Parliamentary search - Climate Change Bill [HL]

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697 c1139-72

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2007-08

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Climate Change Bill (HL). (Explanatory Notes HL Bill 9-EN published).
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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Proceeding contributions

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | 697 c1149 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Billingham, has made a very serious point and this may be the first amendme...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c1147-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that response from the Minister, which is very satisfactory. I hope that we can lo...

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Baroness Billingham | 697 c1148-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 161: 161: Clause 30, page 15, line 39, at end insert— ““( ) advise the authori...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 697 c1147 (Link to this contribution) To be fair, this is an interesting amendment. When we looked at the analysis of the amendments, we t...

Lord Redesdale | 697 c1146-7 (Link to this contribution) I speak to Amendments Nos. 159 and 160, which are tabled in my name. The noble Lord, Lord Taylor, ha...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c1145-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 158A: 158A: Clause 28, page 15, line 13, leave out ““30th June”” and insert ““...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c1145 (Link to this contribution) I knew that we had taken our time for a purpose, which was to give the Minister a chance to prepare ...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1145 (Link to this contribution) I accept that. If I have misunderstood the noble Lord, I apologise. I realise that the Committee see...

Lord Crickhowell | 697 c1144 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that Clause 48 entirely meets the point that was made in this debate. That clause sta...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1144 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of embarrassing the noble Lord further—not that he should be embarrassed—I support what ...

Lord Crickhowell | 697 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) Not for the first time the structure of the Bill has got us into a bit of a tangle: an amendment has...

Lord Puttnam | 697 c1143 (Link to this contribution) I support the principle behind this amendment. It is particularly useful to see the noble Lord, Lord...

Earl of Selborne | 697 c1143 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 183B brings us to Part 4 of the Bill. We are discussing adaptation slightly out of con...

Lord Redesdale | 697 c1143-4 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for being a couple of minutes late. I want to raise, from Amendment No. 183B, the import...

Lord Teverson | 697 c1139-40 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak to Amendment No. 183B. We debated the role of the climate change committee at some len...

Baroness Young of Old Scone | 697 c1140-1 (Link to this contribution) I support Amendment No. 183B, which is tabled also in my name. The previous two contributors have al...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c1152 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may speak again as my contribution has been widely attacked. There are specific instances ...

Earl of Caithness | 697 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Billingham, is very eloquent; she was very eloquent in committee and she ha...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c1150 (Link to this contribution) What is it about an issue like this that makes normally eminently sensible people lose all reason? I...

Baroness Greengross | 697 c1149-50 (Link to this contribution) I support the noble Baroness, Lady Billingham, on this important amendment. She and others in the pa...

Lord Lyell | 697 c1150-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure I follow the noble Baroness as I do not know where she lives. On my left we are about ...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 697 c1150 (Link to this contribution) I want to question the noble Lord a little on this. I would agree with him about days gone by—around...

Lord Puttnam | 697 c1151 (Link to this contribution) Is this a reserved or devolved issue?

Lord Rogan | 697 c1151 (Link to this contribution) In Ulster, we do not mind getting up in the early hours, in the darkness, if it helps the greater go...

Lord Whitty | 697 c1151-2 (Link to this contribution) It is not so long ago that I had some responsibility in this House for road safety and then for agri...

Lord Woolmer of Leeds | 697 c1151 (Link to this contribution) I rise only briefly to remark on the reasons given by the noble Lord, Lord Taylor, for resisting the...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 697 c1170 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving a full reply, even at this time of night. It is an importan...

Lord Crickhowell | 697 c1168 (Link to this contribution) I will be very brief. The noble Lord, Lord Woolmer of Leeds, has rendered the Committee a very consi...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 697 c1168-70 (Link to this contribution) I was asked whether the Government was going to be brave. It would be a brave Whip in the House of L...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 697 c1164-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 165: 165: Clause 36, page 18, line 1, after ““activities”” insert ““including ...

