Climate Change Bill [HL]

I certainly hope not, as it is not intended to be either a job creation scheme for civil servants or overly onerous on business. Indeed, I am assuming—falling back now to our position on the early part of the Bill—that when we have the great and the good appointed to the committee, it will look at issues such as this. We have spent hours on this; it is now our sixth day in Committee. That is no criticism, because I want to be able to tell the noble Earl that he ought to be able to rest assured that this is not intended to increase bureaucracy, although there will be an increase. This is a new enterprise of looking at what we are doing to tackle climate change. It will create new industries and businesses, some of which will probably go to the wall, as there will be winners and losers. However, it is far from being a job creation exercise for Whitehall civil servants.