English: The Member is absolutely right that it's all about implementing the plan. It's not just about designing a plan and publishing a plan, as the UK Government has found in its inability to implement a Brexit plan or indeed even get agreement for it. I am able to confirm to the Member that the economic contract is now in place and more than 100 businesses seeking financial support from the Welsh Government have signed the economic contract. In terms of refining the economic action plan, we're looking at how we can firstly extend the principles of the economic contract right across Government, including through procurement, but we're also looking at, as I think I've already made clear in previous committee appearances, how we can consolidate further funds into the economy futures fund. Dozens of awards have been made already through the economy futures fund. I think perhaps one of the highlights of the period between launch of the EAP and implementation has come just this week, when we were able to announce support for Thales to take forward the National Digital Exploitation Centre, which is of course an initiative that meets more than one of the calls to action. It focuses largely on the development of skills. It focuses on research and development, and it also focuses on innovation, demonstrating how the economic action plan is already making a big difference as we strive to increase the availability of high-skilled, well-paid work and as we drive forward the inclusive growth agenda. It's perhaps worth my saying as well that, in terms of the challenge opportunities that we're looking at considering soon, just before Christmas I shared a platform with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Greg Clark, in London at the Royal Society, where we both talked about the importance of place-based economic development and how the economic action plan can dovetail with the UK industrial strategy in a number of ways. One of the ways in which we discussed further collaboration or one of the avenues that we discussed in terms of further collaboration concerned the UK Government's grand challenges and the Welsh Government's challenge proposals from business. So, I think that a huge amount of work has already taken place in terms of implementing the economic action plan, through those dozens of awards, through the economy futures fund, and many jobs have been created. But, most importantly of all, we are now driving a very, very clear inclusive growth agenda through the implementation of the economic contract and through businesses so warmly welcoming it and signing up to that contract.
Welsh: Mae'r Aelod yn hollol iawn ei fod yn ymwneud â gweithredu'r cynllun. Mae'n ymwneud â mwy na dylunio cynllun a chyhoeddi cynllun yn unig, fel y gwelodd Llywodraeth y DU yn ei hanallu i weithredu cynllun Brexit na chael cytundeb iddo hyd yn oed. Gallaf gadarnhau i'r Aelod fod y contract economaidd bellach ar waith ac mae mwy na 100 o fusnesau sy'n ceisio cymorth ariannol gan Lywodraeth Cymru wedi llofnodi'r contract economaidd. O ran mireinio'r cynllun gweithredu economaidd, rydym yn edrych ar sut y gallwn yn gyntaf ymestyn egwyddorion y cytundeb economaidd ar draws y Llywodraeth, gan gynnwys drwy gaffael, ond rydym hefyd yn ystyried, fel y credaf imi ei ddweud eisoes mewn ymddangosiadau blaenorol gerbron y pwyllgor, sut y gallwn grynhoi cyllid pellach yng nghronfa dyfodol yr economi. Gwnaed dwsinau o ddyfarniadau eisoes drwy gronfa dyfodol yr economi. Credaf efallai ein bod wedi gweld un o uchafbwyntiau'r cyfnod rhwng lansio'r cynllun gweithredu economaidd a'i weithredu yr wythnos hon, pan fu modd inni gyhoeddi cymorth i Thales allu bwrw ymlaen â'r Ganolfan Datblygu Digidol Genedlaethol, sydd wrth gwrs yn fenter sy'n cyflawni mwy nag un o'r galwadau i weithredu. Mae'n canolbwyntio i raddau helaeth ar ddatblygu sgiliau. Mae'n canolbwyntio ar ymchwil a datblygu, ac mae hefyd yn canolbwyntio ar arloesi, gan ddangos sut y mae'r cynllun gweithredu economaidd eisoes yn gwneud gwahaniaeth mawr wrth inni ymdrechu i sicrhau bod mwy o waith medrus sy'n talu'n dda ar gael ac wrth inni fwrw ymlaen â'r agenda twf cynhwysol. Mae'n werth imi ddweud yn ogystal â hynny, o ran y cyfleoedd heriol y byddwn yn eu hystyried cyn bo hir, ychydig cyn y Nadolig rhennais lwyfan gyda'r Ysgrifennydd Gwladol dros Fusnes, Ynni a Strategaeth Ddiwydiannol, Greg Clark, yn Llundain yn y Gymdeithas Frenhinol, lle y bu'r ddau ohonom yn siarad am bwysigrwydd datblygu economaidd sy'n seiliedig ar le a sut y gall y cynllun gweithredu economaidd gydweddu â strategaeth ddiwydiannol y DU mewn nifer o ffyrdd. Roedd un o'r ffyrdd y buom yn trafod cydweithredu pellach, neu un o'r llwybrau y buom yn eu trafod o ran cydweithredu pellach yn ymwneud â heriau mawr Llywodraeth y DU a chynigion heriau Llywodraeth Cymru gan fusnesau. Felly, credaf fod llawer iawn o waith wedi digwydd eisoes o ran gweithredu'r cynllun gweithredu economaidd, drwy'r dwsinau o ddyfarniadau hyn, drwy gronfa dyfodol yr economi, ac mae llawer o swyddi wedi'u creu. Ond yn bwysicaf oll, rydym bellach yn sbarduno agenda twf cynhwysol eglur iawn drwy weithredu'r contract economaidd a thrwy fod busnesau'n rhoi croeso mor gynnes iddo ac yn dod yn rhan o'r contract hwnnw.