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Climate Change Bill [HL]

I am interested in the Minister’s reply on the relationship with the devolved Administrations. It sounds to me not as if the Minister is going to be not at the mercy of the devolved Administrations, but as if the devolved Administrations are going to set their own targets for saving carbon emissions and buying carbon credits. The Minister will be left to make up the difference, or set the targets, in whatever way seems wisest to him—but it will be after the devolved Administrations have come to him and told him what they plan to do.