English: Well, Llywydd, I thank Ken Skates for that powerful additional question. Of course, he is right: in the spring statement tomorrow, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has an opportunity to do those practical things that would make the biggest difference in the lives of those people who need that help the most. My colleagues Jane Hutt and Julie James wrote, together, to the Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy back on 11 January, with six different practical actions that the UK Government could take that would lead immediately to relief for people who face the greatest challenge. But, Llywydd, Ken Skates has identified, to my mind, one of the most concerning sub-groups within that population: people who rely on prepayment meters for their energy supply. The latest figures that I have suggest that prepayment-meter users will be spending £10 every day to top up their meter. If you're a single person living on benefits, you have £77.29 for the whole of the week for absolutely everything. So, they will not be paying £10 a day, they will be going without. That is the only way that they will be able to manage. Their bills will be rising from £1,309 currently to £2,017 after April. And I'm afraid the answer to Ken Skates's question is that there are no figures kept of people who self-disconnect. For far too long, the energy companies have sheltered behind the comfortable fiction that people reliant on prepayment meters choose to disconnect, whereas we know perfectly well that it's the only way in which they are able to manage. And people face a very, very bleak winter in those circumstances. Llywydd, some years ago, when I was involved in some university research on this matter, I was involved with the Fire Brigades Union, which published a report into child death numbers - child deaths caused by people forced to self-disconnect because they couldn't feed the meter, who used candles in bedrooms, where curtains caught fire and children died. You know, that is the circumstances in which many families in Wales will find themselves again after next month. If there's anything more urgent on the Chancellor's table, it's hard to imagine what it could be than making sure there is proper help for families facing those very, very bleak choices.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, diolch i Ken Skates am y cwestiwn ychwanegol grymus yna. Wrth gwrs, mae'n iawn: yn natganiad y gwanwyn yfory, mae gan Ganghellor y Trysorlys gyfle i wneud y pethau ymarferol hynny a fyddai'n gwneud y gwahaniaeth mwyaf ym mywydau'r bobl hynny sydd angen y cymorth hwnnw fwyaf. Ysgrifennodd fy nghyd-Weinidogion Jane Hutt a Julie James, gyda'i gilydd, at yr Ysgrifennydd Gwladol yn yr Adran Busnes, Ynni a Strategaeth Ddiwydiannol yn ôl ar 11 Ionawr, gyda chwe gwahanol gam ymarferol y gallai Llywodraeth y DU eu cymryd a fyddai'n arwain ar unwaith at ryddhad i bobl sy'n wynebu'r her fwyaf. Ond, Llywydd, mae Ken Skates wedi nodi, yn fy marn i, un o'r is-grwpiau sy'n peri'r pryder mwyaf yn y boblogaeth honno: pobl sy'n dibynnu ar fesuryddion rhagdalu ar gyfer eu cyflenwad ynni. Mae'r ffigurau diweddaraf sydd gen i yn awgrymu y bydd defnyddwyr mesuryddion rhagdalu yn gwario £10 bob dydd i ychwanegu at eu mesurydd. Os ydych chi'n berson sengl sy'n byw ar fudd-daliadau, mae gennych chi £77.29 am yr wythnos gyfan ar gyfer popeth. Felly, ni fyddan nhw'n talu £10 y dydd, byddan nhw'n mynd hebddo. Dyna'r unig ffordd y byddan nhw'n gallu ymdopi. Bydd eu biliau yn codi o £1,309 ar hyn o bryd i £2,017 ar ôl mis Ebrill. Ac mae arnaf ofn mai'r ateb i gwestiwn Ken Skates yw nad oes ffigurau yn cael eu cadw ar bobl sy'n hunan-ddatgysylltu. Ers llawer rhy hir, mae'r cwmnïau ynni wedi cuddio y tu ôl i'r ffuglen gyfforddus bod pobl sy'n dibynnu ar fesuryddion rhagdalu yn dewis datgysylltu, ond rydym yn gwybod yn iawn mai dyma'r unig ffordd y gallan nhw ymdopi. Ac mae pobl yn wynebu gaeaf llwm dros ben o dan yr amgylchiadau hynny. Llywydd, rai blynyddoedd yn ôl, pan oeddwn i'n rhan o rywfaint o waith ymchwil prifysgol ar y mater hwn, roeddwn i'n ymwneud ag Undeb y Brigadau Tân, a gyhoeddodd adroddiad ar nifer y marwolaethau plant - marwolaethau plant a achoswyd gan bobl y gorfodwyd iddyn nhw hunan-ddatgysylltu gan na allen nhw fwydo'r mesurydd, a ddefnyddiodd ganhwyllau mewn ystafelloedd gwely, lle aeth llenni ar dân ac y bu farw plant. Wyddoch chi, dyna'r amgylchiadau y bydd llawer o deuluoedd yng Nghymru yn cael eu hunain ynddyn nhw eto ar ôl y mis nesaf. Os oes unrhyw beth mwy brys ar fwrdd y Canghellor, mae'n anodd dychmygu beth allai fod yn hytrach na gwneud yn siŵr bod cymorth priodol i deuluoedd sy'n wynebu'r dewisiadau llwm dros ben hynny.