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Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill

Would that that were so, but I shall not explore that matter any further, because if I did Mr. Deputy Speaker would be on his feet and I shall allow him to keep his seat on this occasion. So I must go on to subsection (8) and follow the point that my hon. Friend made earlier. It is rather comforting and states that if the Secretary of State revises a target,"““he must publish a statement of that fact together with a copy of the revised target””." Here again I believe that the regional approach that I am suggesting would enable the Secretary of State to focus much better on the target, its accuracy or otherwise, and whether it was met, nearly met or completely wrong. Almost inevitably, that would allow much more sensible policy conclusions to be drawn than if we were to attempt to do so at a national level.