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Climate Change Bill [HL]

I rise to support my noble friend Lord Teverson on this point. There is a real risk that if Governments are allowed to borrow from another year, the temptation will be to do just that; it will be irresistible. Subsequent Governments may then be able to argue that they have been given an impossible task and cannot make up the deficit. For that reason, difficult though greater tightness might be, there has to be that discipline here. I therefore support my noble friend.