English: I will be mainly focusing on business rates, but if I could just follow up on what Jenny Rathbone has just said, no-one is making the case that city centre parking is a panacea in any way. But they should be recognised by their actions, and I notice that the Labour council in Rhondda Cynon Taf have just announced free parking over the Christmas period in order to promote town centres in that area. So, you must take action yourself if you are to criticise others. But I want to focus on business rates, and the opportunities provided by reforming business rates to regenerate many of our town centres. I will be spending Small Business Saturday visiting small businesses, and I hope to be in Narberth, one of the towns which has succeeded and demonstrated how changes to business rates can regenerate the centre of a small town. There was a business rates holiday over a long period in Narberth in order to allow new businesses to be established and to actually break that link that you would have to commit for a long period to take over a property. Anyone who's visited Narberth will now realise that that approach has led to a number of small businesses establishing, from butchers to craft shops to food outlets, but also everyday shops. So, you can go to Narberth and find what you need for your weekly shop and pay very little to park, if I may say, for an hour or two. But it's also true to say that the Government hasn't responded to the increase in business rates in an appropriate manner that actually learns lessons from towns such as Narberth and other towns in Wales. We are at risk of creating a business rates system that could be among the highest in Britain, and I don't think that that puts the local high street in an ideal position by any stretch of the imagination. I don't think that the Government is demonstrating that they want to see the kind of local market establishing itself, as Adam Price outlined in opening the debate. We're about to move to a system where, in terms of the rates, we in Wales will be the most expensive in that regard in Britain. That doesn't give us that edge, and it doesn't show support for businesses, and it doesn't actually put businesses in that competitive position that we would like to see in promoting our small businesses on the high street. That, of course, is a pledge broken by the Government. They pledged to have an improved system in their manifesto, and of course we saw the greatest spin possible that continuing the current regime was in some way a cut in business rates. Well, the small businesses have seen through that spin and have seen that the devolution of business rates hasn't benefitted them in the most appropriate way. I do hope that this will be a temporary system, because if we are serious about developing the economy, we must use all economic tools possible. We have very few of these tools, and there aren't many provided by the Wales Bill either. But we do know that business rates are one of the most powerful tools that we have in our armoury - outwith the block grant, of course. So it's one of the things where we can make a difference. One thing that we can do and consider in earnest here in Wales is to change the multiplier to the CPI, rather than RPI. Another thing that we could look at is why on earth we have one multiplier across the whole of Wales. Not all areas of Wales are the same; not all businesses are the same. In Scotland, they have different multipliers for small businesses and larger businesses, and I would like us to look at that - [Interruption.] In just a second, yes. But I would hope that we could look at regional multipliers, too. For example, I'm always banging on about the Cleddau bridge being tolled, and that is a toll on small businesses in an enterprise zone. We can consider how we could use the business levy to respond to the toll in that area. I will give way on that point.
