Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what use his Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics in formulating policy since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.
Mike Penning
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is measuring National Wellbeing, not as an index but through a framework of 41 indicators which capture social progress around important aspects of life for individuals, communities and the nation. The statistics are experimental and as such we should not expect to have examples of major policies that have been heavily influenced by the wellbeing data at this stage.
Evidence provided to the Environmental Audit Committee for its Inquiry into Wellbeing can be found at:
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