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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given on

Wednesday 22nd October 2008

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

3011-15, 3035-36, 3039, 3049, 3073-74, 3095-96, 3127-29, 3175-76 and 3231-32

Consideration of Bill

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Climate Change Bill [Lords], As Amended

Steve Webb

Martin Horwood

18

Page  27,  line  31  [Clause  59],  at end insert ‘, and

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

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

International aviation and shipping emissions

Steve Webb

Martin Horwood

NC14

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament a report including—

(a)	a projection of the level of emissions he expects to arise from

international aviation and shipping which are the result of UK economic

activity,

(b)	an explanation of the methodology used to make this emissions

projection, and

(c)	the way in which any carbon budgets have been adjusted to take account

of such projections.

(2)	When making the above projection, the Secretary of State shall have regard to

international carbon reporting practice.

(3)	The projection shall cover any year for which a carbon budget has been set, and

may include any other years that the Secretary of State considers appropriate.’.

Harry Cohen

19

Page  77,  line  17  [Schedule  6],  at beginning insert—

Notices of Amendments: 22nd October 2008

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‘(1)	The relevant national authority shall, no later than one year from the date on

which section 75 comes into effect, make a statement indicating statistics about

the supply of single use carrier bags and comparing them with the previous year.

(2)	If the statistics show that there has been no reduction in the supply of single use

carrier bags compared with the previous year, or if the relevant national authority

is not satisfied with any reduction in the supply of single use carrier bags,’.

Harry Cohen

20

Page  77,  line  17  [Schedule  6],  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

Harry Cohen

21

Page  77,  line  20  [Schedule  6],  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

Harry Cohen

22

Page  77,  line  23  [Schedule  6],  leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’.

Harry Cohen

23

Page  78,  line  9  [Schedule  6],  leave out paragraph 4 and insert—

‘4	The minimum amount that a seller must charge for each single use carrier bag

shall be no less than £0.25 for each bag, or such greater amount as the relevant

national authority may specify in regulations.’.

Harry Cohen

24

Page  78,  line  13  [Schedule  6],  leave out from ‘bag’ to end of line 18 and insert

‘means a bag supplied by a seller and which has the primary purpose of carrying items

purchased from that seller on the occasion on which the bag is so supplied, but does not

include an exempt carrier bag.’.

Harry Cohen

25

Page  78,  line  18  [Schedule  6],  at end insert—

‘Exempt carrier bags

5A  (1)

The following bags are “exempt carrier bags” for the purposes of paragraph

5—

(a)	small bags used to contain any unpackaged food for human or animal

consumption;

(b)	bags used for packaging any goods and sealed before the goods are

offered for retail sale or supply;

(c)	bags sold in the ordinary course of trade for use by the customer away

from the premises at which they are sold;

(d)	bags provided to the customer for the transmission of goods to the

retailer;

(e)	bags designed to be used for the disposal of waste;

(f)	bags used to contain goods sold on board a ship, aircraft, train or bus

used for carrying passengers.

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(2)	In sub-paragraph (1)(a), a “small bag” means one which, when measured flat

with any gussets opened, is no larger than 300mm by 300mm.

(3)	The relevant national authority may by regulations—

(a)	add or remove any category of bag from the list of exempt bags in sub-

paragraph (1); or

(b)	reduce the dimensions referred to in sub-paragraph (2).’.

Harry Cohen

26

Page  78,  line  32  [Schedule  6],  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

Advice on emissions from international aviation and international shipping

Secretary Edward Miliband

NC15

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	It is the duty of the Committee to advise the Secretary of State on the

consequences of treating emissions of targeted greenhouse gases from—

(a)	international aviation, and

(b)	international shipping,

as emissions from sources in the United Kingdom for the purposes of Part 1.

(2)	The duty applies if and to the extent that regulations under section 29 do not

provide for such emissions to be so treated.

(3)	Advice given by the Committee under this section must also contain the reasons

for that advice.

