English: UK Government's coronavirus job retention scheme helps underpin support for businesses by relieving significant fixed-cost pressures, and the self-employed income support scheme enables many sole traders and freelancers to get through the crisis with the financial support that they desperately need. Only the UK Government, with its resources, could have played this role, and I welcome what they have done. Now, with those schemes having been announced, it's allowed us, as a Welsh Government, to target the more limited funding that we have into supporting those businesses in Wales that fall through the gaps. The first element of our support was announced with a full package back in early March, on 18 March. That announcement included more than £350 million to help businesses with their non-domestic rates bills, and I'm pleased to tell Members that the new rate relief will be in place from today. It also included automatic small business grants of £10,000 for businesses across all sectors occupying properties with a rateable value of £12,000 and less, and £25,000 for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses occupying premises with a rateable value between £12,001 and £51,000. I'm incredibly grateful to local authorities who'll be dispersing these grants on our behalf. We're hoping that businesses with start receiving these grants this week. On Monday, we subsequently announced our new £500 million economic resilience fund, which aims to plug the gaps in the support schemes announced by the UK Government. This Wales-only fund will support firms of all sizes, including social enterprises, with a focus on those that have not already benefited from the coronavirus grants already announced by Welsh Government. Now, the fund is made up of two main elements. Firstly, a new £100 million Development Bank of Wales business loan scheme. And then, secondly, a £400 million emergency grant pot. In total, we've committed more than £1.7 billion into mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on our economy. Now, the Development Bank of Wales has already received over 500 applications for loans. I'll be meeting with the high street banks again tomorrow, and I'll be raising with them the need to be more flexible and more considerate in responding to clients, particularly for those self-employed or who need bridging support between now and June. At this point I'd like to pay tribute to the staff at both the Development Bank of Wales and at Business Wales, and also my officials who've been working day and night to develop the schemes. The Business Wales helpline has now dealt with almost 4,000 queries since 9 March. I'd also like to salute the many Welsh companies and universities who are now directly engaged in addressing specific challenges. This includes considerable activity in the production of ventilators, face shields, PPE, beds, mattresses and sheeting. We're not merely relying on current supply routes, but building alternatives where the demand cannot be met. I'd briefly like to touch on our response on rail, bus and air services. The ambition of Welsh Government remains to create a sustainable integrated public transport network, including community transport right across Wales, and I've made a series of decisions to help to safeguard public transport across Wales. These were announced in my written statement just yesterday. I've agreed a package of support worth up to £40 million for Transport for Wales over the next few months to allow us to give certainty to rail passengers in Wales. As well as recommending that local authorities continue to pay a minimum of 75 per cent of the contract value for school and other contracted local passenger services, I've now injected £29 million of grants to help bus operators through the inevitable uncertainty of the next three months. And finally, after discussions with Eastern Airways, I've temporarily suspended the Cardiff to Anglesey public service obligation air service for an initial period of three months. So, to close, my key message to businesses and to employees is very clear: if you had a good business in 2019, we want to support you to have a good business in 2021; and if you had a good job in 2019, we want to support you to have a good job in 2021. We must work together with compassion, with urgency, and with care to get through the significant challenges that we face and to come out the other side to the fairer, more equal and kinder economy that I think we all wish to see.
