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Climate Change Bill [HL]

On this question of clarity, because I am a rather sad person, I looked up the Oxford English Dictionary definition of supplement and supplementary. It states clearly that it is to furnish a supplement or to supply the deficiency. If I heard my noble friend correctly, he helpfully said ““the significant””, rather than ““a significant””. This type of tautology frightens the life out of me. Will he help me with my slight crisis and go to the extent of using the words ““the majority””? Would the Government be prepared to instruct the climate change committee that the majority of carbon savings would be achieved from domestic action? I stress that because successive Governments will come under the hammer on this. Getting behaviour change through will not be politically popular, but I am desperately trying to cling on to something here that ensures that the government of the day are required to take relatively unpopular actions for the benefit of the country as a whole and in the longer term.