New Sustainable Development Indicators
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The indicators are intended to provide an overview of national progress on key issues that are important economically, socially and environmentally in the long term and will be published on 18 July 2013.
Original consultation
Consultation description
Sustainable Development Indicators are used to measure national progress on key economic, social and environmental issues over time. They are intended to complement the National Wellbeing Measures published by the Office for National Statistics.
They are widely used outside of government by academics, non-governmental organisations and businesses.
This consultation provided the opportunity to comment on the choice and coverage of a new set of indicators.
You can also read about the proposals at: http://sd.defra.gov.uk/new-sd-indicators/.
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Published 24 July 2012Last updated 28 June 2013 + show all updates
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Changed tense of summary/detail wording and added government response and replaced the summary of response (the current one had a formatting issue).
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