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Climate Change Bill [HL]

I want to raise a different issue about money. The Minister said that this provision did not lay a duty on these organisations but gave them guidance and, on a selected basis, required the poorer performers to report. That was in order to avoid disproportionate costs and burdens on them. However, if we truly want each of these bodies to start now in earnest by risk assessing and putting in place measures to counteract the impacts of climate change, I am not clear that that is not implicitly requiring them to do something and expecting them to take action and spend money, whether it is a duty or not. The risk of not having a duty is that they do not do it, which would be unthinkable, so the requirement to lay a duty on them is unavoidable, either de facto or de jure.