ACCURACY IN HONOURABLE MEMBERS' SPEECHES

That this House believes in the importance of greater accuracy from hon. Members in parliamentary debates; notes that on 10 September 2013, the hon. Member for Monmouth claimed that a parliamentary answer he had received said that, every person in the country will be paying between £4,700 and £5,300 a year towards the Government's climate change policies; further notes that the figures given described the average per person for all energy costs between 2010 and 2050 including all capital, operating and fuel costs for the whole energy system including cars, trains, aeroplanes, power stations, boilers and insulation; asserts that climate change policies account for a very small part of the total; further notes that on 5 June 2013 the hon. Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire said that 40 per cent of the badgers in the Welsh experiment in north Pembrokeshire will already be suffering from bovine TB; further notes that in answer to a request for the source of his claim he quoted a briefing from Professor Boyd of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, who subsequently said that figures for the prevalence of bovine TB in badgers in Wales were not provided; and looks forward to the hon. Members' consideration of whether their words inadvertently misled the House; and calls on them to make appropriate corrections where necessary.