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English: In November 2018, Flintshire County Council launched its #BacktheAsk campaign, in full council, receiving full cross-party support, 'to take the fight down to the Welsh Government in Cardiff to get a fair share of national funds'. Its leader, who happens to be a member of your party, subsequently said the council is seeking a recognition of how the formula impacts on the council's low-funded position, when compared to the majority of councils in Wales. One of the councils then received the largest cuts in Wales in 2019-20. In October, a letter came to you, and other Ministers, signed by the leader and all party leaders - all group leaders - stating, 'We still contend that as a low-funded council per capita under the local government funding formula we are more exposed than most'. In the draft budget, you then gave them the third lowest settlement in Wales. Senior councillors in Flintshire have told me in recent weeks that they don't want to openly challenge the funding formula, on the basis that, in order to gain, other councils would have to receive less, and they wouldn't receive external support. However, how do you respond to the letter you've received from council leaders in north Wales, signed by all leaders, of all parties, stating that the benefits of your provisional settlements in the draft budget are not shared sufficiently fairly, and leave most of the councils in the north with a settlement significantly below the net cost of pressures, inflation, and demographic change?
Welsh: Ym mis Tachwedd 2018, lansiodd Cyngor Sir y Fflint eu hymgyrch #CefnogiGalw, yn y cyfarfod llawn, gyda chefnogaeth gwbl drawsbleidiol, 'i fynd â'r frwydr i lawr i'r adran lywodraeth leol yng Nghaerdydd i gael cyfran deg o'r arian cenedlaethol'. Dywedodd eu harweinydd, sy'n digwydd bod yn aelod o'ch plaid, fod y cyngor yn ceisio cael cydnabyddiaeth i'r modd y mae'r fformiwla'n effeithio ar gyllid isel y cyngor o gymharu â mwyafrif y cynghorau yng Nghymru. Gwelodd un o'r cynghorau y toriadau mwyaf yng Nghymru yn 2019-20. Ym mis Hydref, anfonwyd llythyr atoch, a Gweinidogion eraill, a oedd wedi'i lofnodi gan yr arweinydd a holl arweinwyr y pleidiau - arweinydd pob grŵp - a oedd yn nodi, 'Rydym yn parhau i ddadlau ein bod ninnau, fel cyngor sy'n cael lefel isel o gyllid y pen o dan fformiwla ariannu llywodraeth leol, yn fwy agored na'r rhan fwyaf'. Wedyn, yn y gyllideb ddrafft, fe wnaethoch roi'r trydydd setliad isaf iddynt yng Nghymru. Mae uwch gynghorwyr yn sir y Fflint wedi dweud wrthyf yn ystod yr wythnosau diwethaf nad ydynt am herio'r fformiwla ariannu yn agored, ar y sail y byddai'n rhaid i gynghorau eraill gael llai er mwyn iddynt hwy gael mwy, ac ni fyddent yn cael cefnogaeth allanol. Fodd bynnag, sut yr ymatebwch i'r llythyr a gawsoch gan arweinwyr cynghorau yng ngogledd Cymru, wedi'i lofnodi gan bob arweinydd, o bob plaid, ac sy'n nodi nad yw manteision eich setliadau dros dro yn y gyllideb ddrafft yn cael eu rhannu'n ddigon teg, a'u bod yn gadael y mwyafrif o'r cynghorau yn y gogledd gyda setliad sy'n sylweddol is na chostau net y pwysau ariannol, chwyddiant a newid demograffig?
English: Thank you, Llywydd. In discussing the draft budget yesterday, quite some attention was given to the very important issue of decarbonisation. So, what are the Government's priorities in terms of encouraging decarbonisation in transport in Wales?
Welsh: Diolch, Llywydd. Wrth drafod y gyllideb ddrafft ddoe, mi gafodd cryn sylw ei roi i'r testun pwysig iawn o ddadgarboneiddio. Beth ydy blaenoriaethau'r Llywodraeth o ran annog dadgarboneiddio mewn trafnidiaeth yng Nghymru?
