English: Mark, I know that the Cabinet Secretary for local government is more than happy to discuss with the local government family any changes to the funding formula for overall spending or, indeed, the data that are used to calculate notional spends on education. What you're talking about - that disparity in funding between individual schools - shows the complexity of the Welsh education system and why it would be extremely difficult to find a single national funding formula. How do you find a single funding formula that accounts for the needs of a school in a highly deprived area or a school, like the one in Adamsdown, where the children speak 44 different languages, compared to the challenges of delivering education in a tiny, tiny rural school, where it is inevitable that the cost per pupil in that school is going to be significantly higher than it would be in a larger establishment? I mean, we cannot, Mark - we cannot use these challenging circumstances around funding as an excuse. I know, in my own constituency, the high school that has the best results constantly tells me that because of the system that Powys County Council uses, they're the school that gets the least funding per pupil, but their results, the outcomes for their children, are better than everybody else's. But I will try to make some progress. We will continue to work with local government, regional consortia and schools to ensure that our shared vision for improving educational outcomes for all learners in Wales is realised. Llyr, I want to give you my assurance that, where there is concern that money is either being held inappropriately at local government level, or being held inappropriately at regional consortia level, then we will go in and we will have a look at exactly how that money is or isn't getting to the front line, and there is a regional consortia at this very moment where we're doing that piece of work so that we can satisfy ourselves that my ambition to get as much resource into individual school budgets is happening. We are providing more than £187 million over the next two years through the pupil development grant to help our most disadvantaged learning and we will invest £225 million through the education improvement grant. We're also investing £36 million to reduce class sizes, targeted at those areas that will benefit the most, and there are additional teachers being employed throughout Wales to assist us in this aim. Over this Assembly term, we're investing £100 million to raise school standards, and more than half of this investment is prioritised towards improving teaching and learning, because I recognise that our teachers are the single greatest agents of change and improvement in the classroom. Now, Leanne, quite rightly, in her contribution, talked about the ambitious curriculum reforms that we're undergoing, and, Leanne, we will ensure that, over the next two years, the £20 million is invested specifically in the implementation and preparedness for that curriculum work. I also know that time and funding is taken up by school maintenance issues - indeed, Leanne mentioned these herself in the contribution that she made - as opposed to supporting learners. Now, I want teachers not to be worrying about those leaking roofs, I want them to be thinking about their pupils, about pedagogy and about the curriculum. So, that's why, in March, we made available an extra £14 million allocated directly to schools. This helped address small-scale maintenance issues, relieving pressures on budgets, and every single school across Wales benefited from that money, and it went directly to the front line. Leanne also talked about the state of our school buildings. Well, Leanne, our twenty first century schools programme represents the largest single investment in building new schools and colleges since the 1960s - £1.4 billion will be invested over band - [ Interruption.]
