Climate Change Bill — UK domestic effort — 11 Mar 2008 at 16:53
The majority of Lords voted for a new clause to be added to the Climate Change Bill,[1] which said:[2]
The Secretary of State must ensure that at least 70% of the effort undertaken for compliance with Carbon Budget is achieved by domestic emissions reductions and domestic removal by sinks.
This changes the Bill from targeting the UK net emissions, which includes the credits traded abroad, to requiring a component of actual emissions reduction to happen within the UK.
- [1] Climate Change Bill, House of Lords.
- [2] Lord Taylor Teversham, House of Lords, 11 March 2008
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Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.| Party | Majority (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 3 | 0 | 12.0% |
| Con | 76 (+1 tell) | 0 | 37.6% |
| Crossbench | 30 | 8 | 20.3% |
| Independent Labour | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 1 | 131 (+2 tell) | 60.1% |
| LDem | 64 (+1 tell) | 0 | 81.3% |
| UKIP | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 175 | 141 | 44.2% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.