English: Our Government's priorities in terms of decarbonisation are very much taken on the advice that we take from the UK Committee on Climate Change, which does, as you say, recognise transport alongside housing as those two areas where Welsh Government does need to be making, or putting our efforts. So, you'll see that we've invested £430 million already - well, by the end of next year - in the south Wales metro. And that really does reaffirm a major commitment to carbon reduction. Trains running on lines north out of Cardiff will be 100 per cent electric traction, with the electricity sourced from 100 per cent renewable sources. And the budget, obviously, continues to invest in the electric car infrastructure, although I do appreciate that we are at an early stage on that piece of work.
Welsh: Mae blaenoriaethau ein Llywodraeth mewn perthynas â datgarboneiddio yn cael eu llywio i raddau helaeth gan y cyngor a gawn gan Bwyllgor y DU ar y Newid yn yr Hinsawdd, sydd, fel y dywedwch, yn cydnabod trafnidiaeth ochr yn ochr â thai fel y ddau faes y mae angen i Lywodraeth Cymru fod yn gwneud ymdrech ynddynt. Felly, fe welwch ein bod wedi buddsoddi £430 miliwn eisoes - wel, erbyn diwedd y flwyddyn nesaf - ym metro de Cymru. Ac mae hynny'n sicr yn dangos cryn ymrwymiad i leihau carbon. Bydd trenau sy'n rhedeg ar reilffyrdd i'r gogledd allan o Gaerdydd yn drenau tyniant trydan 100 y cant, gyda'r trydan yn dod o ffynonellau cwbl adnewyddadwy. Ac mae'r gyllideb, yn amlwg, yn parhau i fuddsoddi yn y seilwaith ceir trydan, er fy mod yn sylweddoli ei bod yn ddyddiau cynnar ar y gwaith hwnnw.
English: And that's where I want to go next, because yes, you are at a very early stage - a very early stage indeed - in terms of the investment that should be happening on a wide scale in terms of a charging network for electric vehicles. I look forward to participating in a debate here in the Chamber this afternoon on how to encourage the use of electric vehicles through the planning system. But in our budget agreement two years ago, your Government agreed to a Plaid Cymru request to invest £2 million in a national charging network. Was that spent, and, if it was, on what?
Welsh: Ac at hynny dwi am droi, achos ydych, mi ydych chi ar gyfnod cynnar iawn, iawn yn y buddsoddiad ddylai fod yn digwydd ar raddfa eang mewn rhwydwaith y wefru ar gyfer ceir trydan. Dwi'n edrych ymlaen at gymryd rhan mewn dadl yma yn Siambr y prynhawn yma ar sut i annog cerbydau trydan drwy'r drefn gynllunio. Ond yn ein cytundeb ar y gyllideb ddwy flynedd yn ôl, mi wnaeth eich Llywodraeth chi gytuno i gais Plaid Cymru i fuddsoddi £2 filiwn mewn rhwydwaith wefru genedlaethol gyhoeddus. A gafodd hwnnw ei wario ac ar beth?
English: I'll have to give you the reassurances that I will discuss with my colleague the Minister for Economy and Transport that that was spent, but, as we've discussed previously, I've been very clear with my colleagues that they need to be updating Plaid Cymru on the progress towards those items that we did jointly agree in our budget, and I will endeavour to provide that update to you.
Welsh: Bydd yn rhaid i mi roi sicrwydd i chi y byddaf yn trafod gyda fy nghyd-Weinidog, Gweinidog yr Economi a Thrafnidiaeth, fod yr arian hwnnw wedi'i wario, ond, fel rydym wedi trafod eisoes, rwyf wedi dweud yn glir iawn wrth fy nghyd-Weinidogion fod angen iddynt roi'r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i Blaid Cymru ar y cynnydd tuag at yr eitemau hynny y cytunasom arnynt ar y cyd yn ein cyllideb, a byddaf yn ymdrechu i roi'r diweddariad hwnnw i chi.
