English: I'm very happy to set the record straight on both of those issues, and I'm grateful, particularly in relation to the first question, to have the opportunity to do so. On 5 August, I did write to the Finance Committee, and the letter has since been also shared with PAPAC, demonstrating that in the 2020-21 financial year, which was, of course, the extraordinary COVID year, the Welsh Government did operate within the overall departmental expenditure limit budgetary control set by Treasury, but, unfortunately, we weren't offered a level of flexibility to move money from revenue into capital to help us manage that particular issue. And, as a result of that inflexibility, there was funding returned to the UK Government. But I think the most important point here to note is that the total underspend in 2020-21 by all UK Government departments was £25 billion, and that represents almost 6 per cent of the total provision made available to those departments in that year. All underspends by UK departments were returned to HM Treasury and, actually, the Department of Health and Social Care alone underspent by over 9 per cent, and that department alone returned £18.6 billion to Treasury. A Barnett share of that would have amounted to around £1 billion for Wales, and I think that that partly is behind the reason that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has been so unwilling to offer us a level of flexibility. That's one of the issues that we have, of course: we need a much more settled way of dealing with these year-end issues, because relying on the flexibility, or otherwise, of whoever happens to be the CST at that point isn't an appropriate way to go forward. So, just to finish this particular point, the overall underspend for Wales in that extraordinary year was only 1 per cent of the available resources, and I think that demonstrates the effectiveness with which our resources were managed during the extremely challenging circumstances. And it does continue the Welsh Government's record of being amongst the best UK Government departments, as they would see us, in Treasury terms, and devolved Governments in terms of utilising our budgets. So, I'm grateful to have the opportunity to put that on record. I'm happy to share that letter that I sent to the Finance Committee with all colleagues, perhaps, by putting it in the Library, Llywydd. On the point of reserves, at the final budget agreed in March 2022, the unallocated DEL stood at £100 million revenue and an overprogrammed capital budget of £76 million. In the first supplementary budget, then, which was quoted in the exchange with the health Minister, the unallocated DEL was £152 million, and that was largely as a result of consequentials from the UK Government's spring statement and main estimates, and the overprogrammed capital position reduced to £68 million following a reduction in spending forecasts, but then that was offset again by the £30 million contribution in relation to Ukraine. Since then, of course, we've seen the cost-of-living crisis very much take hold, so I don't think it's appropriate to give a running total of where we are in terms of pressures across Government and where we have the ability to respond to that within the reserve, just because that situation literally changes on a day-to-day basis. So, I have monthly monitoring reports from every colleague across Government, setting out where they are overspending and underspending against various items; I then discuss those with officials and we consider what appropriate mechanisms we have to respond to that to mean that we can bring the budget in where it needs to be at the end of the year. That situation does change all of the time, but what I will say is that the funding that we have available at the moment in reserves does not, by any stretch of the imagination, meet the pressures that we see across Government, which I think was what the health Minister was trying to convey in that exchange.
