English: Thank you, Vikki Howells. We will certainly do that. We do this at every opportunity. It falls on very deaf ears, Llywydd. The Welsh Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, chaired by a Conservative Welsh MP, said themselves that they were 'disappointed that the UK Government appears to have made negligible progress in developing its replacement for ESI funding and that its repeated promises of a consultation have failed to materialise, demonstrating a lack of priority.' Our colleague the Counsel General wrote to Robert Jenrick, the member of the Cabinet responsible for the shared prosperity fund, on 12 October, asking for a meeting to discuss matters in relation to education and all the other things that have been supported by EU funding in Wales. We're yet even to receive a reply, let alone to have a meeting. And Vikki Howells is right, Llywydd, to point to the importance of this funding in our further education sector. And there it is not simply a matter of the quantum of money, but it's the fact that, under European funding, you had a seven-year multi-annual funding framework, so that if you're going to bring apprentices through the system, you can't do it in a single year, you need to be able to plan over years ahead, so that you can employ staff, you can develop facilities, you can offer guarantees to those young people. We don't know even how much money we have coming from next year, let alone the opportunity to have that guaranteed over the sort of period that we'd previously been able to enjoy with all the benefits that Vikki Howells noted.
Welsh: Diolch, Vikki Howells. Byddwn yn sicr yn gwneud hynny. Rydym ni'n gwneud hyn ar bob cyfle a gawn ni. Nid yw'n cael gwrandawiad o gwbl, Llywydd. Dywedodd Pwyllgor Materion Cymreig Tŷ'r Cyffredin, dan gadeiryddiaeth AS Ceidwadol yng Nghymru, eu bod eu hunain yn: siomedig ei bod yn ymddangos mai cynnydd bach iawn y mae Llywodraeth y DU wedi ei wneud o ran datblygu ei threfniadau newydd yn hytrach na chyllid ESI ac nad yw ei haddewidion mynych o ymgynghoriad wedi eu gwireddu, gan ddangos diffyg blaenoriaeth. Ysgrifennodd ein cyd-Aelod y Cwnsler Cyffredinol, at Robert Jenrick, yr aelod Cabinet sy'n gyfrifol am y gronfa ffyniant gyffredin, ar 12 Hydref, yn gofyn am gyfarfod i drafod materion yn ymwneud ag addysg a'r holl bethau eraill a gefnogwyd gan gyllid yr UE yng Nghymru. Dydyn ni ddim hyd yn oed wedi cael ateb hyd yma, heb sôn am gael cyfarfod. Ac mae Vikki Howells yn iawn, Llywydd, i dynnu sylw at bwysigrwydd y cyllid hwn yn ein sector addysg bellach. Ac nid mater o'r cwantwm arian yn unig ydyw yn hynny o beth, ond y ffaith bod gennych chi, o dan gyllid Ewropeaidd, fframwaith ariannu aml-flwyddyn saith mlynedd, felly os ydych chi'n mynd i ddod â phrentisiaid drwy'r system, allwch chi ddim gwneud hynny mewn un flwyddyn, mae angen i chi allu cynllunio dros flynyddoedd i'r dyfodol, fel y gallwch chi gyflogi staff, y gallwch chi ddatblygu cyfleusterau, y gallwch chi gynnig sicrwydd i'r bobl ifanc hynny. Dydyn ni ddim hyd yn oed yn gwybod faint o arian a fydd yn dod i ni o'r flwyddyn nesaf ymlaen, heb sôn am gael cyfle i sicrhau hynny dros y math o gyfnod yr oeddem ni wedi gallu ei fwynhau yn flaenorol gyda'r holl fanteision a nodwyd gan Vikki Howells.