Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd, and thanks to all those Members who have recognised the importance of bringing forward this supplementary budget.

Rwy’n cydnabod beth roedd Adam Price yn ei ddweud am y balans rhwng y prif gyllideb a’r gyllideb atodol, ond, fel dywedodd Simon Thomas, mae’n rhan o gylch y ffordd rydym ni’n gwneud pethau, a, thrwy weld beth rydym ni’n ei ddweud yn y gyllideb atodol, mae’r Pwyllgor Cyllid yn gallu paratoi’r tir am y gwaith y maen nhw’n mynd i’w wneud yn yr hydref ar y gyllideb lawn.

I just picked up a couple of points that were made, specifically about the budget. Nick Ramsay mentioned the £20 million for the Cardiff capital city deal. It’s a good example of what the supplementary budget can do. Once the arrangements were in place to oversee the deal, it unlocked the door to the money that comes from the UK Government in this case. It’s £10 million in the last financial year, it’s £10 million in this financial year, and it’s the UK Government’s part of the deal that has been unlocked by those arrangements, and which we report here. Mike Hedges pointed to the fact that the single greatest beneficiary in terms of Welsh Government investment in the supplementary budget is the £20 million being provided for social services, and I felt it was right to use the social services component of the local government formula to distribute that money, because it is for those social care purposes.

We will no doubt pick up those wider conversations about investment in health and other pressures on the Welsh Government’s budget when we come to the scrutiny of the draft budget in the autumn. The background to that, Llywydd, remains deeply uncertain. In recent conversations with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I continued to press the case for an end to the programme of austerity in the United Kingdom, but, to date, this policy remains firmly in place. Although this supplementary budget puts in place a strong foundation for the current year, until there is a change of course by the UK Government, there is no doubt at all that more difficult budgetary decisions lie ahead. I move the motion.