English: I have to say that it's been a cause of great frustration for me, having succeeded in reaching that agreement, to see these delays in spending the money. In a written response I received in November on Government expenditure over the past five years on charging infrastructure, we see that as little over £0.5 million is provided in grants to the councils of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Swansea back in May last year, and a little more allocated in September. Two million pounds wasn't much as it was, but it was very important to have that funding in place in order to give this sector a boost. But do you accept that spending only half of that throughout the whole of Wales on public charging points up until the end of last year is a proof of the Government's failure in turning spending pledges into reality? And if that's your attitude towards the charging network, doesn't that pose some very grave questions about the pledges made more broadly now in terms of tackling climate change and the willingness and ability of Government to turn those plans into reality?
Welsh: Wir yr, mae'n rhaid i fi ddweud, mae wedi bod yn destun rhwystredigaeth mawr i fi, ar ôl llwyddo i gael y cytundeb yna, i weld arafwch mawr wrth wario'r arian. Mewn ateb ysgrifenedig ym mis Tachwedd ynglŷn â gwariant Llywodraeth Cymru yn y pum mlynedd diwethaf ar isadeiledd gwefru, rydym ni'n gweld bod ychydig dros £0.5 miliwn yn cael ei roi mewn grantiau i gynghorau Sir Gaerfyrddin, sir Benfro, ac Abertawe yn ôl ym mis Mai y llynedd a tua'r un faint, mymryn yn fwy, wedi'i ddyrannu ym mis Medi. Doedd £2 filiwn ddim yn llawer fel yr oedd hi, ond mi oedd yn bwysig iawn cael yr arian yna er mwyn rhoi hwb yn y sector yma. Ond ydych chi'n derbyn bod llwyddo i wario dim ond hanner hynny drwy Gymru gyfan ar bwyntiau gwefru cyhoeddus hyd at ddiwedd y llynedd yn brawf o fethiant y Llywodraeth i droi addewidion gwariant yn realiti? Ac os mai dyna'ch agwedd chi tuag at y rhwydwaith gwefru, onid ydy hynny yn gofyn cwestiynau difrifol iawn ynglŷn â'r addewidion sy'n cael eu gwneud yn ehangach rŵan o ran taclo newid hinsawdd a pharodrwydd a gallu'r Llywodraeth i droi'r cynlluniau hynny i gyd yn realiti hefyd?
English: I would disagree with that, because I think that when we do make pledges, then we keep them. So, this budget that I have published now delivers on our major pledges that we made at the last election. So, it delivers on the 100,000 apprenticeships for all ages across the term of this Assembly; it delivers on doubling the amount that people can keep before paying for social care; it delivers on providing small businesses with support for their rates; and it delivers on all of those other items that were our key pledges, and so we can go to people next time, saying that we did deliver on those pledges. Insofar as electric vehicles are concerned, it is a very important issue and I'm pleased that you've secured the debate for it this afternoon. I think that there's a lot that the market needs to do yet. So, Mike Hedges, in the debate yesterday, was just reminding us that different kinds of vehicles will require different kinds of chargers. Now that, clearly, seems to me to be problematic. Just this week, the European Union has put into law a requirement that phone chargers for whichever kind of device, be they Android or Apple, will now need to be the same. That's good news for consumers. I don't know why we can't explore what we can do that could be good news for consumers to make this easier.
Welsh: Buaswn yn anghytuno â hynny, gan y credaf, pan fyddwn yn gwneud addewidion, y dylem eu cadw. Felly, mae'r gyllideb hon rwyf wedi'i chyhoeddi yn cyflawni'r addewidion mawr a wnaethom yn yr etholiad diwethaf. Felly, mae'n cyflawni o ran darparu'r 100,000 o brentisiaethau i bob oedran yn ystod tymor y Cynulliad hwn; mae'n cyflawni o ran dyblu'r swm y gall pobl ei gadw cyn talu am ofal cymdeithasol; mae'n cyflawni o ran darparu cefnogaeth i fusnesau bach gyda'u hardrethi; ac mae'n cyflawni mewn perthynas â'r holl eitemau eraill a oedd yn addewidion allweddol gennym, ac felly gallwn fynd at y bobl y tro nesaf, a dweud ein bod wedi cyflawni mewn perthynas â'r addewidion hynny. O ran cerbydau trydan, mae hwnnw'n fater pwysig iawn ac rwy'n falch eich bod wedi sicrhau'r ddadl ar hynny y prynhawn yma. Credaf fod llawer y mae angen i'r farchnad ei wneud o hyd. Felly, roedd Mike Hedges, yn y ddadl ddoe, yn ein hatgoffa y bydd angen gwahanol fathau o wefrwyr ar wahanol fathau o gerbydau. Nawr, yn amlwg, ymddengys i mi fod hynny'n broblem. Yr wythnos hon, mae'r Undeb Ewropeaidd wedi cyflwyno deddf sy'n ei gwneud yn ofynnol i wefrwyr ffonau ar gyfer pa fath bynnag o ddyfais, boed yn ddyfais Android neu Apple, fod yr un peth. Mae hynny'n newyddion da i ddefnyddwyr. Nid wyf yn gwybod pam na allwn archwilio beth y gallem ei wneud a allai fod yn newyddion da i ddefnyddwyr i wneud hyn yn haws.
