There are very considerable benefits to the codification programme, and I don’t hesitate, as I’ve said in this Chamber, to identify the fact that it couldn’t come at a more difficult time—at a time when we have all the demands on resources, legal resources, around the issues of Brexit, issues around the great repeal Bill and all the demands that will be made there, and at a time when financial resources are very strictly limited. That having been said, it is very important, I think, to the business community, for example, that we have a codification of planning law, and of course, there is significant work that is already under way with the Law Commission in that respect.

I think we will also need to look at our own procedures in respect of codification, and possibly legislation, because starting the codification route is not something you can dip in and out of. It has to be a consistent approach, because what we are doing is simplifying and codifying Welsh law, and Welsh law that will be growing and will undoubtedly be leading towards the issue of a jurisdiction. Of very considerable importance to me is not only the simplification and the advantages that will exist in respect of business for that particular purpose, but to look very closely at the issue of access to law, and that is that people have access to the law, that people can understand that law, and that, as far as possible, there is advice and representation available for people to actually take up their rights in law. These are areas that are very, very difficult. Some areas are not devolved areas, but this is a new road for us to go down as we create a new legislative framework. I have a number of meetings that are planned in respect of this process, and I look forward to reporting in much more detail on the progress that we are making as it arises.