English: I welcome the honesty in the statement that child poverty has risen and is projected to continue to rise. It's definitely the case that the social security cuts and wider austerity agenda of the Tories has been a big factor in this. There's no doubt about that. However, the Minister will also be aware that research by Loughborough University has singled out Wales as the only nation experiencing a rise in child poverty in recent years. We don't accept that the Welsh Government has done all that it can. Indeed, there have been examples where the Welsh Government has made proposals that would have made things worse had they been implemented: the proposal to cut the school uniform grant; the reduced threshold for free school meals. Wales, of course, was the only country not to retain the family fund in its previous format, which saw thousands of families with disabled children lose out. We can also point to the many committee reports that have made serious and significant recommendations for the Welsh Government to make things better. But, I don't really want to dwell on all of this. Instead, I have a number of questions, looking to the future. Given that many of the welfare cuts were started under Labour in Westminster when Tony Blair gave Lord Freud his first ministerial job, do you accept that you need to have administrative control over welfare if you are to seriously tackle the dishonesty of the Department for Work and Pensions when it comes to the assessments of disabled people, and to end the dishing out of sanctions like confetti? Do you accept that you need to have a strategy for tackling and eliminating child poverty that includes smart targets and named responsibility for each action? And finally, do you think that you need to copy some of the legislation in Scotland and enshrine duties to tackle poverty and child poverty in law - duties that should be extended throughout the public sector and could, for example, be used to prevent schools demanding expensive clothes exclusively as uniform requirements, which is, I'm sure you would agree, scandalous?
Welsh: Croesawaf y gonestrwydd yn y datganiad fod tlodi plant wedi cynyddu ac y rhagwelir y bydd yn parhau i gynyddu. Mae'n bendant yn wir y bu toriadau nawdd cymdeithasol ac agenda cyni ehangach y Torïaid yn ffactor mawr yn hyn. Does dim amheuaeth am hynny. Fodd bynnag, bydd y Gweinidog hefyd yn ymwybodol bod ymchwil gan Brifysgol Loughborough wedi canfod mai Cymru yw'r unig wlad sydd wedi gweld cynnydd mewn tlodi plant yn y blynyddoedd diwethaf. Nid ydym ni'n derbyn bod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi gwneud popeth yn ei gallu. Yn wir, cafwyd enghreifftiau lle mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi gwneud cynigion a fyddai wedi gwneud pethau'n waeth petaent wedi'u gweithredu: y cynnig i dorri'r grant gwisg ysgol; gostwng y trothwy ar gyfer prydau ysgol am ddim. Cymru, wrth gwrs, oedd yr unig wlad i beidio â chadw'r gronfa deuluol ar ei ffurf flaenorol, a welodd miloedd o deuluoedd â phlant anabl ar eu colled. Gallwn hefyd gyfeirio at y nifer fawr o adroddiadau pwyllgor sydd wedi gwneud argymhellion difrifol ac arwyddocaol i Lywodraeth Cymru er mwyn gwella pethau. Ond, nid wyf mewn gwirionedd eisiau pendroni ar hyn i gyd. Yn lle hynny, mae gennyf nifer o gwestiynau, gan edrych i'r dyfodol. O gofio bod llawer o'r toriadau lles wedi'u dechrau o dan Lafur yn San Steffan pan roddodd Tony Blair ei swydd weinidogol gyntaf i'r Arglwydd Freud, a ydych chi'n derbyn bod angen ichi gael rheolaeth weinyddol dros les os ydych chi eisiau mynd i'r afael o ddifrif ag anonestrwydd yr Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau pan ddaw hi'n fater o asesu pobl anabl, ac i roi terfyn ar gyflwyno sancsiynau rif y gwlith? A ydych chi'n derbyn fod angen ichi gael strategaeth ar gyfer mynd i'r afael â thlodi plant a'i ddileu sy'n cynnwys targedau campus a chyfrifoldeb penodol am bob cam gweithredu? Ac yn olaf, a ydych chi'n credu fod angen i chi efelychu rhywfaint o'r ddeddfwriaeth yn yr Alban a chynnwys dyletswyddau i fynd i'r afael â thlodi a thlodi plant yn y gyfraith - dyletswyddau a ddylai gael eu hymestyn drwy'r sector cyhoeddus ac a allai, er enghraifft, gael eu defnyddio i atal ysgolion rhag mynnu dim ond dillad drud fel gofynion ar gyfer gwisg ysgol, sydd, rwy'n siŵr y byddech chi'n cytuno, yn warthus?