A Bill to make provision for a public consultation to inform a set of national wellbeing goals; to require public bodies to act in pursuit of the United Kingdom’s environmental, social, economic and cultural wellbeing by meeting wellbeing objectives, publishing future generations impact assessments and accounting for preventative spending; to establish a futures and forecasting report; to establish a Commission for Future Generations for the United Kingdom; to extend the duty of the Office of Budget Responsibility to consider wellbeing and the future generations principle in their work; to add onto a Minister in each government department's portfolio a duty to promote the future generations principle across government policy; to establish a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Future Generations; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
5 May 2022
The bill would set up a public consultation to agree national wellbeing goals and require public bodies to work to improve the UK's environmental, social, economic and cultural wellbeing. It would require publishing future generations impact assessments and considering preventative spending, and would establish forecasting work and a Commission for Future Generations. It would also create a Joint Parliamentary Committee and place cross-government duties on ministers and the Office for Budget Responsibility to prioritise long-term wellbeing.
The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Commons and is in the early stages of passage. If it progresses, it would move to committee stage, then to the Lords for consideration.
Generated 21 February 2026
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
