English: Well, I thank the Member for that question and for his generous opening to it. During the month of April, I was able to visit both Treorchy and Tonypandy high streets, talked to many businesses there, Llywydd, and there are lessons that different communities can learn from one another where success has been achieved and then to apply some of those lessons elsewhere. And it was great to have the opportunity to be there with my colleague Buffy Williams and to have those conversations. Now, businesses in Wales, Llywydd, know that they have a 12-month small business rate relief holiday for the whole of the coming year and that is in sharp distinction to what will happen across our border, of course, where those businesses will have to start paying rates again halfway through this financial year. I agree that there is a need to rethink the whole system of how we raise local taxation, but that is not an argument against having local taxes raised. Businesses benefit from all the public services that allow them to trade successfully, whether that is building roads and pavements that take their customers to them, whether it is making sure that when their employees fall sick they are able to use the national health service, or whether it is in the great investment that we make in education and skills to make sure that there is a workforce there for the future. Businesses benefit from all of that and it is right that they make a contribution to the conditions that allow them to succeed. How we do it, I agree, is a different matter, and there are a number of ideas in different parts of the United Kingdom that we will want to draw on as we think of ways in which we can make that system more effective for the future.
Welsh: Wel, diolch i'r Aelod am y cwestiwn yna ac am ei agoriad hael iddo. Yn ystod mis Ebrill, fe lwyddais i ymweld â strydoedd mawr Treorci a Thonypandy. Siaradais â llawer o fusnesau yno, Llywydd, ac mae gwersi y gall gwahanol gymunedau eu dysgu oddi wrth ei gilydd lle mae llwyddiant wedi ei gyflawni ac yna cymhwyso rhai o'r gwersi hynny mewn mannau eraill. Ac roedd yn wych cael y cyfle i fod yno gyda fy nghyd-Aelod Buffy Williams a chael y sgyrsiau hynny. Nawr, mae busnesau yng Nghymru, Llywydd, yn gwybod bod ganddyn nhw wyliau rhyddhad ardrethi i fusnesau bach o 12 mis am y flwyddyn gyfan i ddod ac mae hynny'n wahaniaeth llym i'r hyn a fydd yn digwydd dros ein ffin, wrth gwrs, lle bydd yn rhaid i'r busnesau hynny ddechrau talu ardrethi unwaith eto hanner ffordd drwy'r flwyddyn ariannol hon. Rwy'n cytuno bod angen ailystyried y system gyfan o ran sut yr ydym yn codi trethi lleol, ond nid yw hynny'n ddadl yn erbyn codi trethi lleol. Mae busnesau'n elwa ar yr holl wasanaethau cyhoeddus sy'n caniatáu iddyn nhw fasnachu'n llwyddiannus, boed hynny'n adeiladu ffyrdd a phalmentydd sy'n arwain eu cwsmeriaid atyn nhw, boed hynny'n sicrhau pan fydd eu gweithwyr yn sâl eu bod yn gallu defnyddio'r gwasanaeth iechyd gwladol, neu boed hynny drwy'r buddsoddiad mawr yr ydym ni'n ei wneud mewn addysg a sgiliau i sicrhau bod gweithlu ar gael ar gyfer y dyfodol. Mae busnesau'n elwa ar hynny i gyd ac mae'n iawn eu bod nhw'n cyfrannu at yr amodau sy'n caniatáu iddyn nhw lwyddo. Mae'r modd yr ydym yn gwneud hynny, rwy'n cytuno, yn fater gwahanol, ac mae nifer o syniadau mewn gwahanol rannau o'r Deyrnas Unedig y byddwn yn awyddus i'w hystyried wrth i ni feddwl am ffyrdd y gallwn wneud y system honno'n fwy effeithiol ar gyfer y dyfodol.