Climate Change Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
Phil Woolas (Minister of State (Environment), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Oldham East and Saddleworth, Labour)
I beg to move,
That—
(1) the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday 24th June) meet—
(a) at 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 24th June;
(b) at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 26th June;
(c) at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 1st July;
(d) at 9.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. on Thursday 3rd July;
(e) at 10.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday 8th July;
(2) the proceedings shall be taken in the following order: Clauses 1 to 32; Schedule 1; Clauses 33 to 45; Schedule 2; Clauses 46 to 48; Schedule 3; Clause 49; Schedule 4; Clauses 50 to 69; Schedule 5; Clauses 70 to 74; Schedule 6; Clauses 75 to 80; new Clauses; new Schedules; Clauses 81 to 93; remaining proceedings on the Bill;
(3) the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion at 7.00 p.m. on Tuesday 8th July.
Thank you, Mr. Cook. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship of this important Public Bill Committee considering the Climate Change Bill. I would like to say how much I am looking forward to the deliberations of the Committee, after one of the most extensive consultations on draft legislation and the consultations and scrutiny in the other place.
I note your remarks about the use of laptops, Mr. Cook. I am in the same camp as you on that. I congratulate the hon. Member for Cheltenham on being the first Member, in the history of this place, to have a laptop during the proceedings of the House. No doubt press releases to the Cheltenham papers are on their way out as we speak.
The programme motion is before us. I am pleased to report to the Committee that the usual channels have reached a consensus. There are no knives in the motion. Across the House, we have a consensus on the objectives of the Bill—how do we, in the United Kingdom, help to resist dangerous climate change? The second clause of the programme motion states that the agreed end date is Tuesday 8 July. That gives us sufficient time, so I am happy to move the programme motion.