Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if the Law Commission will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the law on chancel repair liability as it applies to Wales as part of its Thirteenth Programme of Law Reform project on registered land and chancel repair liability.

Under its Thirteenth Programme, the Law Commission is to consider the legal status of chancel repair liability in England and Wales where that liability is not evident from the land register.

The Law Commission is not considering the wider question of whether chancel repair liability should be abolished and the Government has no plans to make a further assessment of the need for reform of the law in this area.