Schedule 5
Climate Change Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
David Maclean (Penrith and The Border, Conservative)
I agree with my right hon. Friend. I also agree with the Minister that it is important that recycling is increased. We need to educate the public to do that better.
I would have liked to have seen the Government’s “good” recycling scheme before going ahead with the measure. I am appalled at how some things have slipped in the House since the old days. When I was in government 10 years ago, we could never have come along to a Committee and said, “Pass this legislation. We will at some point in the future produce a good recycling service, and we will produce guidance and standards on what that is.” The Committee would have said, “Look, Minister, we are not going to go ahead with that until you produce the regulations and the guidance.”