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Climate Change Bill [HL]

If I may follow that helpful statement, I am encouraged that the original budget estimates have been increased. The Joint Committee made two specific comments. It expressed a good deal of concern about the scale of the research budget included in the original estimates, as we felt that was likely to be inadequate. We also suggested—particularly in the light of comments from spokesmen and Ministers from Defra about the funding burden falling wholly on them—that the funding mechanism for the committee should be established outwith the Defra budget. Has the Minister any comment on those two specific points?