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Recommendation 5
5
Deferred
Paragraph: 25
Continue to fund development of a monitoring, measurement and reporting framework for UK consumption.
Recommendation
To ensure that the UK can measure and track progress, we recommend that the Government should continue to fund the development of a monitoring, measurement and reporting framework for UK consumption.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government did not commit to funding the development of a monitoring, measurement, and reporting framework for UK consumption, instead stating it is not currently considering widening the scope of Government Buying Standards (GBS) and detailing an ongoing consultation to update the GBS for food and catering.
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Paragraph Reference:
25
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
impacts of UK consumption. Since 2019, when the Outcome Indicator Framework was first published, the government has developed an approach to monitoring the global environmental impact of UK consumption. Significant developments have been made since then, including the incorporation of this indicator into the Outcome Indicator Framework. This indicator remains classified as an ‘official statistic in development’ by the Office for National Statistics and relies on modelling rather than exact reporting of impact. We will continue to explore how the monitoring, measurement and reporting of these impacts can be further developed in future.
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