English: Diolch, Llywydd. Minister, yesterday saw a debate brought to this Chamber on the draft budget. Of course, key to placing the Welsh economy on a better footing is to better support Wales's small businesses. Can you tell us how this draft budget proposes to help the 95 per cent of Welsh businesses that are small and micro, employing, in many cases, under nine people each?
Welsh: Diolch, Lywydd. Ddoe, cafwyd dadl yn y Siambr hon ar y gyllideb ddrafft. Wrth gwrs, yr hyn sy'n allweddol er mwyn rhoi sylfaen well i economi Cymru yw cefnogi busnesau bach Cymru'n well. A allwch ddweud wrthym sut y mae'r gyllideb ddrafft hon yn cynnig helpu'r 95 y cant o fusnesau Cymru sy'n fusnesau bach a micro, ac sy'n cyflogi llai na naw o bobl yr un, mewn sawl achos?
English: Certainly. The budget sets out our commitments to supporting businesses, particularly small and medium enterprises, through our support for business rates. You'll know that, in Wales, around half of businesses pay no rates at all thanks to Welsh Government support, and that compares very favourably with across the border in England, where only around a third receive that level of support.
Welsh: Yn sicr. Mae'r gyllideb yn nodi ein hymrwymiadau i gefnogi busnesau, yn enwedig busnesau bach a chanolig, drwy ein cefnogaeth i ardrethi busnes. Fe wyddoch, yng Nghymru, nad yw oddeutu hanner y busnesau yn talu unrhyw ardrethi o gwbl diolch i gefnogaeth Llywodraeth Cymru, ac mae hynny'n cymharu'n ffafriol iawn â'r sefyllfa dros y ffin yn Lloegr, lle nad oes ond oddeutu traean yn unig yn cael y lefel honno o gefnogaeth.
English: Minister, you are right to say that there are a number of businesses that pay no rates at all. I visited Chepstow high street recently and on one street there, there are a number of businesses that aren't paying rates. Unfortunately, in the same street, there are then businesses that are of a very similar size but may fall into a different zone that find themselves clobbered with really high rates of business rates relative to the size of the business. So, would you agree with me that there's an argument here for reviewing this whole system to make sure that it's fairer? If you look at land transaction tax for non-commercial properties over £1 million and business rates, it seems to be that these are outstripping our counterparts in Scotland and England at the moment - an issue I raised yesterday. So, could you undertake to look again at business rates? They are a tax, effectively, and they are affecting many of our particularly small businesses, which are the backbone of the economy.
Welsh: Weinidog, rydych yn llygad eich lle yn dweud bod nifer o fusnesau'n osgoi talu unrhyw ardrethi o gwbl. Ymwelais â stryd fawr Cas-gwent yn ddiweddar, ac ar un stryd yno, ceir nifer o fusnesau nad ydynt yn talu ardrethi. Yn anffodus, ar yr un stryd, ceir busnesau hefyd sydd o faint tebyg iawn, ond mewn parth gwahanol o bosibl, sy'n gorfod talu ardrethi busnes uchel iawn o ystyried maint y busnes. Felly, a fyddech yn cytuno â mi bod dadl yma dros adolygu'r system gyfan i sicrhau ei bod yn decach? Os edrychwch ar dreth drafodiadau tir ar gyfer eiddo anfasnachol dros £1 filiwn ac ardrethi busnes, ymddengys bod y rhain yn fwy na'n cymheiriaid yn yr Alban a Lloegr ar hyn o bryd - mater a godais ddoe. Felly, a wnewch chi ymrwymo i edrych eto ar ardrethi busnes? Maent yn dreth, i bob pwrpas, ac maent yn effeithio ar lawer o'n busnesau arbennig o fach, sy'n asgwrn cefn yr economi.
