English: Without the evidence I referred to, we can't tell whether it is working any better or any worse than it would if devolved. The suggestions might be to the contrary in the absence of such evidence. And of course, those police officers, the cuts were reversed, and we're now well on the road to deliver on 20,000 new police officers within the three-year target. But responding to you in May, I noted, for example, that Wales has the highest proportion of children in the UK in care, and one of the highest proportions of children looked after by any state in the world, and asked, 'Is it therefore not the case that such a difference in delivery within what is a shared criminal justice system shows why the calls for devolution of criminal justice should not be answered?' I also noted that, in consequence of the UK Government's female offenders strategy, the Minister for Social Justice here had written to Members, stating that she'd been working closely with the UK Ministry of Justice, and announcing that one of these centres would be near, and asked, 'How will this help vulnerable women offenders in north, mid and west Wales to access the services they need closer to home?' Rather than answer this, you instead stated that it was thanks to the Minister for Social Justice that 'we actually have the women's residential centrecoming to fruition.' Plans for this centre were subsequently turned down by Swansea Council. So, what is the current state of play, where women prisoners from England can now be released from Welsh prisons for rehabilitation in centres in England, but women prisoners in Wales cannot be released to equivalent centres in Wales?
Welsh: Heb y dystiolaeth y cyfeiriais ati, ni allwn ddweud a yw'n gweithio'n well neu'n waeth nag y byddai pe bai wedi'i ddatganoli. Gallai awgrymu'r gwrthwyneb yn absenoldeb tystiolaeth o'r fath. Ac wrth gwrs, cafodd y swyddogion heddlu hynny, y toriadau, eu gwrthdroi, ac rydym bellach ar y ffordd i ddarparu 20,000 o swyddogion heddlu newydd o fewn y targed tair blynedd. Ond wrth ymateb i chi ym mis Mai, nodais, er enghraifft, mai Cymru sydd â'r gyfran uchaf o blant mewn gofal yn y DU, ac un o'r cyfrannau uchaf o blant sy'n derbyn gofal mewn unrhyw wladwriaeth yn y byd, a gofynnais, 'Onid yw'n wir felly bod cymaint o wahaniaeth yn y ddarpariaeth o fewn system cyfiawnder troseddol ar y cyd yn dangos pam na ddylid ateb y galwadau am ddatganoli cyfiawnder troseddol?' Hefyd, yn sgil strategaeth troseddwyr benywaidd Llywodraeth y DU, nodais fod y Gweinidog Cyfiawnder Cymdeithasol yma wedi ysgrifennu at yr Aelodau i ddweud ei bod wedi bod yn gweithio'n agos gyda Gweinyddiaeth Gyfiawnder y DU, ac i gyhoeddi y byddai un o'r canolfannau hyn yn agos, a gofynnais, 'Sut y bydd hyn yn helpu troseddwyr benywaidd sy'n agored i niwed yn y gogledd, y canolbarth a'r gorllewin i gael mynediad at y gwasanaethau sydd eu hangen arnyn nhw yn nes at eu cartrefi?' Yn hytrach nag ateb, fe ddywedoch chi, fod y 'ganolfan breswyl i fenywodyn dwyn ffrwyth' diolch i'r Gweinidog Cyfiawnder Cymdeithasol. Wedi hynny, cafodd cynlluniau ar gyfer y ganolfan hon eu gwrthod gan Gyngor Abertawe. Felly, beth yw'r sefyllfa ar hyn o bryd, lle gall carcharorion benywaidd o Loegr gael eu rhyddhau o garchardai Cymru bellach i gael eu hadsefydlu mewn canolfannau yn Lloegr, ond ni all carcharorion benywaidd yng Nghymru gael eu rhyddhau i ganolfannau cyfatebol yng Nghymru?