(4)	The Committee must give its advice under this section—

(a)	when it gives its advice under section 33 for the budgetary period 2023-

2027, and

(b)	when it gives its advice under that section for each subsequent budgetary

period.

(5)	The Committee must, at the time it gives its advice under this section to the

Secretary of State, send a copy to the other national authorities.

(6)	As soon as is reasonably practicable after giving its advice to the Secretary of

State, the Committee must publish that advice in such manner as it considers

appropriate.’.

Carbon emissions reduction targets

Secretary Edward Miliband

nc16

To move the following Clause:—

‘Schedule [Carbon emissions reduction targets] contains amendments to the

provisions of the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44), the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29) and the

Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27) relating to carbon emissions reduction targets.’.

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Regulations about reporting by companies

Secretary Edward Miliband

nc17

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	‘The Secretary of State must, not later than 6th April 2012—

(a)	make regulations under section 416(4) of the Companies Act 2006 (c. 46)

requiring the directors’ report of a company to contain such information

as may be specified in the regulations about emissions of greenhouse

gases from activities for which the company is responsible, or

(b)	lay before Parliament a report explaining why no such regulations have

been made.

(2)	Subsection (1)(a) is complied with if regulations are made containing provision

in relation to companies, and emissions, of a description specified in the

regulations.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

27

Page  1,  line  6  [Clause  1],  leave out ‘60%’ and insert ‘80%’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

28

Page  1,  line  7  [Clause  1],  leave out subsection (2) and insert—

‘(2)	“The 1990 baseline” means the aggregate amount of—

(a)	net UK emissions of carbon dioxide for that year, and

(b)	net UK emissions of each of the other targeted greenhouse gases for the

year that is the base year for that gas.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

29

Page  2,  line  18  [Clause  2],  leave out from ‘since’ to end of line 20 and insert ‘the

passing of this Act;’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

30

Page  4,  line  4  [Clause  5],  at end insert—

‘(4)	For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) there shall be left out of account—

(a)	so much of the carbon budget for the budgetary period including the year

2020 as the Secretary of State may determine relates to targeted

greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide, and

(b)	so much of the 1990 baseline as is attributable to targeted greenhouse

gases other than carbon dioxide.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

31

Page  4,  line  31  [Clause  6],  at end insert—

‘( )	The power conferred by this section to amend the percentage in section 5(1)(a)

includes power to amend or repeal section 5(4) (which directs that targeted

greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide are to be left out of account for the

purposes of that provision).’.

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Secretary Edward Miliband

32

Page  8,  line  32  [Clause  15],  leave out ‘each targeted greenhouse gas’ and insert

‘carbon dioxide’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

33

Page  8,  line  33  [Clause  15],  after ‘1990,’ insert—

‘( )	the amount of net UK emissions of each targeted greenhouse gas other

than carbon dioxide for the year that is the base year for that gas,’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

34

Page  12,  line  25  [Clause  23],  after ‘dioxide,’ insert—

‘( )

methane,

( )	nitrous oxide,

( )	hydrofluorocarbons,

( )	perfluorocarbons,

( )	sulphur hexafluoride,’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

35

Page  13,  line  3  [Clause  24],  leave out subsections (1) and (2) and insert—

‘(1)	The base years for the purposes of this Act for targeted greenhouse gases other

than carbon dioxide are—

	Gas	Base year
	methane	1990
	nitrous oxide	1990
	hydrofluorocarbons	1995
	perfluorocarbons	1995
	sulphur hexafluoride	1995

(1A)	The Secretary of State may make provision by order amending the table in

subsection (1) so as to—

(a)	specify the base year for a gas designated as a targeted greenhouse gas by

order under section 23(1), or

(b)	specify a different base year from that for the time being specified in

relation to any targeted greenhouse gas other than carbon dioxide.

(1B)	An order may—

(a)	designate a particular base year, or

(b)	designate a number of base years and provide that the average amount of

net UK emissions of a gas for those years is to be treated for the purposes

of this Act as the amount of net UK emissions for the base year.

