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Climate Change Bill [HL]

I understand that we shall have a debate on that very point after the dinner break. I can pontificate because I roughly know the planned timetable for the Bill—to get Royal Assent in the spring. That is the objective; it has to go through the other House, of course. Before then, the climate change committee will be set up in shadow form—the chair and the members—but until the Bill gets Royal Assent, it will not have authority to start the operation. The secretariat has already been set up to serve the climate change committee, but we shall probably have a bit more detail on that on Amendment No. 10.