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House of Commons

Thursday 3rd July 2008

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Other Amendments not tabled within the required notice period are marked thus

Climate Change Bill [Lords]

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Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

Committee [24th June 2008].

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

67

Schedule  1,  page  46,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘( )	The Committee must itself exercise its functions under Part 1 of this Act.’.

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

68

Schedule  1,  page  46,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘( )	The Committee must take all reasonable steps to ensure effective public

participation in the exercise of its functions.’.

Mr Phil Woolas

10

Schedule  1,  page  46,  line  17,  leave out paragraph 16 and insert—

‘The Adaptation Sub-Committee

(1)	There shall be a sub-committee of the Committee, to be known as the

Adaptation Sub-Committee or, in Welsh, as yr Is-bwyllgor Addsau (referred

to in this paragraph as “the ASC”).

(2)	The ASC shall consist of—

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(a)	a person appointed by the national authorities to chair the ASC (“the

ASC chair”), and

(b)	not less than five other members appointed by the national authorities.

(3)	The national authorities must—

(a)	consult the chair before appointing the ASC chair, and

(b)	consult the ASC chair before appointing the other members of the

ASC.

(4)	The ASC must provide the Committee with such advice, analysis, information

or other assistance as the Committee may require in connection with the

exercise of its functions under—

(a)	section 37(1)(c) (advice etc to national authorities on adaptation to

climate change),

(b)	section [Advice of Committee on Climate Change on impact report]

(advice on report on impact of climate change), or

(c)	section [Reporting on progress in connection with adaptation]

(reporting on progress in connection with adaptation).’.

Martin Horwood

Steve Webb

80

Schedule  1,  page  46,  line  31,  at end insert—

‘( )	sustainable development.’.

Mr Phil Woolas

11

Schedule  1,  page  48,  line  24,  at end insert—

‘( )	section [Advice of Committee on Climate Change on impact report]

(advice on report on impact of climate change), or

( )	section [Reporting on progress in connection with adaptation] (reporting

on progress in connection with adaptation).’.

Steve Webb

Martin Horwood

102

Clause  33,  page  17,  line  10,  leave out ‘December’ and insert ‘November’.

Mr Phil Woolas

12

Clause  34,  page  18,  line  6,  leave out subsection (5).

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Mr Phil Woolas

13

Clause  35,  page  18,  line  38,  leave out subsection (3).

Martin Horwood

Steve Webb

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

76

Clause  36,  page  19,  line  10,  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘Prime

Minister’.

Martin Horwood

Steve Webb

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

77

Clause  36,  page  19,  line  13,  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘Prime

Minister’.

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

85

Clause  36,  page  19,  line  19,  leave out ‘Secretary of State’ and insert ‘Prime

Minister’.

Mr Phil Woolas

14

Clause  37,  page  19,  line  26,  leave out from ‘or’ to end of line 27 and insert—

‘(c)	adaptation to climate change, or

(d)	any other matter relating to climate change.’.

Mr Phil Woolas

15

Clause  40,  page  20,  line  31,  at end insert—

‘(e)	section [Advice of Committee on Climate Change on impact report]

(advice on report on impact of climate change), or

(f)	section [Reporting on progress in connection with adaptation] (reporting

on progress in connection with adaptation).’.

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Mr Phil Woolas

16

Clause  40,  page  20,  line  32,  leave out ‘such guidance’ and insert ‘guidance under

any of paragraphs (a) to (e)’.

Mr Phil Woolas

17

Clause  41,  page  21,  line  15,  at end insert—

‘(e)	section [Advice of Committee on Climate Change on impact report]

(advice on report on impact of climate change), or

(f)	section [Reporting on progress in connection with adaptation] (reporting

on progress in connection with adaptation).’.

Mr Phil Woolas

18

Clause  41,  page  21,  line  16,  leave out ‘such directions’ and insert ‘directions under

any of paragraphs (a) to (e)’.

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

71

Page  21,  line  5,  leave out Clause 41.

Martin Horwood

Steve Webb

74

Schedule  2,  page  51,  line  33,  leave out from ‘responsible’ to end of line 34.

