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Energy: Low Carbon Transition Plan

My Lords, is the Minister aware that, whatever view one takes of climate change, to pretend, as this Statement does, that the enforced move from cheaper to dearer energy, greased by lavish bribes at the taxpayer’s expense, is economically beneficial displays a level of economic illiteracy that even a first-year student should be ashamed to exhibit? Further, when the Statement boasts that this is the first country in the world to set legally binding carbon budgets—not to mention the departmental budgets—is he aware that that is so only because there is not a single other country in the world that has the slightest intention of pursuing such a foolish and damaging policy?