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 Lords
31 October 2023
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The Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill would put long‑term wellbeing at the centre of policy. It would set national wellbeing goals, require public bodies to pursue wellbeing across environmental, social, economic and cultural dimensions, and publish assessments of future impacts. It would also create forecasting and watchdog bodies and require ministers and the budget watchdog to promote the future generations principle across government policy.
The bill is at the first reading stage in the Lords (introduced 8 July 2022); no further stages have been reported yet.
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8 Jul 2022
The 2022-2023 session of Parliament has prorogued and this bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
