English: Great, thank you for those questions. You're right that this is significant spend within Wales. It's around £7 billion that's spent through the Welsh public sector every year on procurement, and in Wales we have 267,000 businesses, of which 99.4 per cent are small and medium-sized enterprises. So, huge opportunities for us to be supporting these businesses. Our business support agencies in Wales, such as Business Wales and Sell2Wales, are there to help SMEs adapt to and meet the special requirements of the public sector, and also changes in procurement - because of the large amount of reform that we have at the moment, they need to be actively engaged to help them win more contracts. So, one of the things that we are doing is looking very much at our digital systems, and we have a digital action plan for procurement that is now in its delivery phase. One of those important strands of work is to upgrade the Sell2Wales system to support the open contracting data standard work that I've mentioned previously in response to another colleague, and to improve transparency. And I think that that will be important in terms of helping small and medium-sized enterprises engage better, because I think that there's work for both sides, really - there's work for the public sector to do to be more accessible and make its systems easier to navigate, but also work for the private sector to do, then, in terms of engaging. And I mentioned the public policy notices previously, and one of them, which looks at small and medium-sized enterprises, does give advice to Welsh local government and other contracting authorities in terms of what they can do to help engage more small and medium-sized enterprises. Examples of the advice include cutting down on admin that is needed to tender, simplifying documents, providing very clear briefs that identify all of the requirements and using plain language. You'd think that would be a given, but, actually, procurement is so complex that if it could be broken down for businesses that perhaps haven't navigated public sector procurement before, I think that that will make a difference. And then we also recommend adopting e-procurement tools, so those would be including, but not limited to, e-sourcing, dynamic purchasing systems, e-auctions, e-invoicing, electronic catalogues and purchase cards, and then packaging large contracts into separate elements to make use of regional lots, if that's possible and appropriate, to ensure that SMEs aren't excluded from contracting. And then we also ask that potential SME suppliers are given the opportunity to discuss in person procurement in order to understand if they are suitable for that particular lot. So, I think that there's good advice that we've provided recently in our new procurement notes, but I'm very happy to have further discussions with the WLGA as to what more we can do in this space to support them to procure locally.
Welsh: Gwych, diolch am y cwestiynau yna. Rydych chi'n iawn i ddweud bod hwn yn wariant sylweddol yng Nghymru. Bydd tua £7 biliwn yn cael ei wario drwy sector cyhoeddus Cymru bob blwyddyn ar gaffael, ac mae gennym ni 267,000 o fusnesau yng Nghymru, a busnesau bach a chanolig eu maint yw 99.4 y cant ohonyn nhw. Felly, fe geir cyfleoedd enfawr wrth i ni gefnogi'r busnesau hyn. Mae ein hasiantaethau cymorth busnes yng Nghymru, fel Busnes Cymru a GwerthwchiGymru, ar gael i helpu busnesau bach a chanolig i addasu i ofynion arbennig y sector cyhoeddus a'u hateb nhw, a newidiadau mewn caffael hefyd - oherwydd y diwygiadau mawr sydd gennym ni ar hyn o bryd, mae angen iddyn nhw fod â rhan weithredol i'w helpu nhw i ennill mwy o gontractau. Felly, un o'r pethau yr ydym ni'n eu gwneud yw edrych yn fanwl iawn ar ein systemau digidol ni, ac mae gennym ni gynllun gweithredu digidol ar gyfer caffael sydd ar ei gam cyflawni nawr. Un o'r meysydd pwysig hynny o waith yw uwchraddio system GwerthwchiGymru i gefnogi'r gwaith contractio agored data safonol a soniais i amdano o'r blaen mewn ymateb i gydweithiwr arall, a gwella tryloywder. Ac rwy'n credu y bydd hynny'n bwysig o ran helpu busnesau bach a chanolig i ymgysylltu yn well, oherwydd rwy'n credu bod gwaith i'r ddwy ochr yn hyn, mewn gwirionedd - fe geir gwaith i'r sector cyhoeddus ei wneud ar gyfer bod yn fwy hygyrch a gwneud ei systemau yn haws i'w defnyddio, ond fe geir gwaith i'r sector preifat hefyd, wedyn, o ran ymgysylltu. Ac fe soniais i am yr hysbysiadau polisi cyhoeddus o'r blaen, ac mae un ohonyn nhw, sy'n ystyried busnesau bach a chanolig eu maint, yn rhoi cyngor i lywodraeth leol yng Nghymru ac awdurdodau contractio eraill o ran yr hyn y gallan nhw ei wneud i helpu i ymgysylltu â mwy o fusnesau bach a chanolig eu maint. Mae enghreifftiau o'r cyngor yn cynnwys lleihau'r gwaith gweinyddol sydd ei angen ar gyfer tendro, a symleiddio dogfennau, a darparu briffiau clir iawn sy'n nodi'r holl ofynion ac yn defnyddio iaith ddealladwy. Fe fyddech chi'n credu y byddai hynny'n digwydd beth bynnag, ond, mewn gwirionedd, mae caffael mor gymhleth, pe gellid ei symleiddio ar gyfer busnesau nad ydyn nhw wedi ymgyfarwyddo â chaffael yn y sector cyhoeddus o'r blaen, rwy'n credu y byddai hynny'n gwneud gwahaniaeth. Ac yna rydym ni'n argymell mabwysiadu meddalwedd ar gyfer caffael, felly fe fyddai agweddau ar hynny'n cynnwys, ond heb fod yn gyfyngedig i, eGyrchu, systemau prynu deinamig, eOcsiynau, anfonebu electronig, catalogau a chardiau prynu electronig, a phecynnu contractau mawr wedyn yn elfennau ar wahân i wneud defnydd o lotiau rhanbarthol, os yw hynny'n bosibl ac yn briodol, i sicrhau nad yw busnesau bach a chanolig yn cael eu hatal rhag contractio. Ac yna rydym ni'n gofyn hefyd i ddarpar gyflenwyr BBaChau gael cyfle i drafod caffael wyneb yn wyneb er mwyn iddyn nhw gael deall a ydyn nhw'n addas ar gyfer y lot arbennig honno. Felly, rwyf i o'r farn fod cyngor da ar gael gennym ni'n ddiweddar yn ein nodiadau newydd o ran caffael, ond fe fyddaf i'n hapus iawn i gael trafodaethau pellach gyda Chymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru ynghylch beth allem ni fod yn gallu ei wneud yn y cyswllt hwn i'w cefnogi i gaffael yn lleol.