Climate Change Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 10: 10: Clause 3, page 2, line 33, after second ““the”” insert ““Advisory”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, I will speak to Amendment No. 10 and, with it, consider Amendment No. 11. I have been enormously impressed and persuaded by my noble friend Lord Rooker on this issue. Although he gave no undertaking in Committee, I think that he was sympathetic to what I was proposing. He said that the committee, "““is an advisory committee … but I remember that when ACAS was set up it was not called ACAS—I was on the Standing Committee in the other place—and the ““A”” was added during the course of the legislation. The suggestion made by my noble friend is welcome, but I cannot comment on it today””.—[Official Report, 14/1/08; col. 1070.]" I made inquiries earlier, on this occasion, and I understand that my noble friend is likely to say that the advisory committee has wider functions and cannot be confined simply to being an advisory committee. Yet, if I may remind him of it, ACAS also has wider considerations. While I am not prepared to go to the wall on this issue at present, the Government should think again about it for the reasons given in Committee. I stress, then, that the word ““advisory”” is all-important. I beg to move.