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Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill

It is interesting that clause 2(1) has two paragraphs. It provides for the Prime Minister or whichever Minister to report on the steps that have been taken—the inputs—and the levels of emissions of greenhouse gases, which constitute the outputs. In most Government policies, Ministers tend to focus on the inputs and spend much less time on the genuine outcomes that affect our constituents. Is not the danger that a report of that nature would have lot of content about such activity—as my right hon. Friend says from his great experience in government, civil servants are good at making those parts of the report lengthy—and would probably say little about the reality that affects our constituents?