Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 24
24
Not Addressed
Paragraph: 122
As the Public Accounts Committee has recently observed, there is no single point of responsibility...
Conclusion
As the Public Accounts Committee has recently observed, there is no single point of responsibility within government for monitoring overall expenditure on environmental goals, and the Government does not have a good understanding of the total costs required to deliver its environmental goals. It is difficult to determine how much of the funding announced by Ministers for these goals has so far been spent, and thus whether the Government’s funding commitments will in fact be met.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government has commissioned the Joint Nature Conservation Committee to develop a global environmental footprint indicator as part of the 25 Year Environment Plan. However, this response does not address the committee's concern about the lack of a single point of responsibility for monitoring environmental expenditure or understanding total costs.
Paragraph Reference:
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Government Response
The government responded to this report on 30 September 2021. No passage in that response could be matched to this conclusion. Read the response document ↗