Climate Change Bill [HL]

I say to my noble friend that the committee’s advice on the budget will be based on, for example, a certain level of emissions savings coming from the traded sector, for which an absolute emissions cap can be set, and a certain level of emissions savings from the non-traded sector. I hope that I again made the distinction in my initial remarks between the committee’s role in providing overall analysis and the Government’s role in deciding on the precise policy mix to take advantage of the potential to reduce emissions. It must be for the Government to make the decision on the right mix of policies for setting caps for emissions trading schemes and for other policy measures as well. We do not want the committee to duplicate effort or to go into the detail of what the Government’s policy should be on individual issues, such as whether a policy on renewable heat needs to be different, as that would dilute the committee’s core function, on which we want it to concentrate, which is to advise on the level of the carbon budget as a whole.