Llywydd, this is a process we have started here in Wales, and I'm proud to have today laid the first programme to improve the accessibility of modern Welsh law, as required by the Legislation (Wales) Act 2019. This programme commits the Government to bringing forward consolidation Bills and taking a number of other steps to make the law more easily available and understandable.

Work of this nature is common practice in many jurisdictions across the common law world. After inheriting English law, it has been normal practice in most Commonwealth countries to ensure that their legislation is well organised. This is done by not allowing Acts of Parliament to proliferate, as they have in the UK, and by keeping a structure to the statute book—something we are lacking. Llyfr Iorwerth provides a detailed account of the procedure for claiming land, and contains practical statements of the rules for compensation for cattle trespass and non-co-operative ploughing, both important issues in the Middle Ages.