Climate Change Bill [HL]

All matters must come before Parliament for approval, as they do under regulations and statutory instruments to this day. Indeed, the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, has suggested that an ad hoc committee would constantly monitor the whole process of climate change and how the balance between the Government and the commission would actually operate. That is an effective role for Parliament. Government will need the authority of Parliament to bring in the fourth party to that equation—the people. It is as representatives of the people that they are party to this; it is in the name of the people that all of this is being done. The Government have, for reasons of their own, somewhat funked the issue. Although I accept that my representations on the name are symbolic rather than substantial, I wish to test the opinion of the Committee. On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 121) shall be agreed to? Their Lordships divided: Contents, 81; Not-Contents, 171. [Amendment No. 122 not moved.] Clause 26 agreed to. Schedule 1 [The Committee on Climate Change]: