Diben y Datganiad hwn yw gwneud cyhoeddiad pwysig am Gronfa Buddsoddi Cymru mewn Adfywio (RIFW). Mae’r Datganiad yn adlewyrchu’r cydweithio agos sydd wedi digwydd rhwng fy adran i a Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru ers i Huw Lewis wneud ei Ddatganiad ef i’r Aelodau ar 7 Chwefror 2013. Bryd hynny, cadarnhaodd Huw Lewis bod gweithgareddau buddsoddi’r Gronfa wedi’u hatal dros dro ym mis Hydref 2012 yn dilyn cyhoeddiad Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru eu bod yn parhau i ymchwilio’n ehangach i werth am arian rhai agweddau ar fusnes y Gronfa. Roedd Datganiad mis Chwefror yn cyfeirio hefyd at ddau adolygiad y byddai Llywodraeth Cymru’n eu comisiynu i ategu ymchwiliad y Swyddfa Archwilio – y naill yn edrych ar drefniadau llywodraethu’r Gronfa a’r llall yn edrych ar y cyngor proffesiynol a dderbyniwyd gan y Gronfa yn ystod y broses o werthu’r asedau tir a gyflwynwyd yn eiddo iddi yn wreiddiol. Y nod, wrth gomisiynu’r ddau adolygiad, oedd cynhyrchu tystiolaeth ynghylch priodoldeb codi’r gwaharddiad ar weithgareddau’r Gronfa.
The purpose of this Statement is to make an important announcement about the Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales (RIFW).  The Statement reflects work undertaken by my department working closely with the Wales Audit Office since Huw Lewis’ Statement to Members on 7 February 2013.  In that announcement Huw Lewis confirmed that the temporary pause that had been placed on the Fund’s investment activities in October 2012, following the announcement by the Wales Audit Office (WAO) that it was widening its value for money investigation into certain aspects of the Fund’s business, would continue.  The Statement in February also referred to two reviews to be commissioned by the Welsh Government and intended to complement the Wales Audit Office study.  One review looked at the Fund’s governance arrangements and the other was to examine the professional advice received by the Fund during the process by which the land assets originally vested in the Fund had been sold.  Both reviews were intended to generate evidence as to whether it would be appropriate for the pause on the Fund’s activities to be lifted.