English: Thank you very much for your statement, Cabinet Secretary. I wonder if you could help me out, please, when I'm asking some questions about education and the relationship between the education main expenditure group and some of the other department expenditure lines? Obviously, it's very pleasing to see the £60 million extra for education. It still falls a little short of the £100 million that we were expecting for school standards over the period, but I also see there's £30 million additional funding for schools. The majority, of course, of schools' core funding comes from local authorities, though. I have to say, within my own region, when I'm visiting schools and actually other services, the two main complaints I get about funding are schools specifically - so it's not education generally but schools specifically - and social care, which actually Mike Hedges has picked up on as well. I can see that there's been an increase in the local government and public spending MEG, but, of course, that's not just the RSG and it doesn't explain either where schools' core funding is within that £123 million and how that can be protected, whilst at the same time avoiding ring fencing. It's particularly important, I think, because, of course, when the Welsh Government in the last Assembly proclaimed that it had obviously added extra money for school protection, the majority of that money actually came from local government, which was already being squeezed, rather than from the central education budget. So, if you can explain to me a little bit about how schools' core funding is being looked after in that growth, I'd be very pleased, particularly because the primary legislation that deals with the funding formulas, if you like, for school funding are 20 years old now, and even the regulations beneath that are eight years old. So, there's a wider question for me, perhaps for another day, about whether that whole structure needs looking at anyway. The relationship with the Welsh language budget and the Welsh language education budget - obviously, we've had an announcement fairly recently of a capital increase, but bearing in mind that the Welsh Government's emphasis is going to be now on Welsh language education, not just Welsh-medium education - although we all note the difficulties there with getting young people involved in teachers' training for that - where are the Welsh language aspirations, shall we say, met? Because there was no reference to Welsh language in any of the speech that you gave today. Finally, the relationship with the health budget - it's obviously very pleasing to see some growth there, but as teachers and staff in schools are being asked to take on more responsibility regarding looking after children's pastoral requirements, their mental health in particular, does that increase in the health budget have a tiny little piece carved out, even if it's not formally, for improving school budgets, and would that count towards a school's core budget or would it be considered as an exterior income stream, if I can put it like that? Because obviously I'd be worried that, if there's any money going from health that then finds its way into the RSG where it gets no protection, it could get lost, despite the benevolent decision to use health spending to help schools improve the well-being of young people. Thank you.
Welsh: Diolch yn fawr iawn am eich datganiad, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet. Tybed a allech chi fy helpu, pan fyddaf yn gofyn rhai cwestiynau ynghylch addysg a'r berthynas rhwng y prif grŵp gwariant addysg a rhai o linellau gwariant adrannau eraill? Yn amlwg, mae'n braf iawn gweld y £60 miliwn ychwanegol ar gyfer addysg. Mae e dal yn llai na'r £100 miliwn yr oeddem yn ei ddisgwyl ar gyfer safonau ysgolion dros y cyfnod, ond gwelaf hefyd bod £30 miliwn o arian ychwanegol ar gyfer ysgolion ar gael. Mae'r rhan fwyaf o gyllid craidd ysgolion, wrth gwrs, yn dod gan awdurdodau lleol, er y mae'n rhaid imi ddweud, yn fy rhanbarth fy hun, pan fyddaf yn ymweld ag ysgolion a gwasanaethau eraill, y ddau brif gŵyn a glywaf o ran ariannu yw ysgolion yn benodol - nid addysg yn gyffredinol ond ysgolion yn benodol - a gofal cymdeithasol, y mae Mike Hedges wedi cyfeirio ato hefyd. Gallaf weld y bu cynnydd yn y prif grŵp gwariant llywodraeth leol a gwariant cyhoeddus, ond, wrth gwrs, nid dim ond y grant cynnal refeniw yw hynny ac nid yw'n egluro ychwaith ble mae cyllid craidd ysgolion o fewn y £123 miliwn hwnnw a sut y gellir ei ddiogelu, gan osgoi trefn neilltuo ar yr un pryd. Mae'n arbennig o bwysig, rwy'n credu, oherwydd pan gyhoeddodd Llywodraeth Cymru yn y Cynulliad diwethaf ei bod wedi ychwanegu mwy o arian ar gyfer amddiffyn ysgolion, mewn gwirionedd daeth y rhan fwyaf o'r arian hwnnw o lywodraeth leol, a oedd eisoes o dan bwysau, yn hytrach nag o'r gyllideb addysg ganolog. Felly, byddwn yn falch iawn petai chi'n gallu egluro i mi sut y mae cyllid craidd ysgolion yn cael ei warchod yn y twf hwnnw, yn enwedig gan fod y ddeddfwriaeth sylfaenol sy'n ymwneud â fformiwlâu cyllid ar gyfer ariannu ysgolion yn 20 mlwydd oed bellach, ac y mae hyd yn oed y rheoliadau o dan hynny yn wyth mlwydd oed. Felly, mae'n gwestiwn ehangach i mi, efallai ar gyfer diwrnod arall, ynghylch a oes angen edrych ar y strwythur cyfan hwnnw beth bynnag. Y berthynas gyda chyllideb yr iaith Gymraeg a chyllideb addysg Gymraeg - yn amlwg, cawsom gyhoeddiad yn weddol ddiweddar am gynnydd cyfalaf, ond o gofio bod Llywodraeth Cymru yn awr yn mynd i roi pwyslais ar y Gymraeg ym myd addysg, nid ar addysg cyfrwng Cymraeg yn unig - er ein bod ni i gyd yn ymwybodol o'r holl anawsterau a geir wrth geisio cael pobl ifanc i hyfforddi'n athrawon gyda hynny mewn golwg - ble caiff y dyheadau o ran yr iaith Gymraeg eu cyflawni oherwydd ni chafwyd unrhyw gyfeiriad at y Gymraeg yn unrhyw ran o'r araith a draddodoch chi heddiw. Yn olaf, y berthynas gyda'r gyllideb iechyd - mae hi'n amlwg yn braf iawn gweld rhywfaint o dwf yn hynny o beth, ond gan fod gofyn ar athrawon a staff mewn ysgolion i gymryd mwy o gyfrifoldeb o ran edrych ar ôl anghenion bugeiliol y plant, eu hiechyd meddwl yn benodol, a fydd rhan fach o'r cynnydd hwnnw yn y gyllideb iechyd yn cael ei neilltuo, hyd yn oed os nad yw mewn modd ffurfiol, ar gyfer gwella cyllidebau ysgol? A fyddai hynny'n cyfrif tuag at gyllideb graidd yr ysgol neu a fydd yn cael ei ystyried yn ffrwd incwm allanol, os gallaf ei fynegi fel yna? Oherwydd yn amlwg byddwn yn pryderu petai unrhyw arian yn cael ei dynnu oddi wrth iechyd ac wedyn yn mynd i mewn i'r grant cynnal refeniw lle nad yw'n ddiogel o gwbl. Gallai fynd ar goll er gwaethaf y penderfyniad caredig i ddefnyddio gwariant iechyd i helpu ysgolion i wella llesiant pobl ifanc. Diolch.