to meet the tests that we have in place. You asked about the role of the director and who will appoint that, and the role of the Welsh Government. And you're quite right - this is a local appointment; this is not a role for the Welsh Government to be involved in. I'd expect and hope that they will be advertising that role, and I think the person they get into that role is crucially important. The independent review makes it clear that this should be somebody of equal status and standing to a chief executive in order to provide a challenge and scrutiny. And, to be fair, of the three reports that have now been published - the Wales Audit Office report, the Welsh Government-UK Government report, and then the independent report, jointly commissioned by the four local authorities and carried out by their own internal auditors - that I think is the most rigorous of the reports and the most unsparing in its criticism. And I think some credit needs to go to the city region that they themselves have commissioned that - it's the public sector who have carried out that, not some private sector consultants - and they've published it. So, they've been completely open in the criticisms they've made of themselves, and it's not a comfortable read, but I think, to give them due credit, they have done that and it's now for them to fully absorb the lessons from that report and to implement them. So, I hope I've answered the questions that the Member has raised.
Welsh: Diolch i chi am y cwestiynau hynny. Credaf mai'r peth gorau fyddai cyfeirio nifer ohonynt tuag at y dinas-ranbarth. Mae hwn, wedi'r cyfan, yn brosiect lleol. Nid yw hwn yn brosiect y mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi'i noddi. Mae'n brosiect sydd wedi dod o'r rhanbarth, ac mae Llywodraeth Cymru a Llywodraeth y DU yn ei ariannu ar y cyd, ac maent wedi rhoi sicrwydd y bydd yr arian yn cael ei wario'n dda ac y cydymffurfir â'r strategaeth. Felly, mae llawer o'r cwestiynau manwl rydych yn eu holi ynghylch penodi'r bwrdd strategaeth a'r cynllun ariannol ac ati yn rhai nad wyf mewn sefyllfa i'w hateb; rheini yw'r cwestiynau y mae'r fargen ddinesig ei hun i'w hateb. Oherwydd, os ydym o ddifrif eisiau gwneud penderfyniadau'n seiliedig ar leoedd, rhaid i'r cyfrifoldeb a'r atebolrwydd aros yn lleol. Er ei fod wedi bod yn wahanol iawn tan nawr, credaf fod angen i'n rôl newid, fel y nodais yn gynharach, i fod yn fwy o bartneriaeth ac yn llai o rôl plismon. Ond nid yw'r fargen ddinesig, fel y mae wedi'i chyfansoddi ar hyn o bryd, fel y'i cynlluniwyd gan Lywodraeth y DU, yn rhoi'r rôl honno i ni'n benodol. O ran yr amserlen, rydym yn gobeithio'n fawr y gallwn gael y prosiectau hyn dros y llinell. Ond fel y dywedais, mae'n rhaid i hyn ddod gan y dinas-ranbarth ei hun. Mae Alun Cairns a minnau wedi mynegi ein gobaith wrth arweinwyr y cynghorau - a chyfarfuom â hwy yr wythnos diwethaf - y byddem yn hoffi llif o brosiectau, gyda momentwm. Felly, os gallwn gael y ddau gyntaf dros y llinell cyn diwedd mis Ebrill fan bellaf, hoffem gael mwy cyn yr haf a chyn diwedd y flwyddyn. Fodd bynnag, mae'n werth nodi bod yr adolygiad annibynnol a gomisiynwyd ar y cyd gan Lywodraeth Cymru a Llywodraeth y DU yn rhoi'r holl brosiectau ar lefel risg goch. Nawr, mae hwn yn ganfyddiad arwyddocaol iawn, wedi'i nodi ar ddiwedd yr atodiad yn yr adroddiad, ond tynnodd fy sylw yn sicr. Felly, nid wyf yn credu y gallwn gadarnhau unrhyw derfynau amser yn gyfrifol hyd nes y gallwn fod yn sicr y gall y cyd-fwrdd ddysgu gwersi, ac y bydd yr achosion yn ddigon cadarn i fodloni'r profion sydd gennym ar waith. Gofynasoch am rôl y cyfarwyddwr a phwy fydd yn penodi i'r swydd honno, a rôl Llywodraeth Cymru. Ac rydych yn hollol gywir - mae hwn yn benodiad lleol; nid yw hon yn rôl ar gyfer Llywodraeth Cymru. Buaswn yn gobeithio ac yn disgwyl iddynt hysbysebu'r rôl honno, a chredaf fod y person a gaiff ei benodi i'r rôl honno yn hanfodol bwysig. Mae'r adolygiad annibynnol yn ei gwneud yn glir y dylai'r person hwn fod yn rhywun o statws cyfartal i brif weithredwr er mwyn herio a chraffu. Ac i fod yn deg, o'r tri adroddiad sydd bellach wedi'u cyhoeddi - adroddiad Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru, adroddiad Llywodraeth y DU a Llywodraeth Cymru, a'r adroddiad annibynnol, a gomisiynwyd ar y cyd gan y pedwar awdurdod lleol ac a gyflawnwyd gan eu harchwilwyr mewnol eu hunain - credaf mai hwnnw yw'r adroddiad mwyaf trwyadl ohonynt a'r mwyaf llym ei feirniadaeth. Ac rwy'n credu bod angen rhoi rhywfaint o glod i'r dinas-ranbarth am gomisiynu hwnnw eu hunain - y sector cyhoeddus a gyflawnodd hwnnw, nid ymgynghorwyr sector preifat - ac maent wedi'i gyhoeddi. Felly, maent wedi bod yn gwbl agored yn eu beirniadaeth ohonynt eu hunain, ac mae ei ddarllen yn brofiad anghysurus, ond i roi'r clod y maent yn ei haeddu iddynt, rwy'n credu eu bod wedi gwneud hynny a bellach mater iddynt hwy yw dysgu'r gwersi o'r adroddiad hwnnw yn llawn a'u rhoi ar waith. Felly, gobeithiaf fy mod wedi atebais y cwestiynau a ofynnodd yr Aelod.