English: Please can I ask for a statement, Minister, from the Minister for health, about the real living wage? Since Welsh Government announced its financial support to social care providers to ensure that all support workers will receive the real living wage, there have been complaints that providers are not receiving the funding that was supposed to be channelled to them through local authorities and health boards. There is considerable confusion about how the money should be passed on. Some local authorities and health boards refuse to provide funding if a commissioned service isn't located in their territory, while others take a completely different approach and refuse funding if they do not directly commission services with the local provider. One Welsh care provider expects to occur additional costs of more than £250,000 per year for implementing the real living wage increase, yet, seven months after rising wages, it has only been offered an additional £23,000 annually to cover its costs. Welsh Government has admitted that they knew that - and I quote - implementation would be challenging for local authorities and health boards in the first year, and that they are aware that there may have been different approaches across local authorities and health boards. Providers have not been reassured by the Welsh Government's vague assertion that independent dynamic evaluation and their own monitoring processes on the effectiveness of the roll-out will be able to identify improvements and develop better processes for the future. And in this economically challenging time, providers are increasingly frustrated that the Welsh Government is not providing greater leadership in resolving this urgent problem, which is causing considerable financial hardship for Welsh social care employers. So, please, Minister, can the health Minister make a statement to provide social care providers with specific details around the process of dynamic evaluation monitoring - who is managing this, what are the timelines for reporting, and when can the planned process improvements be expected? Also, where providers have had to fund the real living wage increases on behalf of the Welsh Government, will the Welsh Government reimburse them for the interest on these moneys? Thank you.
Welsh: A gaf i ofyn am ddatganiad, Gweinidog, gan y Gweinidog iechyd, ynghylch y cyflog byw gwirioneddol? Ers i Lywodraeth Cymru gyhoeddi ei chymorth ariannol i ddarparwyr gofal cymdeithasol er mwyn sicrhau y bydd pob gweithiwr cymorth yn cael y cyflog byw gwirioneddol, mae cwynion wedi bod nad yw darparwyr yn cael y cyllid oedd i fod i'w cyrraedd drwy awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd. Mae cryn ddryswch ynglŷn â sut y dylai'r arian gael ei drosglwyddo. Mae rhai awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd yn gwrthod darparu cyllid os nad yw gwasanaeth wedi'i gomisiynu wedi'i leoli yn eu tiriogaeth, ac mae eraill yn cymryd agwedd hollol wahanol ac yn gwrthod cyllid os nad ydyn nhw'n comisiynu gwasanaethau yn uniongyrchol gyda'r darparwr lleol. Mae un darparwr gofal o Gymru yn disgwyl mynd i gostau ychwanegol o fwy na £250,000 y flwyddyn am weithredu'r cynnydd mewn cyflog byw gwirioneddol, ond eto, saith mis ar ôl i gyflogau gynyddu, dim ond £23,000 ychwanegol y mae wedi cael cynnig yn flynyddol er mwyn talu ei gostau. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi cyfaddef eu bod nhw'n gwybod hynny - ac rwy'n dyfynnu - byddai gweithredu'n heriol i awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd yn y flwyddyn gyntaf, a'u bod yn ymwybodol efallai bod dulliau gwahanol wedi digwydd ar draws awdurdodau lleol a byrddau iechyd. Nid yw darparwyr wedi cael sicrwydd gan honiad annelwig Llywodraeth Cymru y bydd gwerthuso deinamig annibynnol a'u prosesau monitro eu hunain ar effeithiolrwydd y broses o gyflwyno yn gallu nodi gwelliannau a datblygu prosesau gwell ar gyfer y dyfodol. Ac yn y cyfnod economaidd heriol hwn, mae darparwyr yn gynyddol rhwystredig nad yw Llywodraeth Cymru'n darparu mwy o arweinyddiaeth i ddatrys y broblem frys hon, sy'n achosi caledi ariannol sylweddol i gyflogwyr gofal cymdeithasol Cymru. Felly, os gwelwch yn dda, Gweinidog, a all y Gweinidog iechyd wneud datganiad i roi manylion penodol i ddarparwyr gofal cymdeithasol ynghylch y broses o fonitro gwerthuso deinamig - pwy sy'n rheoli hyn, beth yw'r amserlenni ar gyfer adrodd, a phryd y mae modd disgwyl gwelliannau'r broses wedi'u cynllunio? Hefyd, pan fo darparwyr wedi gorfod ariannu'r cynnydd mewn cyflog byw gwirioneddol ar ran Llywodraeth Cymru, a fydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn eu had-dalu am y llog ar yr arian hyn? Diolch.