Consultation outcome

New Sustainable Development Indicators

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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Summary of responses

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Government response

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Detail of outcome

The indicators are intended to provide an overview of national progress on key issues that are important economically, socially and environmentally in the long term and will be published on 18 July 2013.


Original consultation

Summary

An opportunity to comment on a new set of sustainable development indicators.

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Consultation description

Sustainable Development Indicators are used to measure national progress on key economic, social and environmental issues over time. They are intended to complement the National Wellbeing Measures published by the Office for National Statistics.

They are widely used outside of government by academics, non-governmental organisations and businesses.

This consultation provided the opportunity to comment on the choice and coverage of a new set of indicators.

You can also read about the proposals at: http://sd.defra.gov.uk/new-sd-indicators/.

Documents

Consultation document

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Consultation letter

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Statistical release

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Annex I – proposed Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs)

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Annex II – previous SDIs

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Annex III – previous SDI survey summary

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Annex IV – previous SDI survey: stakeholder comments

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Published 24 July 2012
Last updated 28 June 2013 + show all updates
  1. Changed tense of summary/detail wording and added government response and replaced the summary of response (the current one had a formatting issue).

  2. First published.