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Debate on bill on Tuesday, 11 December 2007, in the House of Lords.

Climate Change Bill [HL]

Climate Change Bill (HL). Lords Committe stage first day. Clause 1 under consideration. Part 1 of 3 records.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
697 c121-35 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Committee of the Whole House (HL)
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c129 (Link to this contribution) I would like to respond from our point of view. There has been criticism of the amendments. Those of...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 697 c129 (Link to this contribution) I did not want to go into that, but I will now go into the nature of it. Man has been doing all sort...
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Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 697 c129 (Link to this contribution) The uniqueness is in the man-made nature of the climate change.
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 697 c128 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in what the noble Lord has just said. I support the point that he made, but I am dea...
Lord Rooker | 697 c133 (Link to this contribution) The right reverend Prelate has no need to apologise. Save for one other Bill that I helped to steer ...
Bishop of Salisbury | 697 c132-3 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to intervene, and am sympathetic to the complexity of what the Minister has to manage. Bu...
Lord Rooker | 697 c132 (Link to this contribution) I will come back to that. I have not said anything that contradicts it; the basis is exactly the sam...
Lord Redesdale | 697 c132 (Link to this contribution) As I understood it, the 2050 targets were set so that we did not go past the 2-degree threshold. Wha...
Lord Rooker | 697 c129-32 (Link to this contribution) We have got off to a good start. It would have been even better if I could have announced at the out...
Lord Rooker | 697 c133 (Link to this contribution) The Whitehall departments are still engaged with the devolved assemblies. We still have a Scotland O...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 697 c133-4 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend referred to the fact that the Committee on Climate Change would consider all the int...
Lord Rooker | 697 c134 (Link to this contribution) All I can say to my noble friend is that the Bill refers to at least 60 per cent. There is a strong ...
Lord Teverson | 697 c134 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for going through the Government’s view of this new clause in great detail and ...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 697 c135 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.
Lord Jay of Ewelme | 697 c127 (Link to this contribution) I see the logic of including an objective in the Bill. The arguments put forward by the proposers of...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 697 c128 (Link to this contribution) When I made the statement, I was referring to something that was said by the Opposition; it does not...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 697 c128 (Link to this contribution) Having read the amendment and listened to the debate, I am not convinced this amendment is necessary...
Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 697 c122-3 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 2 is the only amendment in this group with which we are directly associated, but we ag...
Lord Teverson | 697 c122 (Link to this contribution) I will respond to that by saying that the Government are claiming that this Bill is unique, that thi...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 697 c122 (Link to this contribution) What I just asked the noble Lord is whether he can point to other statutes where objectives have bee...
Lord Teverson | 697 c122 (Link to this contribution) If I understand the noble Lord, in terms of being binding, the United Kingdom can only have a certai...
Bishop of Salisbury | 697 c123-4 (Link to this contribution) I am content that the noble Lords who have spoken have put into the public domain the main concerns ...
Lord Redesdale | 697 c124-5 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend has spoken about Amendment No. 1. I want to speak to Amendments Nos. 142 and 157, wh...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 697 c125 (Link to this contribution) Having been mentioned by the noble Lord in his contribution, I would like to answer the points that ...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 697 c127 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment tabled by my noble friends. It is not as though they plucked the 2 degrees o...
Baroness Carnegy of Lour | 697 c126 (Link to this contribution) The right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Salisbury has tabled a very interesting amendment. He made ...
Lord Rooker | 697 c121 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Moved acc...
Lord Teverson | 697 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 1: 1: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause— ““Objective of the Act...
Lord Clinton-Davis | 697 c122 (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Lord cite an example in which the objectives of the Bill have been defined as far as s...
Baroness Byford | 697 c128 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend’s amendment. When we debated this Bill at Second Reading, many of us were ...
Lord Dixon-Smith | 697 c126-7 (Link to this contribution) The noble Viscount, Lord Bledisloe, raised a point that also concerns me. The difficulty with temper...
Baroness Carnegy of Lour | 697 c133 (Link to this contribution) To what extent are the devolved assemblies and the Scottish Parliament engaged equally with the Whit...
Viscount Bledisloe | 697 c126 (Link to this contribution) I have a question for both opposition Front Benches. If this objective is to be put in the Bill, pla...
Subjects
Climate change Carbon dioxide Environment protection Environment International cooperation Pollution Temperature Carbon emissions
Legislation
Climate Change Bill (HL) 2007-08
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