English: We are currently looking at the future of local taxes, so looking at business rates and council tax, in partnership, to explore whether there is some local government finance reform that needs to be undertaken. We've undertaken a suite of research to help us with that, including what would the implications be if we were to move to a land value tax, for example; looking at the implications of potential revaluation, who would be the winners and losers; and then also some work that looks at the implications of universal credit, specifically on the council tax side of local taxation. So we're certainly bringing together a suite of research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, from Bangor University and elsewhere, which we'll be publishing in a series of documents over the course of the coming three months, I imagine, and they'll be available for all colleagues to explore in terms of exploring a potential better way to do local taxation. What I will say is that we don't want to introduce reform for the sake of reform, but I think that there certainly is a case to introduce some further fairness and some further coherence into the system.
Welsh: Ar hyn o bryd, rydym yn edrych ar ddyfodol trethi lleol, felly rydym yn edrych ar ardrethi busnes a'r dreth gyngor, mewn partneriaeth, i archwilio a oes angen diwygio rhywfaint ar gyllid llywodraeth leol. Rydym wedi bwrw iddi ar sawl maes ymchwil i'n helpu gyda hynny, gan gynnwys edrych i weld beth fyddai'r goblygiadau pe baem yn newid i dreth gwerth tir, er enghraifft; edrych ar oblygiadau ailbrisio posibl, pwy fyddai'n ennill a phwy fyddai'n colli; a rhywfaint o waith sy'n edrych ar oblygiadau credyd cynhwysol, yn benodol ar ochr y dreth gyngor o drethiant lleol. Felly, rydym yn sicr yn dod â llawer o ymchwil at ei gilydd gan y Sefydliad Astudiaethau Cyllid, gan Brifysgol Bangor a mannau eraill, a byddwn yn ei chyhoeddi mewn cyfres o ddogfennau dros y tri mis nesaf, rwy'n credu, a byddant ar gael i'r holl gyd-Aelodau eu harchwilio i weld a oes ffordd well o weithredu trethi lleol. Yr hyn y byddaf yn ei ddweud yw nad ydym am ddiwygio er mwyn diwygio, ond yn sicr, credaf fod yna achos dros gyflwyno mwy o degwch a mwy o gydlyniad i'r system.
English: Well, we're not proposing major changes to either council tax or non-domestic rates in the next financial year. What we are proposing is to gather that research and that evidence base in order to inform our thinking for the years forward. But, I'm particularly interested in a discussion that I had with the cross-party group on small shops, which was chaired by your colleague Janet Finch-Saunders recently. We talked about the value of small and medium-sized enterprises, and in this case we were particularly talking about the high street. The discussion turned to what, if we were to look afresh at business rates, we would we be requiring. Is there a better way to tie business rates to the kind of issues that we have in our economic contract? How would we, perhaps, factor in fair work or decarbonisation and so on? We don't want to create a hugely laborious, difficult and complicated system, but I think that it is only fair to think about things differently, including in terms of the green agenda as well.
Welsh: Wel, nid ydym yn argymell newidiadau mawr naill ai i'r dreth gyngor neu i ardrethi annomestig yn y flwyddyn ariannol nesaf. Yr hyn rydym yn ei gynnig yw casglu'r ymchwil a'r sylfaen dystiolaeth honno er mwyn llywio ein syniadau ar gyfer y blynyddoedd i ddod. Ond mae gennyf ddiddordeb arbennig mewn trafodaeth a gefais yn ddiweddar gyda'r grŵp trawsbleidiol ar siopau bach, a gadeiriwyd gan eich cyd-Aelod, Janet Finch-Saunders. Buom yn siarad am werth busnesau bach a chanolig, ac yn yr achos hwn, buom yn siarad yn benodol am y stryd fawr. Trodd y drafodaeth at yr hyn y buasem yn gofyn amdano pe baem yn edrych o'r newydd ar ardrethi busnes. A oes ffordd well o glymu ardrethi busnes â'r math o bethau sydd gennym yn ein contract economaidd? Sut y byddem, o bosibl, yn sicrhau ein bod yn ystyried gwaith teg neu ddatgarboneiddio ac ati? Nid ydym am greu system hynod lafurus, anodd a chymhleth, ond credaf ei bod yn deg meddwl am bethau'n wahanol, gan gynnwys mewn perthynas â'r agenda werdd hefyd.
