Clause 60
Climate Change Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
Gregory Barker (Shadow Minister, Environment, Food & Rural Affairs; Bexhill and Battle, Conservative)
I appreciate the Minister’s words about the amendment. Given that this is an important area and that there have been practical examples of where a lack of co-operation has had a bad effect on local ability to deal with severe weather, which will only increase with the onset of climate change, we would have liked the Bill to contain a more clearly stated obligation on local authorities to co-operate on adaptation. However, I heard what the Minister said about the obligations being diffused elsewhere in the legislation. On that basis, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.