I hope, then, that you will welcome this important milestone in the development of devolved government in Wales. The draft Bill is intended—designed—to help make Welsh law fit for the future and will, I’m sure, become a foundation stone for the emerging Welsh legal jurisdiction. It is a draft Bill both of constitutional significance and practical importance to the people of Wales.

I invite Members to consider not only the draft Bill that is published today, but also the vision for the future that underpins it. And I encourage all interested parties from across Wales and further afield to help shape a Bill that will improve the way Welsh law works and, most fundamentally, will help all those affected by the law to find it and to understand it.