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Climate Change Bill [HL]

No. I would hope that it would be delivered in a reasonable timescale, but I can give no commitments whatever about when a Bill might appear. The Government are committed to doing it, but we need the report and the consultations on it. As the noble Lord said, the Marine Bill has been a long time coming, and there are all kinds of barriers, difficulties and technical problems, notwithstanding, as business managers would say, parliamentary time. The commitment is there but I can give no assurances tonight. I may be asked the same question on Report because we may come back to this again, but never the less, we cannot move on this. We accept the urgent recommendations of the Pitt review—I think there are 17. There were 50-odd non-urgent ones. There was a substantial number of recommendations, so we are urgently considering them. We are awaiting his final report with interest.