Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what use in formulating policy her Department has made of the National Wellbeing Index introduced by the Office for National Statistics since the introduction of that Index in 2011; and what policies her Department has introduced to improve national wellbeing as defined in that Index since 2010.

Karen Bradley

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. However there is much work going on across
government which is detailed in the evidence provided to the Environmental
Audit Committee for its Inquiry into Wellbeing. This can be found at:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/envir
onmental-audit-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/well-being/