Professor John FitzGerald:

We are charged in legislation with advising on policy, not making policy. We do not have the resources. That is what we have a Department for. As I have indicated, I am concerned that the Department has failed to deliver on this. Part of the problem it has faced has been that, in the establishment of the new Department, the expertise to do that, which was available in the old Department, did not transfer. It is a problem but we are not in a position to do it. We can throw out ideas and we have looked at the price of carbon to begin with, as that is essential. We are moving now to agriculture and, successively over the next year, we will look at transport and heat and give our views. However, we are not in a position to put forward a full framework on how we deliver.