English: Diolch, Llywydd. Stepping back from the specifics of this budget, and the particular difficulties that we've had with the timing of the UK budget relative to our own, what view does the finance Minister take about how our budget process works in the round? How well, or otherwise, does it compare to what we might see as best practice from other legislatures, whether within the UK or internationally? Does she see a case, as we have more and more tax devolution and this institution matures, for moving to a legislative budget process?
Welsh: Diolch, Lywydd. Gan gamu'n ôl o fanylion y gyllideb hon, a'r anawsterau penodol rydym wedi'u cael gydag amseriad cyllideb y DU mewn perthynas â'n cyllideb ein hunain, beth yw barn y Gweinidog Cyllid ynglŷn â sut y mae ein proses gyllidebol yn gweithio yn gyffredinol? Pa mor dda, neu fel arall, y mae'n cymharu â'r hyn y gallem ei ystyried yn arfer gorau gan ddeddfwrfeydd eraill, boed hynny yn y DU neu'n rhyngwladol? A yw hi o'r farn fod achos i'w gael, wrth i fwy a mwy o drethi gael eu datganoli ac wrth i'r sefydliad hwn aeddfedu, dros symud at broses cyllideb ddeddfwriaethol?
English: The way the process works, with a draft budget and then a period of at least several weeks of apparent consultation and consideration of what's in that draft budget before we then bring forward a final budget for consideration, I wonder whether that process gives the impression to people outwith the Welsh Government in particular who may receive, or benefit from, funding that there is a greater opportunity to change that budget in a more significant way than experience suggests may actually be the case. I wonder how much the finance Minister expects to make changes to the draft budget when she comes with the final budget. For instance, one area where I think, on a cross-party basis, concerns have been raised is about the real-terms reduction in bus subsidy. Is that something where it's realistic for us to expect the Minister to have heard those representations and to make a change in response to them, or is it that the process allows people to think and perhaps be led on to expect a greater possibility of change, impact and influence than the budget process actually allows for more often than not?
Welsh: O ran y ffordd y mae'r broses yn gweithio, gyda chyllideb ddrafft a chyfnod wedyn o sawl wythnos o leiaf o ymgynghori ymddangosiadol ac ystyried cynnwys y gyllideb ddrafft honno cyn i ni gyflwyno cyllideb derfynol wedyn i'w hystyried, tybed a yw'r broses honno'n rhoi'r argraff i bobl y tu allan i Lywodraeth Cymru yn arbennig a allai dderbyn neu elwa o gyllid fod mwy o gyfle i newid y gyllideb honno mewn ffordd fwy sylweddol nag y mae profiad yn awgrymu sy'n wir. Tybed faint o newidiadau y mae'r Gweinidog Cyllid yn disgwyl eu gwneud i'r gyllideb ddrafft pan fydd yn cyhoeddi'r gyllideb derfynol. Er enghraifft, un maes y credaf y codwyd pryderon yn ei gylch ar sail drawsbleidiol yw'r gostyngiad mewn termau real yn y cymhorthdal bysiau. A yw hynny'n rhywbeth y mae'n realistig inni ddisgwyl bod y Gweinidog wedi clywed y sylwadau hynny ac wedi'i newid mewn ymateb iddynt, neu a yw'r broses yn caniatáu i bobl feddwl ac efallai i gael eu harwain i ddisgwyl mwy o bosibilrwydd o newid, effaith a dylanwad nag y mae'r broses gyllidebol yn caniatáu ar ei gyfer yn amlach na pheidio?