Climate Change Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 4: 4: Clause 24, page 13, line 1, after first ““the”” insert ““amount of”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, in moving the amendment, I shall speak also to Amendments Nos. 5 and 10. These are minor technical changes to the Bill. Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 are intended to provide greater consistency in the use of the terms ““emissions”” and ““amount of emissions”” in Clause 24(2). Similar wording is included elsewhere, for example in Clause 15 and earlier in Clause 24. Amendment No. 5 also makes clear that if we are to treat emissions of a greenhouse gas for a particular year as if they were emissions of that gas for 1990, then that applies to the Climate Change Act as a whole, not just for that clause. Amendment No. 10 includes reference in paragraph 25 of Schedule 1 to the Committee on Climate Change’s review of the 2050 target required under Clause 33. This amendment is simply to make sure that the list of the committee’s functions in Clause 33 is comprehensive, so that if any information is needed on any of the committee’s activities, it can be obtained. A similar amendment has already been made to the second subsections of Clauses 40 and 41, regarding powers to give guidance and directions respectively. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.