Climate Change Bill [HL]

That is a very interesting and informative response. In order to give its advice on the trading sectors as a whole, as opposed to the non-trading sectors, the committee and its back-room staff would have to form a view about the way in which the overall trading sectors broke down. Surely the credibility of the advice it gave would depend on the support it gave by indicating the kind of areas that it would expect to come about over the next five to fifteen years. I understand entirely the slight dilemma that that would create for a Government faced by the breakdown provided by the Climate Change Committee. After all, the breakdown is only advice and indicative and the Government might not pursue it exactly in its policies. It is likely that the climate change committee’s overall budget projections would lack credibility in the eyes of both the public and the relevant key sectors if this were all subsumed under two very broad figures. I wonder if the Government have set their minds against this or whether it is something that the climate change committee may eventually be able to reflect on and discuss with the Government.