(1C)	The power in subsection (1A)(b) may only be exercised if it appears to the

Secretary of State that there have been significant developments in European or

international law or policy that make it appropriate to do so.’.

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Secretary Edward Miliband

36

Page  16,  line  4  [Clause  29],  leave out from first ‘the’ to end of line 5 and insert

‘expiry of the period ending with 31st December 2012’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

37

Page  16,  line  25  [Clause  29],  leave out ‘the 1990 baseline in relation to those

periods’ and insert ‘UK emissions of that gas for the year that is the base year for that gas’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

38

Page  16,  line  30  [Clause  29],  leave out ‘taken into account as if part of the 1990

baseline’ and insert ‘treated for the purposes of this Act as UK emissions of that gas for

the year that is the base year for that gas’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

39

Page  16,  line  30  [Clause  29],  at end insert—

‘( )	For the purposes of this section the base year for carbon dioxide is the year that

is the baseline year for the purposes of this Part.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

40

Page  17,  line  17  [Clause  32],  leave out ‘before’ and insert ‘not later than’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

41

Page  18,  line  13  [Clause  33],  leave out ‘before’ and insert ‘not later than’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

42

Page  20,  line  26  [Clause  39],  at end insert—

‘( )	section (Advice in connection with international aviation and

international shipping) (advice in connection with international aviation

and international shipping),’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

43

Page  21,  line  10  [Clause  40],  at end insert—

‘( )	section (Advice in connection with international aviation and

international shipping) (advice in connection with international aviation

and international shipping),’.

Mr Secretary Miliband

44

Page  38,  line  19  [Clause  81],  leave out ‘2011’ and insert ‘2010’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

45

Page  45,  line  11  [Clause  94],   at end insert—

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‘( )	Section (Carbon emissions reduction targets) and Schedule (Carbon emissions

reduction targets) (carbon emissions reduction targets) extend to England and

Wales and Scotland only.’.

Secretary Edward Miliband

46

Page  45,  line  13  [Clause  95],   after ‘budgeting)’, insert ‘, Part 2 (the Committee on

Climate Change).

Secretary Edward Miliband

47

Page  45,  line  15  [Clause  95],  leave out subsection (2).

Secretary Edward Miliband

ns1

To move the following Schedule:—

‘Carbon emissions reduction targets

Gas Act 1986 (c. 44)

6    (1)

Section 33BC of the Gas Act 1986 (promotion of reductions in carbon

emissions: gas transporters and gas suppliers) is amended as follows.

(2)	After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)

The power to make orders under this section may be exercised so as to

impose more than one carbon emissions reduction obligation on a

person in relation to the same period or to periods that overlap to any

extent.”.

(3)	In subsection (5) (provision that may be made by an order under section 33BC

in relation to the obligations it imposes), after paragraph (b) insert—

“(ba)

requiring the whole or any part of a carbon emissions

reductions target to be met by action relating to—

(i)	persons of a specified description,

(ii)	specified areas or areas of a specified description, or

(iii)

persons of a specified description in specified areas or

areas of a specified description;”.

(4)	In subsection (13) (interpretation), at the appropriate place insert—

““specified” means specified in the order.”.

Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29)

7	In section 6(9) of the Electricity Act 1989 (definition of “electricity

distributor” and “electricity supplier”), at the appropriate place insert—

““electricity generator” means any person who is authorised by a

generation licence to generate electricity except where that person is

acting otherwise than for purposes connected with the carrying on of

activities authorised by the licence;”.

8    (1)

Section 41A of that Act (promotion of reductions in carbon emissions:

electricity distributors and electricity suppliers) is amended as follows.

(2)	In subsection (1) (power by order to impose obligations on distributors and

suppliers to achieve carbon emissions reductions targets)—

(a)	before paragraph (a) insert—

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Revised 23 October 2008