English: Investment across the United Kingdom is tipped towards London and the south-east in the way that he described. Because this is a relatively very recent development, I will write to him if I've got anything further to say. But my officials have been in contact with the Treasury today. They say, in relation to Crossrail, as I understand it, these things: first of all, that no additional funding has yet been committed to the Department for Transport as a result of the Crossrail developments, and at the moment the Treasury regard that simply as a pressure that the Department for Transport's budget has to manage. We then checked with them, if a further investment from the Treasury to the Department for Transport were to be made for Crossrail, would there be a Barnett consequential for that, and they said to us, 'Yes, there would be', because this is a local rail development, and, if there are to be new funds found for Crossrail and given to the Department for Transport, we would get our Barnett consequential for that through the fiscal framework, which I'll remind Members here of course means we would get 105 per cent of that consequential. Now, I have seen too often the way in which the UK Government looks to find Barnett workarounds, so that things that at first glance you would imagine would attract a Barnett consequential, turn out not to. So, you can be sure that our officials will be very closely monitoring the situation, and, if money does become available for Crossrail and if that money does go to the Department for Transport, that we would get our proper share of that here in Wales.
Welsh: Mae buddsoddiad ledled y Deyrnas Unedig yn gwyro tuag at Lundain a de-ddwyrain Lloegr yn y ffordd y disgrifiodd. Am fod hwn yn ddatblygiad cymharol ddiweddar, byddaf yn ysgrifennu ato os bydd gennyf unrhyw beth arall i'w ddweud. Ond mae fy swyddogion wedi bod mewn cysylltiad â'r Trysorlys heddiw. Mewn perthynas â Crossrail, yn ôl yr hyn a ddeallaf, maent yn dweud hyn: yn gyntaf oll, nad oes unrhyw arian ychwanegol wedi'i addo i'r Adran Drafnidiaeth o ganlyniad i ddatblygiadau Crossrail, ac ar hyn o bryd, mae'r Trysorlys yn ystyried hynny'n bwysau y mae'n rhaid i gyllideb yr Adran Drafnidiaeth ymdopi ag ef. Wedyn, fe ofynasom iddynt, pe bai'r Trysorlys yn gwneud buddsoddiad pellach yn yr Adran Drafnidiaeth ar gyfer Crossrail, a fyddai hynny'n arwain at gyllid canlyniadol Barnett, a dywedasant wrthym, 'Byddai', gan fod hwn yn ddatblygiad rheilffyrdd lleol, a phe bai'r Adran Drafnidiaeth yn cael arian newydd ar gyfer Crossrail, byddem yn cael ein cyllid canlyniadol Barnett am hynny drwy'r fframwaith cyllidol, ac fe atgoffaf yr Aelodau yma fod hynny, wrth gwrs, yn golygu y byddem yn cael 105 y cant o'r cyllid canlyniadol hwnnw. Nawr, yn rhy aml o lawer, rwyf wedi gweld y ffordd y mae Llywodraeth y DU yn ceisio dod o hyd i ffyrdd o osgoi cyllid Barnett, fel nad yw pethau y byddech yn ystyried ar yr olwg gyntaf y byddent yn denu cyllid canlyniadol Barnett yn gwneud hynny yn y pen draw. Felly, gallwch fod yn sicr y bydd ein swyddogion yn monitro'r sefyllfa'n agos iawn, ac, os daw arian ar gael ar gyfer Crossrail ac os yw'r arian hwnnw'n mynd i'r Adran Drafnidiaeth, y byddem yn cael ein cyfran deg ohono yma yng Nghymru.