English: Welsh Government issues thousands of award letters every year to a wide range of stakeholders, such as local authorities, the third sector and private sector organisations for a really wide range of purposes, and they are intended to help us drive forward our policy objectives. Monitoring our grant funding is an integral method to ensuring that those projects deliver what is intended, but it is the case that monitoring activities are quite rightly varied and they should be specific to the funding that is being awarded, and those grant managers are responsible for establishing the correct level of monitoring that is needed. So, a wide range of activities can be used to obtain the assurance that we need that the grant requirements are being met. They can include progress reports, monitoring of targets and milestones, meetings and site visits, written reports, and claims from both the grant recipient and/or an independent third party. And as I said in the response to your first question, those form part of the legally binding award letter and those terms and conditions should be considered from the outset. Grant recipients should only be agreeing to those if they are convinced that they can meet those terms and conditions. I will say that grant managers are now able to seek advice, support and guidance through a range of sources, including our grants centre of excellence, corporate governance, legal services and their own operations team, so we do have a wide range of support and guidance available to grant managers to ensure that they're able to undertake that monitoring correctly. Active grant monitoring is absolutely key.
Welsh: Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn anfon miloedd o lythyrau dyfarnu bob blwyddyn at ystod eang o randdeiliaid, megis awdurdodau lleol, y trydydd sector a sefydliadau'r sector preifat at ystod eang iawn o ddibenion, a'u bwriad yw ein helpu i fwrw ymlaen â'n hamcanion polisi. Mae monitro ein cyllid grant yn elfen annatod o sicrhau bod y prosiectau hynny'n cyflawni'r hyn a fwriedir, ond mae'n wir ac yn gwbl briodol fod gweithgareddau monitro yn amrywiol a dylent fod yn benodol i'r cyllid sy'n cael ei ddyfarnu, ac mae'r rheolwyr grantiau hynny'n gyfrifol am sefydlu'r lefel gywir o fonitro sydd ei hangen. Felly, gellir defnyddio ystod eang o weithgareddau i gael y sicrwydd yr ydym ei angen fod gofynion y grantiau'n cael eu bodloni. Gallant gynnwys adroddiadau cynnydd, monitro targedau a cherrig milltir, cyfarfodydd ac ymweliadau safle, adroddiadau ysgrifenedig a hawliadau gan y sawl sy'n derbyn y grant a/neu drydydd parti annibynnol. Ac fel y dywedais yn yr ymateb i'ch cwestiwn cyntaf, mae'r rheini'n rhan o'r llythyr dyfarnu sy'n rhwymo mewn cyfraith a dylid ystyried y telerau a'r amodau hynny o'r cychwyn cyntaf. Ni ddylai derbynwyr grantiau gytuno i'r rheini os nad ydynt yn argyhoeddedig y gallant fodloni'r telerau ac amodau hynny. Rwyf am ddweud bod rheolwyr grantiau bellach yn gallu ceisio cyngor, cymorth ac arweiniad drwy amrywiaeth o ffynonellau, gan gynnwys ein canolfan ragoriaeth grantiau, llywodraethu corfforaethol, gwasanaethau cyfreithiol a'u tîm gweithrediadau eu hunain, felly mae gennym ystod eang o gymorth ac arweiniad ar gael i reolwyr grantiau allu sicrhau eu bod yn gallu cyflawni'r gwaith monitro hwnnw'n gywir. Mae monitro grantiau gweithredol yn gwbl allweddol.