Welsh: Mae cynllun cadw swyddi drwy gyfnod coronafeirws Llywodraeth y DU yn helpu i gryfhau cymorth i fusnesau drwy liniaru pwysau sylweddol ar gostau sefydlog, ac mae'r cynllun cymhorthdal incwm i'r hunangyflogedig yn galluogi llawer o unig fasnachwyr a gweithwyr llawrydd i ymdopi â'r argyfwng gyda'r cymorth ariannol sydd ei angen arnynt yn ddirfawr. Dim ond Llywodraeth y DU, gyda'i hadnoddau, a allai fod wedi chwarae'r rôl hon, ac rwy'n croesawu'r hyn y maent wedi'i wneud. Nawr, gyda'r cynlluniau hynny wedi'u cyhoeddi, mae wedi caniatáu i ni, fel Llywodraeth Cymru, dargedu'r cyllid mwy cyfyngedig sydd gennym i gefnogi'r busnesau hynny yng Nghymru sy'n disgyn drwy'r bylchau. Cyhoeddwyd elfen gyntaf ein cymorth gyda phecyn llawn yn ôl ar ddechrau mis Mawrth, ar 18 Mawrth. Roedd y cyhoeddiad hwnnw'n cynnwys mwy na £350 miliwn i helpu busnesau gyda'u biliau ardrethi annomestig, ac rwy'n falch o ddweud wrth yr Aelodau y bydd y rhyddhad ardrethi newydd ar gael o heddiw ymlaen. Roedd hefyd yn cynnwys grantiau busnesau bach awtomatig o £10,000 i fusnesau ar draws pob sector sy'n meddiannu eiddo â gwerth ardrethol o £12,000 a llai, a £25,000 ar gyfer busnesau manwerthu, lletygarwch a hamdden sy'n meddiannu safleoedd â gwerth ardrethol rhwng £12,001 a £51,000. Rwy'n hynod ddiolchgar i awdurdodau lleol a fydd yn dosbarthu'r grantiau hyn ar ein rhan. Rydym yn gobeithio y bydd busnesau'n dechrau derbyn y grantiau hyn yr wythnos hon. Ddydd Llun, fe wnaethom gyhoeddi ein cronfa cydnerthedd economaidd £500 miliwn newydd, sy'n ceisio llenwi'r bylchau yn y cynlluniau cymorth a gyhoeddwyd gan Lywodraeth y DU. Bydd y gronfa hon sydd ar gyfer Cymru'n unig yn cefnogi cwmnïau o bob maint, gan gynnwys mentrau cymdeithasol, gyda ffocws ar y rheini nad ydynt wedi elwa ar y grantiau coronafeirws a gyhoeddwyd eisoes gan Lywodraeth Cymru. Nawr, mae'r gronfa'n cynnwys dwy brif elfen. Yn gyntaf, cynllun benthyciadau busnes newydd Banc Datblygu Cymru sy'n werth £100 miliwn. Ac yn ail, pot grantiau argyfwng sy'n werth £400 miliwn. Gyda'i gilydd, rydym wedi ymrwymo mwy na £1.7 biliwn tuag at liniaru effaith COVID-19 ar ein heconomi. Nawr, mae Banc Datblygu Cymru eisoes wedi derbyn dros 500 o geisiadau am fenthyciadau. Byddaf yn cyfarfod â banciau'r stryd fawr eto yfory, a byddaf yn tynnu eu sylw at yr angen i fod yn fwy hyblyg ac yn fwy ystyriol wrth ymateb i gleientiaid, yn enwedig i'r rheini sy'n hunangyflogedig neu sydd angen cymorth pontio rhwng nawr a mis Mehefin. Ar y pwynt hwn hoffwn dalu teyrnged i staff Banc Datblygu Cymru a Busnes Cymru, a hefyd fy swyddogion sydd wedi bod yn gweithio ddydd a nos i ddatblygu'r cynlluniau. Mae llinell gymorth Busnes Cymru bellach wedi ymdrin â bron 4,000 o ymholiadau ers 9 Mawrth. Hoffwn hefyd roi teyrnged i'r nifer fawr o gwmnïau a phrifysgolion yng Nghymru sydd bellach yn mynd ati'n uniongyrchol i ateb heriau penodol. Mae hyn yn cynnwys cryn weithgarwch yn cynhyrchu peiriannau anadlu, sgriniau wyneb, cyfarpar diogelu personol, gwelyau, matresi a gorchuddion. Nid dibynnu ar lwybrau cyflenwi presennol yn unig a wnawn, ond adeiladu atebion amgen lle na ellir diwallu'r galw. Hoffwn gyfeirio'n fyr at ein hymateb ar wasanaethau trên, bws ac awyr. Uchelgais Llywodraeth Cymru o hyd yw creu rhwydwaith trafnidiaeth gyhoeddus integredig gynaliadwy, gan gynnwys trafnidiaeth gymunedol ledled Cymru, ac rwyf wedi gwneud cyfres o benderfyniadau i helpu i ddiogelu trafnidiaeth gyhoeddus ledled Cymru. Cyhoeddwyd y rhain yn fy natganiad ysgrifenedig ddoe ddiwethaf. Rwyf wedi cytuno i becyn cymorth gwerth hyd at £40 miliwn ar gyfer Trafnidiaeth Cymru dros y misoedd nesaf er mwyn inni allu rhoi sicrwydd i deithwyr rheilffyrdd yng Nghymru. Yn ogystal ag argymell bod awdurdodau lleol yn parhau i dalu o leiaf 75 y cant o werth y contract ar gyfer gwasanaethau ysgol a gwasanaethau contract i deithwyr lleol eraill, rwyf bellach wedi chwistrellu £29 miliwn o grantiau i helpu gweithredwyr bysiau drwy ansicrwydd anochel y tri mis nesaf. Ac yn olaf, ar ôl trafodaethau gydag Eastern Airways, rwyf wedi atal y gwasanaeth awyr rhwymedigaeth gwasanaeth cyhoeddus rhwng Caerdydd ac Ynys Môn am gyfnod cychwynnol o dri mis. Felly, i gloi, mae fy neges allweddol i fusnesau ac i weithwyr yn glir iawn: os oedd gennych fusnes da yn 2019, rydym am eich cynorthwyo i gael busnes da yn 2021; ac os oedd gennych swydd dda yn 2019, rydym am eich cynorthwyo i gael swydd dda yn 2021. Rhaid inni weithio gyda'n gilydd gyda thosturi, brys a gofal i oresgyn yr heriau sylweddol sy'n ein hwynebu a dod allan ar y pen arall i'r economi decach, fwy cyfartal a mwy caredig y credaf fod pawb ohonom am ei gweld.