English: Llywydd, I thank Vikki Howells for those very specific questions. I'm grateful to those local authorities that have come forward offering to assist us with a basic income pilot, offering to do it in their own areas. As the Member knows, we are working on ideas to involve looked-after children, young people leaving the care of public authorities, as the way in which we could mount a basic income pilot here in Wales, and I'm grateful to Rhondda Cynon Taf council and other local authority leaders who have come forward to offer to assist us with it. I hope Members here will have had a chance to see the Law Commission's report published last week on coal tip safety. It's a sobering document. It touches on many of the things we've talked about this afternoon about the impact of climate change and rainfall in Valleys communities and the fact that standards of construction of coal tips, which were safe enough in their day, may well not be safe enough to go on protecting those communities from the impact of weather events, intensive rainfall and so on. It's a very, very good read, if anybody has a chance to look at it. It does rely on working with the UK Government, and let me say, I'm grateful for the fact that I've been able to co-chair, with the Secretary of State for Wales, the group that we have got together to work on coal tip safety. It was through that group that the possibility of Law Commission work was raised and then funded by my colleague, Lesley Griffiths when she was responsible for that area. I wish I had as much positive stuff to say on the vacant land tax. The process we have attempted to run is the process set out in the Government of Wales Act 2017, passed by a Conservative Government. It's that Act that lays out how we can draw down the authority to create a vacant land tax here in Wales. We chose a vacant land tax, Dirprwy Lywydd, as you will remember, to test that machinery, with a relatively uncontentious and very specific piece of legislation. Since the election in December 2019, we have faced, I think, a blanket refusal by the UK Government to operate the machinery that they themselves set down. We'd had reasonable co-operation under the Theresa May Government and we were making I thought very good progress in getting an agreement with the Treasury and others on it. It's been a blank wall since December 2019, and that's deeply disappointing and I think it's preventing us from being able to take forward an idea that other parts of the United Kingdom would have been able to learn from, using that living laboratory that devolution provides, in which we can all try different things and then learn from one another.
Welsh: Llywydd, rwy'n diolch i Vikki Howells am y cwestiynau penodol iawn hynny. Rwy'n ddiolchgar i'r awdurdodau lleol hynny sydd wedi camu ymlaen i gynnig ein cynorthwyo ni gyda chynllun treialu incwm sylfaenol, gan gynnig ei wneud yn eu hardaloedd eu hunain. Fel y mae'r Aelod yn gwybod, rydym ni'n gweithio ar syniadau i gynnwys plant sy'n derbyn gofal, pobl ifanc sy'n gadael gofal awdurdodau cyhoeddus, fel y ffordd y gallem ni gyflwyno cynllun treialu incwm sylfaenol yma yng Nghymru, ac rwy'n ddiolchgar i gyngor Rhondda Cynon Taf ac arweinwyr awdurdodau lleol eraill sydd wedi dod ymlaen i gynnig ein cynorthwyo gydag ef. Gobeithio y bydd yr Aelodau yma wedi cael cyfle i weld adroddiad Comisiwn y Gyfraith a gafodd ei gyhoeddi yr wythnos diwethaf ar ddiogelwch tipiau glo. Mae'n ddogfen sobreiddiol. Mae'n cyffwrdd â llawer o'r pethau yr ydym ni wedi sôn amdanyn nhw'r prynhawn yma o ran effaith newid hinsawdd a glawiad yng nghymunedau'r Cymoedd a'r ffaith ei bod yn ddigon posibl na fydd safonau adeiladu tipiau glo, a oedd yn ddigon diogel yn eu hamser, yn ddigon diogel i barhau i ddiogelu'r cymunedau hynny rhag effaith digwyddiadau tywydd, glawiad dwys ac yn y blaen. Mae'n gyhoeddiad da iawn, os oes unrhyw un yn cael cyfle i edrych arno. Mae'n dibynnu ar weithio gyda Llywodraeth y DU, a gadewch i mi ddweud, rwy'n ddiolchgar ynghylch y ffaith fy mod i wedi gallu cyd-gadeirio, gydag Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru, y grŵp yr ydym ni wedi dod at ei gilydd i weithio ar ddiogelwch tipiau glo. Drwy'r grŵp hwnnw cafodd posibilrwydd gwaith Comisiwn y Gyfraith ei godi ac yna ei ariannu gan fy nghyd-Aelod, Lesley Griffiths, pan yr oedd hi'n gyfrifol am y maes hwnnw. Byddai'n dda gennyf i pe bai gennyf i gymaint o bethau cadarnhaol i'w dweud am y dreth ar dir gwag. Y broses yr ydym ni wedi ceisio'i chynnal yw'r broses sydd wedi'i nodi yn Neddf Llywodraeth Cymru 2017, a gafodd ei chymeradwyo gan Lywodraeth Geidwadol. Y Ddeddf honno sy'n nodi sut y gallwn ni ddefnyddio awdurdod i greu treth ar dir gwag yma yng Nghymru. Gwnaethom ni ddewis treth ar dir gwag, Dirprwy Lywydd, fel y cofiwch, i brofi'r peirianwaith hwnnw, gyda darn cymharol annadleuol a phenodol iawn o ddeddfwriaeth. Ers yr etholiad ym mis Rhagfyr 2019, rydym ni wedi wynebu gwrthodiad cyffredinol, rwy'n credu, gan Lywodraeth y DU i weithredu'r mecanwaith yr oedden nhw wedi'i osod. Roeddem ni wedi cael cydweithrediad rhesymol o dan Lywodraeth Theresa May ac wrth i ni ei wneud, ystyriais ein bod ni'n gwneud cynnydd da iawn o ran cael cytundeb gyda'r Trysorlys ac eraill arno. Mae wedi bod yn dalcen caled ers mis Rhagfyr 2019, ac mae hynny'n siomedig iawn ac rwy'n credu ei fod yn ein hatal ni rhag gallu bwrw ymlaen â syniad y byddai rhannau eraill o'r Deyrnas Unedig wedi gallu dysgu oddi wrthyn nhw, gan ddefnyddio'r labordy byw hwnnw y mae datganoli'n ei ddarparu, lle gallwn ni i gyd roi cynnig ar wahanol bethau ac yna dysgu oddi wrth ein gilydd.