English: Thank you, Mabon. One of the things that we're currently dealing with is that the flow of people who are presenting as homeless, as a result of the pandemic and a number of other economic issues, has not diminished in any way. So, our local authorities are still dealing with in excess of 1,000 people a month presenting as homeless across Wales. We currently have just upwards of 12,000 people in temporary accommodation, although many of them are still being moved into permanent. I don't have the figures with me, but I will check for you. I don't think we link particularly the discretionary housing payment with the move to permanent housing - you can have that for paying your rent in temporary housing, for example. I'm more than happy to share with all Members the chart of how many discretionary housing payments have been made and in what proportion. There are two important things to say here. We do monitor all the time what the local authorities are able to do with the discretionary housing payments, and whether the eligibility criteria are sufficient for their purpose. We've changed that, during the course of the pandemic, on a number of occasions, as he will know, in order to make it more accessible to people. The idea is, obviously, to assist people to stay in their housing, whether that's temporary or permanent. I'm very happy to write to the Member, and, indeed, share it will all Members, with a grid of how many payments have been made. The big issue that we have, as he correctly identified, is the problem with the welfare system. An under-the-radar change that the Conservative Government has done in their completely heartless way is to freeze the local housing allowance two years ago, so that already the value of a benefit to somebody who isn't in social housing is diminishing. These small changes make an enormous difference in people's lives, and the positive tsunami that's about to hit people on the lower income brackets this winter with the rise in national insurance payments, the removal of the £20 universal credit and the freezing of the local housing allowance is just appalling to contemplate. So, I'm very happy to work with any information he has about local authorities struggling to pay out the money. I absolutely agree with him that we want that money paid out to people who need it right across Wales in order to try and temper some of the most heartless cuts I've ever seen in the welfare state, in any Government in my lifetime, actually. It's quite eye watering, the appalling lack of sympathy that this Conservative Government is showing, and I'm more than happy to share with him and other Members where the payments are. I don't have that information to hand, but I'm more than happy to share it with him.
Welsh: Diolch, Mabon. Un o'r pethau rydym yn ymdrin â hwy ar hyn o bryd yw nad yw'r llif o bobl ddigartref, o ganlyniad i'r pandemig a nifer o faterion economaidd eraill, wedi lleihau mewn unrhyw ffordd. Felly, mae ein hawdurdodau lleol yn dal i ymdrin â mwy na 1,000 o bobl ddigartref y mis ledled Cymru. Ar hyn o bryd, mae gennym ychydig dros 12,000 o bobl mewn llety dros dro, er bod llawer ohonynt yn dal i gael eu symud i lety parhaol. Nid yw'r ffigurau gennyf, ond fe edrychaf i weld. Ni chredaf ein bod yn cysylltu'r taliad disgresiwn at gostau tai â symud i dai parhaol yn benodol - gellir cael y taliad hwnnw i dalu rhent mewn tai dros dro, er enghraifft. Rwy'n fwy na pharod i rannu'r siart sy'n dangos faint o daliadau disgresiwn at gostau tai a wnaed, ac ym mha gyfran, gyda'r holl Aelodau. Mae dau beth pwysig i'w dweud yma. Rydym yn monitro drwy'r amser yr hyn y gall awdurdodau lleol ei wneud gyda'r taliadau disgresiwn at gostau tai, ac a yw'r meini prawf cymhwysedd yn ddigonol at eu diben. Rydym wedi newid hynny ar sawl achlysur yn ystod y pandemig, fel y gŵyr, er mwyn eu gwneud yn fwy hygyrch i bobl. Y syniad, yn amlwg, yw cynorthwyo pobl i aros yn eu tai, boed yn dai dros dro neu barhaol. Rwy'n fwy na pharod i ysgrifennu at yr Aelod, ac yn wir, i rannu hynny gyda'r holl Aelodau, gyda grid sy'n dangos faint o daliadau a wnaed. Yr anhawster, fel y nododd yn gywir, yw'r broblem gyda'r system les. Newid y mae'r Llywodraeth Geidwadol wedi'i wneud o dan y radar yn eu ffordd gwbl ddidostur yw rhewi'r lwfans tai lleol ddwy flynedd yn ôl, fel bod gwerth budd-dal i rywun nad ydynt mewn tai cymdeithasol eisoes yn lleihau. Mae'r newidiadau bach hyn yn gwneud gwahaniaeth enfawr ym mywydau pobl, ac mae'r don enfawr sydd ar fin taro pobl ar incwm is y gaeaf hwn gyda'r cynnydd mewn taliadau yswiriant gwladol, diddymu'r £20 o gredyd cynhwysol a rhewi'r lwfans tai lleol yn gwbl warthus. Felly, rwy'n fwy na pharod i weithio gydag unrhyw wybodaeth sydd ganddo ynglŷn ag awdurdodau lleol yn ei chael hi'n anodd talu'r arian. Cytunaf yn llwyr ag ef ein bod am i'r arian hwnnw gael ei dalu i'r bobl sydd ei angen ledled Cymru er mwyn ceisio lliniaru rhai o'r toriadau mwyaf didostur i mi eu gweld erioed yn y wladwriaeth les, gan unrhyw Lywodraeth yn ystod fy oes mewn gwirionedd. Mae'n eithaf syfrdanol, y diffyg cydymdeimlad echrydus hwn gan y Llywodraeth Geidwadol, ac rwy'n fwy na pharod i rannu lle mae'r taliadau gydag ef ac Aelodau eraill. Nid yw'r wybodaeth honno gennyf ar hyn o bryd, ond rwy'n fwy na pharod i'w rhannu gydag ef.