Climate Change Bill [HL]

I agree that the Joint Committee’s report was as read to the Committee by the Minister. However, paragraph 5(3) applies to more than just the possibility of allocating by auctioning. It is entirely likely that different trading schemes would require careful thought about how to allocate any quotas, as it were, and that is likely to be different for each scheme. To put it crudely: without involving the question of auctioning, how are we to determine who gets how much? I should have thought that the basis for deciding those principles of allocation would come under paragraph 5(3). I agree that the Joint Committee addressed that matter in considering the issue of auctioning, but I hope my noble friend will agree that paragraph 5(3) would apply to much more than just the question of whether or not to auction.