Climate Change Bill — Minister to prepare policy — rejected — 31 Mar 2008 at 17:09
A small majority of Lords voted against directing to Secretary of State:[1]
- To prepare such proposals and policies (including the setting of five year budgets) as he reasonably considers will
- ensure that the net UK carbon account for the year 2050 is at least 60% lower than the 1990 baseline, and
- enable the carbon budgets that have been set under this Act to be met.
Without this amendment, the Secretary of State has only a
- duty to ensure that the net UK carbon account for the year 2050 is at least 60% lower than the 1990 baseline[2]
but does not need to prepare proposals, policies, or set five year budgets.
- [1] Lord Crickhowel, House of Lords, 31 March 2008.
- [2] Climate Change Bill, Clause 2, House of Lords.
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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 | Contents | Not-Contents | Turnout |
| Bishop | 3 | 0 | 11.5% |
| Con | 65 (+2 tell) | 0 | 32.7% |
| Crossbench | 20 | 14 | 18.2% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 3 | 113 (+2 tell) | 53.2% |
| LDem | 35 | 0 | 43.8% |
| UKIP | 1 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 128 | 128 | 36.0% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.