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Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill

I have to concede to my hon. Friend that, whenever we draw boundaries and delineate areas, there will be anomalies. However, I am suggesting that national targets—particularly in the area of climate, microgeneration and the like—would probably be relatively meaningless, and that a regional approach would be much more sensible. I understand that anomalies could well arise in regard to the boundaries between regions, as my hon. Friend suggests, but I think that we shall just have to accept that that might, on occasions, be somewhat misleading or take us in the wrong direction. On balance, however, a regional approach would be preferable to a national one.