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Climate Change Bill [HL]

I do not know the answer to that and will take advice. I also remember looking at it, because some of these units will include hospitals. I am not sure whether the unit would be the hospital on a site or the health trust, which may have more than one hospital. I do not know, but it is a practical question; it is the type of issue that will be touched on. It is true that different sites will have different supplies; I am talking about this trigger mechanism of the electricity that they consume. However, I do not know whether it would be linked up or not. I do not know the answer to that, but I will do my best to get one. The noble Lord, Lord Teverson, asked me—this is the question that I did not answer—what further schemes might follow the CRC. The powers in this part of the Bill may also be used to introduce a household energy supplier obligation to succeed the carbon emissions reduction target, which ends in 2011. However, it is difficult to specify at this stage how the powers might be used, as the purpose is to maintain flexibility in supporting activities that will enable us to meet the targets in the Bill. The point of enabling powers is that they will allow schemes to be introduced quickly without the need for further primary legislation, although subject, as I said, to a vote in both Houses following consultation with those affected and—and I do not mean this in a nasty or pejorative sense—advice from the great and the good on the Committee on Climate Change. As has been said, the Committee on Climate Change has to be authoritative. These are strong safeguards, which will make sure that the powers are used appropriately and not inappropriately.