Climate Change Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am happy to give that assurance as regards the noble Lord’s question but he expressed the matter the wrong way round. The concordat will follow the Bill. We are not drafting the Bill in order to write a concordat. We are legislating through the Bill—that is the key issue—with as much co-operation as possible from the devolved Administrations. At the end of that stage the concordat will be agreed, based on the Bill. As I say, it is not necessary to draft the Bill in order to write the concordat. That is the wrong way round. However, there must be sufficient information to provide as much transparency as possible and I am sure that is exactly what the Scottish Administration want.