Welsh: Rwy'n fwy na pharod i egluro'r sefyllfa ar y ddau fater hynny, ac rwy'n ddiolchgar am y cyfle i wneud hynny, yn enwedig mewn perthynas â'r cwestiwn cyntaf. Ar 5 Awst, ysgrifennais at y Pwyllgor Cyllid, ac ers hynny, mae'r llythyr hefyd wedi'i rannu â'r Pwyllgor Cyfrifon Cyhoeddus a Gweinyddiaeth Gyhoeddus, sy'n dangos, ym mlwyddyn ariannol 2020-21, sef blwyddyn anghyffredin COVID wrth gwrs, fod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi gweithredu o fewn rheolaeth gyllidebol y terfyn gwariant adrannol cyffredinol a osodwyd gan y Trysorlys, ond yn anffodus, ni chynigiwyd lefel o hyblygrwydd inni symud arian o refeniw i gyfalaf i'n helpu i fynd i'r afael â'r mater penodol hwnnw. Ac o ganlyniad i'r anhyblygrwydd hwnnw, rhoddwyd rhywfaint o gyllid yn ôl i Lywodraeth y DU. Ond credaf mai'r pwynt pwysicaf i'w nodi yma yw bod cyfanswm y tanwariant yn 2020-21 gan holl adrannau Llywodraeth y DU yn £25 biliwn, ac mae hynny'n cynrychioli bron i 6 y cant o gyfanswm y ddarpariaeth a ryddhawyd i'r adrannau hynny yn y flwyddyn honno. Rhoddwyd yr holl danwariant gan adrannau'r DU yn ôl i Drysorlys EM, ac mewn gwirionedd, cafwyd tanwariant o dros 9 y cant gan yr Adran Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol yn unig, a rhoddodd yr adran honno yn unig £18.6 biliwn yn ôl i'r Trysorlys. Byddai cyfran Barnett o hwnnw'n gyfanswm o oddeutu £1 biliwn i Gymru, a chredaf fod hynny'n rhan o'r rheswm pam fod Prif Ysgrifennydd y Trysorlys wedi bod mor amharod i gynnig lefel o hyblygrwydd i ni. Dyna un o'r problemau sydd gennym, wrth gwrs: mae angen ffordd lawer mwy sefydlog o ymdrin â'r materion hyn ar ddiwedd y flwyddyn, gan nad yw dibynnu ar hyblygrwydd, neu fel arall, pwy bynnag sy'n digwydd bod yn Brif Ysgrifennydd y Trysorlys ar y pryd yn ffordd briodol o fynd yn ein blaenau. Felly, i orffen y pwynt penodol hwn, roedd tanwariant cyffredinol Cymru yn y flwyddyn eithriadol honno yn 1 y cant yn unig o'r adnoddau a oedd ar gael, a chredaf fod hynny'n dangos pa mor effeithiol y rheolwyd ein hadnoddau yn yr amgylchiadau hynod heriol hynny. Ac mae'n parhau â record Llywodraeth Cymru o fod ymhlith adrannau gorau Llywodraeth y DU, fel y byddent yn ein hystyried, yn nhermau'r Trysorlys, ac ymhlith Llywodraethau datganoledig o ran defnyddio ein cyllidebau. Felly, rwy'n ddiolchgar am y cyfle i gofnodi hynny. Rwy'n fwy na pharod i rannu'r llythyr a anfonais at y Pwyllgor Cyllid gyda'r holl gyd-Aelodau, efallai, drwy ei roi yn y Llyfrgell, Lywydd. Ar gronfeydd wrth gefn, yn y gyllideb derfynol y cytunwyd arni ym mis Mawrth 2022, roedd y terfyn gwariant adrannol heb ei ddyrannu yn £100 miliwn o refeniw a chyllideb gyfalaf wedi'i gor-raglennu o £76 miliwn. Yn y gyllideb atodol gyntaf, felly, a ddyfynnwyd yn y drafodaeth gyda'r Gweinidog iechyd, roedd y terfyn gwariant adrannol heb ei ddyrannu yn £152 miliwn, ac roedd hynny'n bennaf o ganlyniad i gyllid canlyniadol o brif amcangyfrifon a datganiad gwanwyn Llywodraeth y DU, a gostyngodd swm y cyfalaf a oedd wedi'i or-raglennu i £68 miliwn yn dilyn gostyngiad mewn rhagolygon gwariant, ond gwrthbwyswyd hynny unwaith eto gan y cyfraniad o £30 miliwn mewn perthynas ag Wcráin. Ers hynny, wrth gwrs, rydym wedi gweld yr argyfwng costau byw yn cydio, felly ni chredaf ei bod yn briodol rhoi cyfanswm parhaus o ble rydym arni o ran pwysau ar draws y Llywodraeth a lle mae gennym y gallu i ymateb i hynny o fewn y gronfa wrth gefn, gan fod y sefyllfa honno'n llythrennol yn newid o ddydd i ddydd. Felly, rwy'n cael adroddiadau monitro misol gan gyd-Weinidogion ar draws y Llywodraeth, yn nodi lle maent yn gorwario ac yn tanwario yn erbyn eitemau amrywiol; rwyf wedyn yn trafod y rheini gyda swyddogion, ac rydym yn ystyried pa fecanweithiau priodol sydd gennym i ymateb i hynny fel y gallwn sicrhau bod y gyllideb yn y sefyllfa y mae angen iddi fod ar ddiwedd y flwyddyn. Mae'r sefyllfa honno'n newid drwy'r amser, ond yr hyn a ddywedaf yw nad yw'r cyllid sydd ar gael gennym ar hyn o bryd yn y cronfeydd wrth gefn yn ddigon, o bell ffordd, i ddiwallu'r pwysau a welwn ar draws y Llywodraeth, sef yr hyn roedd y Gweinidog iechyd yn ceisio'i gyfleu, rwy'n credu, yn y drafodaeth honno.