Welsh: Fe fyddaf yn sôn yn bennaf ynglŷn â threthi busnes, ond os caf i ddilyn i fyny gyda'r hyn mae Jenny Rathbone newydd ei ddweud, nid oes neb yn dadlau bod parcio am ddim dros dro mewn dinasoedd yn 'panacea' o bell ffordd. Ond, wrth eu gweithredoedd mae eu hadnabod nhw, ac rwy'n sylweddoli bod cyngor Llafur Rhondda Cynon Taf newydd gyhoeddi parcio am ddim dros dro dros y Nadolig er mwyn hybu trefi yn Rhondda Cynon Taf. Felly, mae'n rhaid i chi weithredu eich hunain os ydych chi am feirniadu pobl eraill. Ond rwyf eisiau canolbwyntio ar drethi busnes a'r cyfle, drwy ddiwygio'r system trethi busnes, i adfywio nifer o'n trefi ni. Fe fyddaf i'n treulio Sadwrn Busnesau Bach, wrth gwrs, yn ymweld â busnesau bach. Rwy'n gobeithio yn fawr iawn y byddaf i yn Arberth, un o'r trefi sydd wedi llwyddo i ddangos sut mae newid trethi busnes yn gallu adfywio canol tref fach. Fe gafwyd gwyliau trethi busnes dros gyfnod hir yn Arberth er mwyn cynnig i fusnesau newydd ffurfio er mwyn torri'r ddolen yna bod yn rhaid i chi ymrwymo am gyfnod hir i gymryd eiddo drosodd. Mae unrhyw un sydd wedi ymweld ag Arberth yn sylweddoli bellach fod y dull yna wedi arwain at nifer o fusnesau bach yn sefydlu eu hunain, o gigydd i siopau bwyd i siopau arbenigol a siopau crefftau, ond siopau pob dydd hefyd. Felly, mae modd mynd i Arberth a chael yr hyn rydych chi eisiau ar gyfer yr wythnos a thalu ychydig iawn i barcio, of caf i ddweud, am awr neu ddwy hefyd. Ond mae'n wir i ddweud hefyd nad yw'r Llywodraeth wedi ymateb i'r cynnydd mewn trethi busnes mewn ffordd briodol sy'n dysgu o drefi fel Arberth a threfi eraill yng Nghymru. Rydym mewn perygl o greu system trethi busnes yng nghanol trefi ymysg yr uchaf sydd i gael ym Mhrydain. Nid wyf yn meddwl bod hynny'n rhoi'r stryd fawr leol mewn sefyllfa ddelfrydol. Nid wyf yn credu bod y Llywodraeth, felly, yn dangos eu bod nhw eisiau gweld math o farchnad leol yn sefydlu ei hunan, fel roedd Adam Price yn amlinellu wrth agor y ddadl. Rydym ar fin symud i system lle, o ran y trethi ac o ran y gyfradd - rŷm ni'n symud i system lle mai ni yng Nghymru fydd y rhai mwyaf drud o safbwynt hynny ym Mhrydain. Nid yw hynny'n rhoi awch, nid yw'n dangos cefnogaeth i'r busnesau ac nid yw'n rhoi'r sefyllfa gystadleuol rydym eisiau ei gweld wrth hybu ein busnesau bach ni ar y stryd fawr. Mae hynny, wrth gwrs, yn torri'r addewid a oedd gan y Blaid Lafur yn eu maniffesto i gael system well na'r system bresennol, ac wrth gwrs fe gafwyd y sbin mwyaf fod parhau â'r system bresennol rhyw ffordd yn doriad mewn trethi busnes. Wel, mae'r busnesau bach wedi gweld yn syth drwy'r sbin yna ac yn gweld yn glir, a dweud y gwir, nad yw datganoli trethi busnes wedi'i fanteisio arno yn y ffordd fwyaf priodol gan y Llywodraeth. Rwy'n gobeithio bod hon yn system dros dro, achos mae'n rhaid i ni, os ydym am fod o ddifrif wrth ddatblygu'r economi, ddefnyddio pob arf economaidd posibl sydd gennym ni. Ychydig iawn sydd gyda ni ac nid oes llawer yn mynd i ddod ym Mil Cymru, chwaith. Ond, rydym yn gwybod bod trethi busnes yn un o'r arfau mwyaf pwerus sydd gennym - tu allan i'r 'block grant', fel petai. Felly, mae'n un o'r pethau lle rydym yn gallu gwneud gwahaniaeth. Un peth y gallwn ni ei wneud ac ystyried o ddifrif yma yng Nghymru yw newid y 'multiplier' i'r CPI yn hytrach na'r RPI. Peth arall y gallwn ni edrych arno yw pam yn y byd y mae gennym ni un 'multiplier' dros Gymru gyfan. Nid yw pob ardal yng Nghymru yr un peth; nid yw pob busnes yr un peth. Mae gan yr Alban, erbyn hyn, 'multipliers' gwahanol ar gyfer busnesau bach a busnesau mawr. Byddwn i'n licio - [Torri ar draws.] Mewn eiliad, ie. Byddwn i'n licio meddwl ein bod ni'n gallu edrych ar 'multipliers' rhanbarthol hefyd. Er enghraifft, rwyf wastad yn sôn yn y dadleuon hyn am y ffaith fod gan bont Cleddau doll arni, ac felly mae'n doll ar fusnesau bach mewn ardal fenter. Gallwn ni edrych ar sut y gallwn ni ddefnyddio'r ardoll trethi busnes i ymateb i'r ffaith bod y doll yn yr ardal honno. Gwnaf ildio ar y pwynt yna.