Parliamentary search - Climate Change Bill [HL]

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

696 c1123-214

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Climate Change Bill (HL). (Explanatory Notes HL Bill 9-EN published).
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Jay of Ewelme | 696 c1165-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome and support the Bill, which is timely, important and well conceived, if no...

Earl of Caithness | 696 c1167-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, had the immense privilege of serving on the Joint Committee under the able chairma...

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Lord Rooker | 696 c1169 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the committee has not been set up. There is a shadow secretariat. The committee will be ap...

Earl of Caithness | 696 c1169-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that, but the news of setting up the shadow secretariat ...

Lord Turnbull | 696 c1155-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, successive reports of the International Panel on Climate Change have increased our knowled...

Lord Crickhowell | 696 c1152-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I served on the Joint Committee on the draft Bill, which was ably chaired by the noble Lor...

Baroness Byford | 696 c1160-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Haskel, and to pick up on his last comment...

Lord Haskel | 696 c1157-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Bill demonstrates once again how right we were to introduce pre-legislative scrutiny ...

Lord Kimball | 696 c1164-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest in that I am the deputy chairman of the Countryside Alliance, which ...

Baroness Northover | 696 c1162-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, many experts have already spoken in this debate. Like them, I welcome the Bill. As spokesp...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 696 c1183 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government have not left out aviation and shipping altogether; they are saying that th...

Earl of Liverpool | 696 c1179-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in the Second Reading debate today because there is gr...

Lord Avebury | 696 c1181-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that the noble Earl is the first to have brought into our debate a mention of the ...

Lord Hunt of Chesterton | 696 c1173-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for that. I just comment that, in the appendix, Wales seems to hav...

Lord Puttnam | 696 c1173 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we discussed that issue at great length, and we were advised—I think rightly—that to go do...

Lord Hunt of Chesterton | 696 c1170-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is always a privilege to speak in this House after so many excellent speeches, many of ...

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 696 c1177-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to have an opportunity to contribute to this debate today. This Bill and the ...

Duke of Montrose | 696 c1176-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. It is always useful to go into these things i...

Lord Crickhowell | 696 c1176 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was not in any way accepting that the statutory instruments part of the Bill was the eff...

Duke of Montrose | 696 c1174-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Chesterton, who has such a ...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 696 c1195-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I entirely agree with the noble Lord, Lord Dixon-Smith, and his comments on photovoltaics,...

Lord Bradshaw | 696 c1197-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I came into your Lordships’ House, I was a member of two independent, non-departmen...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 696 c1190 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have read it. I have read it very carefully. I have read all the relevant information ab...

Lord Avebury | 696 c1190 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the evidence is available in UK Air Passenger Demand and CO2 Forecasts, which was publishe...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 696 c1193-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, a little less than four hours ago, the noble Lord, Lord Puttnam, and the right reverend Pr...

Lord Palmer | 696 c1190-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, parts of me welcome the Bill and parts of me do not, as I feel that there is a touch of th...

Baroness Billingham | 696 c1184-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his characteristically dynamic presentation of the Bill and also ...

Lord Avebury | 696 c1183-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree that there should be international agreement if possible, but, as I said, ICAO is ...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 696 c1188-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I largely depart from the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Vinson. This is rather a good Bi...

Lord Vinson | 696 c1186-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I take a rather different view. This is a missed opportunity of a Bill and a triumph of ho...

Lord Turner of Ecchinswell | 696 c1199-201 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest as an adviser to Climate Change Capital, which is a busin...

Lord Rooker | 696 c1208-14 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been an incredibly fascinating debate with so many speakers with such expertise. I ...

Earl Cathcart | 696 c1205-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to be speaking at the end of such an interesting debate. Climate change is ...

Lord Redesdale | 696 c1201-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too welcome the Bill. I do not go so far as the noble Baroness, Lady Billingham, and say...

Lord Oxburgh | 696 c1135-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the Government on the Bill, which is groundbreaking legislation. It is not ...

Lord Teverson | 696 c1132-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister, especially for somehow persuading the powers that be in the Go...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 696 c1127-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by thanking the Minister for introducing the Bill, for its Second Reading and for ...

Lord Rooker | 696 c1123-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. It is, I hope, common ground betwe...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 696 c1131 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord has said that aviation should not be excluded from the Bill. Is that the vi...

Baroness Uddin | 696 c1151-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his comment. I said, as the noble Lord would have heard, that I...

Lord Vinson | 696 c1151 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is not quite true to say that Bangladesh has made no contribution. One of the underlyin...

Baroness Uddin | 696 c1149-51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in this very important first for the United Kingdom and for...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 696 c1147-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I commend the Government for the Bill and support the proposals for statutory emissions re...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 696 c1145-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was a privilege to serve on the Joint Committee looking at the draft Bill and I am glad...

Lord Chartres | 696 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am particularly glad to follow the noble Lord, Lord Puttnam. Not only has he made a most...

Lord Waldegrave of North Hill | 696 c1143-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of London, whom sub...

Lord Oxburgh | 696 c1137 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, incineration is normally burning, while gasification is a quite different process. Inciner...

Lord Puttnam | 696 c1137-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that this is an important Bill, and it is to be welcomed is entirely self-evident and I am...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 696 c1137 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord speaks with great authority, but did I understand him to say that once we h...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 696 c1131-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is my view as spokesman for the Conservative Party from this Bench in the House of Lord...

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