Climate Change Bill [HL]

My Lords, what I said, as I said in a previous debate, is that if we pushed these decisions, the climate change committee would have an almost executive function. The Government’s only role then would be to put those decisions to Parliament, not to take advice or, if you like, to offer the Government’s view. That would not be good enough. We are saying that these decisions have to be taken by Ministers and then brought to Parliament for its approval. That is why I say that politicisation of these decisions—I promised not to use the P word again, so I won’t—and the practical implications for business and how we live, work and play ought to be dealt with in the democratic forum. That was my point about the politicisation: I did not mean it in a party political sense, but that the democratic process and decision-making forum is here and in the place down the corridor, not in the climate change committee. It will adjudicate on those issues in order to give its advice, but the decisions will have to be made in Parliament.