English: Cabinet Secretary, you will be aware that the Vale of Glamorgan Council has written to every parent in the county about school funding. I thank you for your response to me regarding this matter. Your letter to me actually clarifies a number of points, and you've stated them again in response to me, and it does put the record straight regarding the Welsh Government's role in schools' funding budget decisions. So, I'm pleased you were able to clarify in your letter to me the key role of local government in setting budgets for their schools and for the role of local government in agreeing and reviewing the funding formula. I do want to quote briefly from your letter of 26 February. You say, 'The Welsh Government does not fund schools directly. Each Local Authority in Wales is responsible for determining how much funding is allocated to its schools' and, as you say, 'How much an Authority sets aside for school budgets is a matter for the Authority to determine.' You also say that, 'With regards to how the Welsh Government funds Local Authorities, the core revenue funding we provide is distributed according to relative need, using a formula which takes account of a wealth of information on the demographic, physical, economic and social characteristics of authorities. This funding formula has been developed in consultation with Local Government through the Distribution Sub Group'. Do you think it would be helpful if your letter, including this information, was sent to every parent in the Vale of Glamorgan, or, at a minimum, was put on the Vale of Glamorgan website? And also, do you welcome the Welsh Government's twenty-first century schools programme, which has resulted in a new Llantwit Major learning community with an official opening on 22 March? And, Cabinet Secretary -
Welsh: Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, fe fyddwch yn gwybod bod Cyngor Bro Morgannwg wedi ysgrifennu at bob rhiant yn y sir ynghylch ariannu ysgolion. Diolch am eich ymateb i mi mewn perthynas â'r mater hwn. Mae eich llythyr i mi yn egluro nifer o bwyntiau mewn gwirionedd, ac rydych wedi eu nodi unwaith eto wrth ymateb i mi, ac mae'n egluro'r sefyllfa parthed rôl Llywodraeth Cymru ym mhenderfyniadau'r gyllideb ariannu ysgolion. Felly, yn eich llythyr i mi, rwy'n falch eich bod wedi gallu egluro rôl allweddol llywodraeth leol yn pennu'r cyllidebau ar gyfer eu hysgolion a rôl llywodraeth leol yn cytuno ar y fformiwla ariannu a'i hadolygu. Hoffwn ddyfynnu'n fyr o'ch llythyr dyddiedig 26 Chwefror. Rydych yn dweud, Nid yw Llywodraeth Cymru yn ariannu ysgolion yn uniongyrchol. Mae pob Awdurdod Lleol yng Nghymru yn gyfrifol am bennu faint o arian a ddyrennir i'w ysgolion ac fel y dywedwch, Mae faint o arian y mae Awdurdod yn ei neilltuo ar gyfer cyllidebau ysgolion yn fater ar gyfer yr Awdurdod hwnnw. Dywedwch hefyd, O ran sut y mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn ariannu Awdurdodau Lleol, dosberthir y cyllid refeniw craidd a ddarparwn yn ôl anghenion cymharol, gan ddefnyddio fformiwla sy'n ystyried cyfoeth o wybodaeth ar nodweddion demograffig, ffisegol, economaidd a chymdeithasol yr awdurdodau. Datblygwyd y fformiwla ariannu hon mewn ymgynghoriad â Llywodraeth Leol drwy'r Is-Grŵp Dosbarthu. A ydych yn credu y byddai o gymorth pe bai eich llythyr, gan gynnwys y wybodaeth hon, yn cael ei anfon at bob rhiant ym Mro Morgannwg, neu o leiaf, ar gael ar wefan Bro Morgannwg? Ac a ydych hefyd yn croesawu rhaglen ysgolion yr unfed ganrif ar hugain Llywodraeth Cymru, sydd wedi arwain at gymuned ddysgu newydd yn Llanilltud Fawr a fydd yn agor yn swyddogol ar 22 Mawrth? Ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet -