Parliamentary search - Climate Change Bill [HL]

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

699 c982-1029

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Legislative stage

Report stage

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New clauses

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House of Lords chamber

Climate Change Bill (HL). As amended in Committee.
Monday, 4 February 2008
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Proceeding contributions

Lord Campbell-Savours | 699 c1005 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is hard to explain. I am isolating a group of Members of this House who seem to be flag...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 699 c1004-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I believe that the Liberal Democrats have made the error of pursuing the agenda that was p...

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Lord Clinton-Davis | 699 c1004 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I entirely agree with my noble friend. This amendment is somewhat illusory. We cannot poss...

Lord Woolmer of Leeds | 699 c1003-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment is not about the future of aviation, but whether an attempt should be made i...

Lord Brabazon of Tara | 699 c1002 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the amendment is agreed to, I shall not be able to call Amendment No. 65.

Lord Dixon-Smith | 699 c1002-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hesitate to intervene, but we need to think carefully about what the noble Lord, Lord Te...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 699 c1002 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Australia has changed dramatically in the past few days, with the election of the new Labo...

Lord Teverson | 699 c1002 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like the noble Lord, I welcome the change in attitude of the Australian Government. I welc...

Lord Teverson | 699 c1000-1 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 64: 64: Clause 12, page 7, line 1, leave out ““aviation or from international ...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1007-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I realise that we will cover some similar material when we come to debate the next group o...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c1007 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if it will be of some comfort to the Liberal Democrats, we, too, believe that the emission...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1010 (Link to this contribution) I think the answer to the noble Lord is yes. I saw the report of the work to which he has referred a...

Lord May of Oxford | 699 c1010 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the reason we focused both in the Joint Committee and here today on aviation rather than o...

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 699 c1006 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, because I wanted to respond to that point....

Lord Campbell-Savours | 699 c1006 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the distinction between the position taken by the noble Baroness and myself and, perhaps, ...

Lord Redesdale | 699 c1005 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the noble Lord saying that we should not debate this in Parliament or raise these issue...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 699 c1005 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is not that the issues should not be debated; of course they should be debated. But we ...

Lord Turnbull | 699 c1018-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the arguments against inclusion seem to confuse two completely different issues. The first...

Baroness Byford | 699 c1018 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for moving the amendment. As I am following on from ...

Earl of Selborne | 699 c1017-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the question is whether the amendments make it harder to negotiate the international agree...

Lord Teverson | 699 c1011 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for going through this again. We have had an excellent debate, but I ...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 699 c1011 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the noble Lord accept that operations abroad would benefit if unilateral action were ...

Lord Greenway | 699 c1010-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I reinforce what the Minister said about shipping. The International Maritime Organisation...

Lord Teverson | 699 c1016-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we on these Benches think that the amendment is not as good as it could be. We should be m...

Lord Greenway | 699 c1017 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Taylor, said ““if shipping becomes heavily regulated””; I can assure ...

Lord Teverson | 699 c1011-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that question shows the misunderstanding of the amendment. It is about measurement. If we ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c1014-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 65: 65: Clause 12, page 7, line 1, leave out ““aviation or from international ...

Bishop of Liverpool | 699 c983 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Northover. I declare an interest as a ...

Lord Rooker | 699 c982 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that the Bill be now further considered on Report. Moved accordingly, and, ...

Baroness Northover | 699 c982-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 47: 47: Clause 10, page 6, line 12, at end insert ““, particularly with respec...

Lord Rooker | 699 c984 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for bringing back this issue, but I draw the attention...

Lord Redesdale | 699 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment. I suspect that the Minister will not accept it, but...

Baroness Carnegy of Lour | 699 c989 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord May, has expressed a very important view. This is probably one of the...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 699 c989 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment for the reasons that I set out in some detail in Committee. I am n...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 699 c988 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord who opened the debate and the noble Lord, Lord Redesdale, failed to underst...

Lord May of Oxford | 699 c988-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the Committee on Climate Change and I hasten to add t...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c985-7 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 51A: 51A: Clause 11, page 6, line 17, leave out ““Secretary of State”” and ins...

Lord Redesdale | 699 c987-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in speaking to these amendments to which my name is added, I strongly support the noble Lo...

Baroness Northover | 699 c985 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their comments and the Minister for his reply. This issue above al...

Lord Rooker | 699 c985 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 49 and 50: 49: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause— ““Duty to p...

Earl of Caithness | 699 c990 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I supported this amendment in Committee, and it was also one of the issues to which the Jo...

Lord Tugendhat | 699 c990 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, support my noble friend. If the Prime Minister is not responsible for this task, i...

Lord Whitty | 699 c990 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have some sympathy with what has been said. We have to look at how we can achieve a cohe...

Lord Dearing | 699 c991 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the suggestion of the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, that if the Government are not mi...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 699 c991 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in no way do I resile from the amendment moved by my noble friend or from the observations...

Baroness Northover | 699 c991 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I point out that there is a precedent for this. It is in the Regulation of Investigatory P...

Baroness Byford | 699 c991-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not wish to disagree with my noble friend Lord Brooke, but I support the amendment. I...

Lord Rooker | 699 c992 (Link to this contribution) I have got to do my best. I want to disabuse noble Lords. I do not have the answer in front of me bu...

Lord Rooker | 699 c993 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am making a genuine point. What counts is the substance of the Bill and the operation of...

Lord Rooker | 699 c994-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the answer may be yes, but I am doing my best to make sure that it is not carried in this ...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 699 c994 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is not the measure of the value of an amendment moved in this House whether, if it were to...

Lord Rooker | 699 c994 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all those issues apply to current legislation and are nothing to do with climate change. S...

Baroness Carnegy of Lour | 699 c993-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is what the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Oldham, said last time. I am sure that it is t...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c999 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 55A: 55A: Clause 11, page 6, line 24, leave out ““Secretary of State”” and ins...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 57: 57: Clause 12, page 6, line 27, after ““Parliament”” insert ““and propose ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c996-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister and all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I assure him that...

Lord Rooker | 699 c999 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 53 and 54: 53: Clause 11, page 6, line 20, at end insert— ““( ) The report m...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1000 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord. I can cut to the quick here. Following debates that we ha...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c1000 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his response, in the light of which I beg leave to withdraw the...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1023 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I feel as though I need to say this because the noble Lord has obviously cut the ground fr...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c1023-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with the Minister. It would be far more desirable when we come to the second eleme...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1026 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendments Nos. 67 and 68: 67: Clause 12, page 7, line 8, leave out ““budgetary period in wh...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1027 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 69A: 69A: Clause 12, page 7, line 12, at end insert— ““(7A) It must state— (a)...

Earl of Liverpool | 699 c1019 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there seems to be a wide measure of consensus in favour of this measure and of moving gent...

Lord Woolmer of Leeds | 699 c1019-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as I understand the amendment, in substance it has two elements to it. One is that it refr...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1020-2 (Link to this contribution) This has been a useful debate. As has been said, there are two amendments here which would make key ...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c1022-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. He has left me feeling that, if only I had time, I...

Lord May of Oxford | 699 c1019 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Turnbull, has just said much more gracefully and forcefully what I wo...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 699 c1029 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that further consideration on Report be now adjourned. Moved accordingly, a...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1029 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 70: 70: Clause 12, page 7, line 13, leave out subsection (8) On Question, ame...

Lord Rooker | 699 c1028-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the support for the amendment. To answer the specific questions, the gov...

Lord Teverson | 699 c1028 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we on these Benches also welcome the amendment in general terms, and I would make many sim...

Earl of Selborne | 699 c1006-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is only one acid test as to whether or not the amendment is appropriate: is it going...

Earl of Selborne | 699 c1006 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 699 c1027-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment adds welcome precision to the annual reporting mechanism. It places a duty ...

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