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
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This bill would set a formal framework for long‑term wellbeing in the UK. It would establish national wellbeing goals, require public bodies to work to achieve them, and mandate future generations impact assessments and forecasting, while creating new bodies and duties to embed long‑term thinking across government and public spending.
The bill is currently at the 2nd reading in the House of Commons; it originated in the Commons and there is no information in the provided data about progress beyond that stage.
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21 Jun 2021
10 Dec 2021
The 2021-2022 session of Parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
