Llywydd, this is indeed a landmark report. It gives us not just 78 specific recommendations, but a real treasure trove of testimony and advice, reflecting an enormous drawing together of evidence from more than 200 people and institutions orally, and similar numbers in writing. It shines a light into every aspect of our justice system.

Now, a report of this scale deserves far fuller consideration than it can be given today. But let me begin by identifying what seems to me to be the most striking conclusion of the report and then to say something about our approach to responding to it.