Ym mis Chwefror 2011, ysgrifennais at Chris Grayling, Gweinidog Llywodraeth y DU dros Gyflogaeth ynghylch effaith bosibl polisi amodoldeb sgiliau yr Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau o ran y ddarpariaeth sy’n cael ei hariannu gan Lywodraeth Cymru. Yn yr ohebiaeth ddilynol dros gyfnod estynedig, yn fwyaf diweddar ym mis Ebrill eleni, rwyf wedi parhau i fynegi pryderon ynghylch polisi yr Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau o geisio gorfodi pobl ddi-waith i ddysgu, trwy fygwth cosbau o ran eu budd-dal.  Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn parhau’n amheus o’r dull hwn o weithredu, ac rwyf wedi gofyn dro ar ôl tro i Lywodraeth y DU roi gwerthusiad o’i gweithgarwch yn Lloegr cyn penderfynu a ddylid cefnogi gweithredu’r polisi yng Nghymru.
In February 2011, I wrote to Chris Grayling, UK Government Minister for Employment about the potential impact of the DWP’s skills conditionality policy in relation to Welsh Government funded provision. In subsequent correspondence over an extended period, most recently in April this year, I have continued to express concern about DWP’s policy of trying to enforce unemployed people to learn through the threat of benefit sanctions. The Welsh Government is yet to be convinced by this approach and I have consistently requested that the UK Government provide evaluation of their activity in England before deciding whether to support the implementation of the policy in Wales.