Climate Change Bill [HL]

I, too, support this entire suite of amendments, which I think are rather more important than they appear. They go to the heart of several things. On page 29 of the Joint Committee report, Professor Sir David King told us that: "““Each sector needs to know where it is expected to go and that justifies private investment funds going into these sectors””." More interestingly, many of the witnesses we talked to were stunned that sectoral targets would not be made available. They saw it as fundamental to the whole process of accountability. I also had the good fortune to talk to a previous Cabinet Secretary who made it clear that the machinery of government itself would require that such sectoral targets existed within government. I would have thought that we had now reached a stage of maturity in our democracy where, if such sectoral targets exist within government, they have no reason whatever not to be made available, certainly to the Committee on Climate Change and through that committee on an annual basis to Parliament. On that basis alone, I support this suite of amendments.