English: It's good to see that already today colleagues have been raising the issue of the effect on businesses of the cliff edge at the end of March of the drop in support for energy prices. Both Vikki and Jayne Bryant have raised this. I think they're right in raising the fact of the impact of this upon things such as retail outlets, local pubs and clubs, and so on - that's absolutely right. But I would welcome a statement, Trefnydd, on this issue that also focuses on some of those small-to-medium-scale local foundational economy businesses that are employed in food manufacturing. Within the Bridgend area, we still have a number of these businesses, and I've spoken to them. They have, when I say, significant fears, they genuinely worry that they will close in April or May, and the reason is they've managed to get this far with support, on good order books, by the way, and, in fact, many of them could take on more. These are good, family-owned businesses, some of which go back three, four or five generations. But the energy costs now are tipping them over the edge, and they're looking to pay 70p or 80p per unit price for electricity, whereas, a year ago, they were paying 30p. They could pay a little bit more, but they cannot pay 70p or 80p. It means their cash flow will take them under. Their banks can't help them any more, and no development bank of Wales or anybody else can help them. The energy cliff edge will push them over. Now, these are jobs where people walk to work. They may not be highly paid jobs, but they employ hundreds upon hundreds of people in every community in my valleys, and also in Bridgend and the RCT area as well. Perhaps I could, in asking for a statement, reflect the views of one of these businesses - a family-run business who's been there for many generations - who said, 'I would welcome the Minister not just calling on the UK Government to extend the support, but to bring the energy companies into a room and lock the door until they renegotiate, some of which has been done through brokers, the unit price energy costs.' There's a role for UK Government, but there's a role for the energy companies as we see wholesale costs falling, to sit in that room and give back to some of these companies, because it's no good to those energy companies if these companies go bust, and I'm seriously worried we could be looking at a tsunami of job losses and businesses closing.
Welsh: Mae'n dda gweld bod cyd-Aelodau eisoes heddiw wedi bod yn codi mater effaith ymyl y dibyn ddiwedd mis Mawrth o ostyngiad y gefnogaeth i brisiau ynni ar fusnesau. Mae Vikki a Jayne Bryant wedi codi hyn. Rwy'n credu eu bod nhw'n iawn i godi effaith hyn ar bethau fel siopau manwerthu, tafarndai a chlybiau lleol, ac yn y blaen - mae hynny'n hollol iawn. Ond byddwn i'n croesawu datganiad, Trefnydd, ar y mater hwn sydd hefyd yn canolbwyntio ar rai o'r busnesau economi sylfaenol leol ar raddfa fach a chanolig hynny sy'n ymwneud â gweithgynhyrchu bwyd. Yn ardal Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr, mae yn dal gennym ni nifer o'r busnesau hyn, ac rydw i wedi siarad â nhw. Mae ganddyn nhw, pan ddywedaf i, ofnau sylweddol, maen nhw wir yn poeni y byddan nhw'n cau ym mis Ebrill neu fis Mai, a'r rheswm yw eu bod wedi llwyddo hyd yn hyn gyda chefnogaeth, ar lyfrau archebion da, gyda llaw, ac, a dweud y gwir, gallai llawer ohonyn nhw ymgymryd â mwy. Mae'r rhain yn fusnesau da, teuluol, rhai ohonyn nhw'n mynd yn ôl tair, pedair neu bum cenhedlaeth. Ond mae'r costau ynni nawr yn eu gwthio dros y dibyn, ac maen nhw'n disgwyl talu 70c neu 80c yr uned am drydan, ond, flwyddyn yn ôl, roedden nhw'n talu 30c. Gallen nhw dalu ychydig yn fwy, ond ni allan nhw dalu 70c neu 80c. Mae'n golygu y bydd eu llif arian yn mynd â nhw i'r wal. Ni all eu banciau eu helpu mwyach, ac ni all unrhyw fanc datblygu Cymru nac unrhyw un arall eu helpu nhw. Bydd ymyl y dibyn ynni yn eu gwthio drosodd. Nawr, mae'r rhain yn swyddi lle mae pobl yn cerdded i'r gwaith. Efallai nad ydyn nhw'n swyddi â chyflog uchel, ond maen nhw'n cyflogi cannoedd ar gannoedd o bobl ym mhob cymuned yn fy nghymoedd i, a hefyd ym Mhen-y-bont ar Ogwr ac ardal Rhondda Cynon Taf hefyd. Efallai y gallwn i, wrth ofyn am ddatganiad, adlewyrchu barn un o'r busnesau hyn - busnes teuluol sydd wedi bod yno ers sawl cenhedlaeth - a ddywedodd, 'Byddwn i'n croesawu'r Gweinidog nid yn unig yn galw ar Lywodraeth y DU i ymestyn y gefnogaeth, ond i ddod â'r cwmnïau ynni i mewn i ystafell a chloi'r drws nes iddyn nhw ail-drafod, peth o hyn wedi'i gyflawni drwy froceriaid, sef costau ynni pris yr uned.' Mae rôl i Lywodraeth y DU, ond mae rôl i'r cwmnïau ynni wrth i ni weld costau cyfanwerthu yn disgyn, i eistedd yn yr ystafell honno a rhoi yn ôl i rai o'r cwmnïau yma, oherwydd nid yw'n dda i'r cwmnïau ynni hynny os yw'r cwmnïau yma'n mynd i'r wal, ac rwy'n poeni'n ddifrifol y gallem ni fod yn wynebu swnami o golli swyddi a busnesau'n cau.