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  Climate Change Bill - Report on the civil estate
  
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  The majority of MPs voted for a new clause to be added to the [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2008-10-28&number=296 Climate Change Bill], which said:[1]
  
  * It is the duty of the Office of Government Commerce to produce an annual report setting out the progress made towards improving the efficiency and sustainability of its civil estate in terms of reducing its size, improving the sustainability of the buildings that already form part of the civil estate, and ensuring that any new buildings procured for the civil estate are in the upper quartile of energy performance.
  * Where any new building procured for the civil estate is not in the upper quartile of energy performance, the report must state the reasons why this is the case.
  
  This was a Government backed proposal[2] with widespread support, voted against only by a small number of Conservative Party MPs, some of whom don't believe that Climate Change is real.[3]
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-10-28a.824.0 New Clause 18 - Report on the civil estate], House of Commons, 28 October 2008
  * [2] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-10-28a.813.0#g815.1 Joan Ruddock MP], House of Commons, 28 October 2008
  * [3] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-10-28a.833.0#g838.1 Peter Lilley MP], House of Commons, 28 October 2008
  
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