English: What I agree with is that it was a temporary uplift introduced in response to COVID-19 and extended beyond the original promised date. Today, welfare spending will still be £241 billion in 2021-22, with over £111 billion on working age welfare, or 4.9 per cent of GDP. Universal credit provides a safety net, but is not designed to trap people in welfare. Unfortunately, however, as our amendment 2 states, poverty levels in Wales are higher than in other parts of the UK due to the failure of successive Welsh Governments, responsible for measures to promote prosperity and tackle poverty in Wales for over 22 years. As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported last year, Wales has retained the highest poverty rate of all the UK nations throughout devolution since 1999, and has the lowest GVA prosperity levels of any UK nation. Further, their 'Poverty in Wales 2020' report last November found that Wales still has lower pay for people in every sector than the rest of the UK and that, even before coronavirus, almost a quarter of people in Wales were in poverty, living precarious and insecure lives. And as the Bevan Foundation also stated, poverty was a significant problem in Wales long before the arrival of COVID-19. This is despite the billions received and spent by successive Welsh Governments, which was supposed to tackle the prosperity gap. By June this year, the Welsh Government had received an additional £8.6 billion from the UK Government since the start of the pandemic. As Audit Wales states, it allocated £5.1 billion to the COVID-19 response in 2020-21, and the Welsh Government has at least an additional £2.6 billion available in 2021-22. That report was published this week. This money needs to be invested in building back better, lifting people out of poverty, preventing them from spending -
Welsh: Yr hyn rwy'n cytuno ag ef yw ei fod yn gynnydd dros dro a gyflwynwyd mewn ymateb i COVID-19 ac a gafodd ei estyn y tu hwnt i'r dyddiad a addawyd yn wreiddiol. Heddiw, bydd gwariant lles yn dal i fod yn £241 biliwn yn 2021-22, gyda thros £111 biliwn ar les oedran gweithio, neu 4.9 y cant o'r cynnyrch domestig gros. Mae credyd cynhwysol yn darparu rhwyd ddiogelwch, ond nid yw wedi'i gynllunio i gaethiwo pobl mewn lles. Yn anffodus, fodd bynnag, fel y dywed ein gwelliant 2, mae lefelau tlodi yng Nghymru yn uwch nag mewn rhannau eraill o'r DU oherwydd methiant Llywodraethau Cymru olynol, sy'n gyfrifol am fesurau i hyrwyddo ffyniant a threchu tlodi yng Nghymru ers dros 22 mlynedd. Fel yr adroddodd Sefydliad Joseph Rowntree y llynedd, mae Cymru wedi gweld cyfradd uwch o dlodi na gwledydd eraill y DU drwy gydol datganoli ers 1999, ac mae ganddi lefelau ffyniant gwerth ychwanegol gros is nag unrhyw wlad arall yn y DU. Ymhellach, canfu eu hadroddiad 'Tlodi yng Nghymru 2020' fis Tachwedd diwethaf fod cyflogau Cymru'n dal i fod yn is i bobl ym mhob sector na gweddill y DU a bod bron i chwarter y bobl yng Nghymru, hyd yn oed cyn y coronafeirws, yn byw mewn tlodi, yn byw bywydau ansicr ac ansefydlog. Ac fel y dywedodd Sefydliad Bevan hefyd, roedd tlodi'n broblem sylweddol yng Nghymru ymhell cyn dyfodiad COVID-19, a hynny er gwaethaf y biliynau a dderbyniwyd ac a wariwyd gan Lywodraethau Cymru olynol, arian a oedd i fod i fynd i'r afael â'r bwlch ffyniant. Erbyn mis Mehefin eleni, roedd Llywodraeth Cymru wedi derbyn £8.6 biliwn yn ychwanegol gan Lywodraeth y DU ers dechrau'r pandemig. Fel y dywed Archwilio Cymru, dyrannodd £5.1 biliwn i ymateb COVID-19 yn 2020-21, ac mae gan Lywodraeth Cymru o leiaf £2.6 biliwn ychwanegol ar gael yn 2021-22. Cyhoeddwyd yr adroddiad hwnnw yr wythnos hon. Mae angen buddsoddi'r arian hwn i adeiladu'n ôl yn well, codi pobl allan o dlodi, eu hatal rhag treulio -