Mr. Robert Watt:

If a carbon budget can lead to better decision-making ,it could be good. However, it is not the most important thing on which to focus. I would concentrate on getting the right measures and then on getting the structures to ensure that these are brought forward and implemented. I am not really sure about a carbon budget. I am always sceptical about saying a budget is a housing budget or a health budget because I do not know what it means in reality. Does it make sense for us to collate the measures each year to see if they help? The answer is "Yes", and we do a bit of that. We can look at the spending and tax measures that affect climate but I would not spend too much time worrying about such things as it is the policies, the structures, the mandate and the implementation that matter. It is a question of how we get things done.