My Lords, I thank the Minister for his understanding of the issues here and for trying to bring this information forward. It is to everyone's advantage if that can be done. I thank him for the briefing note that he sent round a couple of weeks ago, which I found most interesting. The difficulty on our side is that I, like many of us, are used to organisations saying that things cannot be done, and it is always difficult to evaluate that. I understand that the international reporting must be done within a certain time, but clearly there is nothing to stop it being done earlier than the date laid down under the international conventions. I fully accept the Minister’s good will and wish to get this right. The sole motivation behind the amendment is to seek to enable the Government to take policy decisions about the future in a suitable period of time. That is a weakness of the timescales, which we might be stuck with, but for the moment, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause 13 [Powers to carry amounts from one budgetary period to another]:
Climate Change Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Teverson
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 4 March 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Climate Change Bill [HL].
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