Welsh: Mark, gwn fod Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros lywodraeth leol yn fwy na pharod i drafod unrhyw newidiadau i'r fformiwla ariannu ar gyfer gwariant cyffredinol gyda'r teulu llywodraeth leol neu, yn wir, y data a ddefnyddir i gyfrifo gwariant tybiannol ar addysg. Mae'r hyn yr ydych yn sôn amdano - y gwahaniaeth o ran ariannu rhwng ysgolion unigol - yn dangos cymhlethdod y system addysg yng Nghymru a pham y byddai'n eithriadol o anodd dod o hyd i un fformiwla ariannu genedlaethol. Sut y gallwch ddod o hyd i un fformiwla ariannu ar gyfer anghenion ysgol mewn ardal neu ysgol ddifreintiedig iawn, fel yr un yn Adamsdown, lle mae'r plant yn siarad 44 o ieithoedd gwahanol, o'i gymharu â heriau darparu addysg mewn ysgol wledig fach iawn lle mae'n anochel y bydd y gost fesul disgybl yn yr ysgol honno gryn dipyn yn uwch nag y byddai mewn sefydliad mwy o faint? Hynny yw, ni allwn, Mark - ni allwn ddefnyddio'r amgylchiadau heriol hyn mewn perthynas â chyllid fel esgus. Yn fy etholaeth i, gwn fod yr ysgol uwchradd sy'n cael y canlyniadau gorau yn gyson yn dweud wrthyf, oherwydd y system a ddefnyddir gan Gyngor Sir Powys, mai hwy yw'r ysgol sy'n cael y lleiaf o arian fesul disgybl, ond mae eu canlyniadau, y canlyniadau ar gyfer eu plant, yn well na rhai pawb arall. Ond fe geisiaf wneud rhywfaint o gynnydd. Fe fyddwn yn parhau i weithio gyda llywodraeth leol, consortia rhanbarthol ac ysgolion i sicrhau y gwireddir ein gweledigaeth ar gyfer gwella canlyniadau addysgol i bob dysgwr yng Nghymru. Llyr, rwyf am eich sicrhau, lle y ceir pryder fod arian naill ai'n cael ei gadw mewn modd amhriodol ar lefel llywodraeth leol, neu'n cael ei gadw mewn modd amhriodol ar lefel consortia rhanbarthol, yna byddwn yn mynd i mewn i edrych i weld sut yn union y mae'r arian hwnnw yn mynd i'r rheng flaen neu fel arall, a cheir consortia rhanbarthol ar hyn o bryd lle rydym yn gwneud y gwaith hwnnw fel y gallwn fodloni ein hunain fod fy uchelgais i gael cymaint o adnoddau i gyllidebau ysgolion unigol yn cael ei wireddu. Rydym yn darparu mwy na £187 miliwn dros y ddwy flynedd nesaf drwy'r grant datblygu disgyblion i helpu ein dysgwyr mwyaf difreintiedig a byddwn yn buddsoddi £225 miliwn drwy'r grant gwella addysg. Rydym hefyd yn buddsoddi £36 miliwn i leihau maint dosbarthiadau, wedi'i dargedu at yr ardaloedd a fydd yn elwa fwyaf, ac mae athrawon ychwanegol yn cael eu cyflogi ledled Cymru i'n helpu gyda'r nod hwn. Yn ystod tymor y Cynulliad hwn, rydym yn buddsoddi £100 miliwn i godi safonau mewn ysgolion, ac mae mwy na hanner y buddsoddiad hwn yn cael ei flaenoriaethu ar gyfer gwella addysgu a dysgu, oherwydd rwy'n cydnabod mai ein hathrawon yw'r cyfryngau newid a gwella mwyaf un yn yr ystafell ddosbarth. Nawr, siaradodd Leanne, yn hollol briodol yn ei chyfraniad am y diwygiadau uchelgeisiol rydym yn eu cyflawni i'r cwricwlwm, a Leanne, byddwn yn sicrhau, dros y ddwy flynedd nesaf, fod yr £20 miliwn yn cael ei fuddsoddi'n benodol ar weithrediad y gwaith cwricwlwm a pharodrwydd ar ei gyfer. Gwn hefyd fod materion cynnal a chadw ysgolion yn llyncu amser a chyllid - yn wir, soniodd Leanne am hyn ei hun yn y cyfraniad a wnaeth - yn hytrach na'u bod yn mynd tuag at gefnogi dysgwyr. Nawr, rwyf am i athrawon beidio â phoeni am doeau sy'n gollwng, rwyf am iddynt fod yn meddwl am eu disgyblion, am addysgeg ac am y cwricwlwm. Felly, dyna pam, ym mis Mawrth, y rhyddhawyd £14 miliwn ychwanegol gennym i'w ddyrannu'n uniongyrchol i ysgolion. Helpodd hyn i ymdrin â materion cynnal a chadw ar raddfa fach, gan leddfu'r pwysau ar gyllidebau, ac fe elwodd pob ysgol ledled Cymru o'r arian hwnnw, ac aeth yn uniongyrchol i'r rheng flaen. Soniodd Leanne am gyflwr adeiladau ein hysgolion hefyd. Wel, Leanne, ein rhaglen ysgolion ar gyfer yr unfed ganrif ar hugain yw'r buddsoddiad unigol mwyaf mewn adeiladu ysgolion a cholegau newydd ers y 1960au - buddsoddir £1.4 biliwn dros fand - [ Torri ar draws.]