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Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill

I congratulate my hon. Friend on framing the expression ““Touché”” in such polite terms. He is making exactly the same criticism that I made of new clause 1 and Government new clause 4, which do not achieve anything that cannot already be achieved by other means. I accept in the spirit in which it is intended his criticism that new clause 3 will not achieve anything that we cannot achieve in written parliamentary questions. He will know, however, that in business questions, the issue was raised as to whether or not our right to table as many ordinary written questions as possible will be curtailed by the Government, thus removing the liberty of representatives to defend their interest in a subject. In such circumstances, if one exhausted one’s allocation of questions on a particular day or the Minister did not answer the question, as is often the case, one might not have the opportunity to ask more questions.