Climate Change Bill [HL]

My Lords, why do I want to know? We want to know why all the legislation that comes to this House is as it is. We assume that there is a sensible, rational reason behind it. In order to pass legislation, we should know what that reason is. The Minister referred to the ““full intellectual might”” of pretty well everyone in the country—I thought that he was going to list the chancellor of Oxford University and goodness knows who else. People say that irony has gone out of fashion. I congratulate the Minister on his irony, which is better than mine. I think that his will come forward in Hansard better than mine normally does. If this Bill had not originated in this House, I think that we would have wanted to divide the House on this. It is silly and illogical, but it is so silly and illogical that the House of Commons perhaps will be able to do something with it. If someone of the Minister’s calibre—he is rightly thought to be one of the best Ministers in this House—