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Climate Change Bill [HL]

My noble friend Lord Crickhowell has touched on some of the ground that I wished to cover. Continuous risk assessments will presumably be made regardless—I assume that it is one of the committee’s main roles—and information will be made available as part of that process. I have two questions for the Minister. He referred in his opening remarks to new mythology. I do not see how that is relevant to the requests in our amendments. He also said that the Government were committed to regular reports. However, in his first response to me he said that the reports would come only every five years. We are not getting a regular report ““from time to time”” on this aspect of the Bill. It will probably be five years at the earliest and could be longer. The noble Lord, Lord Woolmer, pleaded that we support the Bill as it is, but some Members of the Committee are not happy that it should be left as it is. Will the Minister clarify the position?