Lord Woolmer of Leeds | 697 c1166-8 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Miller, rightly anticipated that I might rise to take a somewhat different ...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1164 (Link to this contribution) I honestly was not at all irritated. I suppose the penny was dropping when I listened to the speech....

Earl Cathcart | 697 c1164 (Link to this contribution) That was quite a useful amendment and discussion. We are trying to get a single UK trading scheme, r...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 697 c1171-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Lord Crickhowell | 697 c1163-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to delay the Committee at a time when the Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms is beginnin...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1172 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.

Earl of Caithness | 697 c1157 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said something important just then. He will recall that I had a little go at him before...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1157 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the figures in great detail in front of me, but it has to be funded because this is ne...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1157 (Link to this contribution) No, I regret that I have not, except that I imagine that this is new money—Defra certainly has no mo...

Earl Cathcart | 697 c1158 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for clarifying the situation—I think. I was comforted when he said that the pri...

Earl of Caithness | 697 c1157-8 (Link to this contribution) It might be helpful if the Minister could write to me on how much money is allocated from within its...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c1158-9 (Link to this contribution) This whole section empowers the national authorities to give binding instructions to the Committee o...

Lord Teverson | 697 c1159 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Question in that it gives the Minister the opportunity to explain the circumstances in...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c1160 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord for that explanation. Clause 34 agreed to. Clause 35 agreed to. Clause 36 ...

Earl Cathcart | 697 c1160-1 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 164A: 164A: Clause 36, page 17, line 34, leave out ““relevant national authori...

Lord Teverson | 697 c1161 (Link to this contribution) We will come on to this in a later amendments. Although from these Benches we welcome devolution in ...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 697 c1161 (Link to this contribution) I would like to argue in favour of this amendment. It seems to me that we are asking for trouble. Yo...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1161-2 (Link to this contribution) With respect, I do not think the drafters of the amendment have fully appreciated its practical sign...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 697 c1163 (Link to this contribution) What the Minister is saying is that we are damned if we do and damned if we do not, and I am not sur...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1163 (Link to this contribution) I freely admit that I have not explained because we are trying to address two different issues here....

Lord Crickhowell | 697 c1157 (Link to this contribution) If I may follow that helpful statement, I am encouraged that the original budget estimates have been...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1156-7 (Link to this contribution) In the interests of getting to the nuts and bolts of this, I will give what financial information I ...

Earl Cathcart | 697 c1156 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 164: 164: Clause 31, page 16, line 14, at end insert— ““( ) Each national auth...

Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 697 c1155 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my contribution will not be too boring in comparison to the lively and enjoyable debate ...

Earl Cathcart | 697 c1154-5 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 161A: 161A: Clause 31, page 16, line 11, at end insert ““including land or any...

Baroness Billingham | 697 c1154 (Link to this contribution) I thank all noble Lords for taking part in this debate. It certainly livened everybody up. Noble Lor...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1153-4 (Link to this contribution) I was hoping that this would continue a little while and that there would be no time for me. I have ...

Earl of Caithness | 697 c1153 (Link to this contribution) I said that we shall all have to take the pain and there will be an awful lot of pain in a wide vari...

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | 697 c1153 (Link to this contribution) The noble Earl, Lord Caithness, talks about the inconvenience for the north of Scotland. Of course h...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c1139 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 158: 158: Clause 28, page 15, line 11, at end insert— ““( ) The Committee’s re...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1170-1 (Link to this contribution) For the convenience of the Committee and being conscious of the time, I revert back to our previous ...

Lord Dixon-Smith | 697 c1159 (Link to this contribution) The Question gives me the chance to ask a rather stupid question: when is a national authority not a...

Earl Cathcart | 697 c1155 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for clarifying the situation and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendm...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1158 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I will try to come back on this but I am not promising to write to the noble Earl, Lord C...

Lord Rooker | 697 c1159-60 (Link to this contribution) Clause 67 is perfectly straightforward. We are dealing with the United Kingdom body here; with the f...

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