Martin Horwood

Steve Webb

73

Schedule  2,  page  51,  line  34,  at end insert—

  ‘(5A)  

(a)	Any method specified for the purposes of paragraph (5) shall have the

aim of ensuring that any amount calculated bears as close a

relationship as possible to the actual emissions of the activities to

which the trading scheme applies;

(b)	where biomass is used as an energy source, any such method shall take

account of the carbon absorbed during the lifetime of the biomass;

(c)	“biomass” has the same meaning as in the Renewable Transport Fuel

Obligations Order 2007.’.

Mr Phil Woolas

23

Schedule  2,  page  60,  line  3,  after ‘participants’, insert ‘or other persons authorised

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to trade in allowances, credits or certificates’.

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

69

Clause  55,  page  25,  line  35,  at end insert ‘including in particular the risks of harm

to—

(a)	the well-being of the population,

(b)	the environment, including natural resources, biodiversity, living

organisims and ecological systems of which they form part, and

(c)	the economy.’.

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

70

Clause  55,  page  26,  line  2,  at end insert—

‘( )	In preparing reports under this section the Secretary of State must have regard to

whether the net UK carbon account is within the indicative annual range for the

relevant periods and the effect of any differences on the risks for the United

Kingdom of the predicted impact of climate change.’.

Mr Phil Woolas

19

Clause  55,  page  26,  line  5,  at end insert—

‘( )	Before laying a report under this section before Parliament, the Secretary of State

must take into account the advice of the Committee on Climate Change under

section [Advice of Committee on Climate Change on impact report].’.

Mr Phil Woolas

20

Clause  55,  page  26,  line  8,  leave out subsection (6).

Mr Phil Woolas

21

Clause  56,  page  26,  line  22,  leave out subsection (3).

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Mr Phil Woolas

22

Page  26,  line  30,  leave out Clause 57.

Martin Horwood

Steve Webb

72

Clause  59,  page  27,  line  24,  at end insert—

‘( )	ensuring that proposals and policies for adaptation to climate change in

the exercise of their functions contribute to sustainable development.’.

Martin Horwood

Steve Webb

78

Clause  59,  page  27,  line  25,  at end add—

‘(3)	The Secretary of State shall issue guidance to—

(a)	the Health Protection Agency,

(b)	the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets,

(c)	the Water Services Regulation Authority,

(d)	Natural England,

(e)	the Marine and Fisheries Agency,

(f)	Britishwaterways,

(g)	the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment,

(h)	the Statistics Board, and

(i)	the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.’.

Gregory Barker

Miss Anne McIntosh

Mr Nick Hurd

105

Clause  60,  page  27,  line  42,  at end add—

‘(5)	The Secretary of State may by regulations—

(a)	make provision requiring reporting authorities to co-operate with other

reporting authorities in the provision of information and the preparation

of any report under this section.

(b)	make provision as to the arrangements for such co-operation.’.

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Martin Horwood

Steve Webb

79

Clause  68,  page  31,  line  16,  leave out paragraph (a).

Mr Phil Woolas

103

Clause  69,  page  32,  line  40,  leave out ‘may only be brought’ and insert ‘come’.

David Maclean

41

Page  32,  line  37,  leave out Clauses 69 to 73.

David Maclean

108

Schedule  5,  page  69,  line  3,  at end insert—

‘(d)	the authority proposes to collect residual domestic waste at least once in

every seven days, and

(e)	the authority proposes to collect all recyclable material, including

tetrapak materials, polystyrene and all plastics.’.

David Maclean

109

Schedule  5,  page  69,  line  32,  at end insert ‘but no charges for residual domestic

waste can be imposed unless the authority has made provision to collect all other materials

not less than once every 14 days, including, (i) all plastics of whatever type, (ii)

polystyrene, (iii) paper and card of all descriptions including tetrapak, (iv) glass and (v)

metal and aluminium.’.

Mr Phil Woolas

24

Schedule  5,  page  74,  line  21,  leave out paragraph 3 and insert—

‘(1)	Section 46 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) (receptacles for

household waste) is amended as follows.

(2)	After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)

Where—

(a)	subsection (1) applies to a waste collection authority, and

(b)	a waste reduction scheme under Schedule 2AA to this Act is in

operation in the authority’s area,

the authority may require the occupier to place the waste for collection in

receptacles identified by such means as may be specified.

(1B)	A requirement under subsection (1A)—

(a)	must be imposed by notice served on the occupier;

(b)	may be imposed instead of, or in addition to, any requirement

imposed on the occupier under subsection (1).”.

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