Climate Change Bill [HL]

While I accept much of the argument that the Minister is making, we are talking about all-round action by government. Yet we are also talking about an independent body that has to have its own expertise to decide its policy. Within the debate on this part of the Bill, which is on the committee’s expertise, I do not see that the responsibilities of the Government and government departments are relevant here—although they might be embedded—because it is not up to people in those departments to influence the climate change committee. It is up to the committee itself to fulfil that function.