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SDC's Watchdog barks for the first time
16th December 2005
The government's independent advisory body, the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), issues its first report on how well goverment is performing against its sustainability targets.
The SDC is the UK governments independent advisory body on sustainable development and is concerned with sustainability across all sectors including transport, energy and health. Chaired by Jonathon Porritt, the former director of Friends of the Earth, the commission has the ear of Tony Blair (UK Prime Minister), Rhodri Morgan (Welsh Assembly First Minister) and Jack McConnell (Scottish Parliament First Minister).
A new Watchdog section of the SDC website details the first report undertaken by the SDC to gauge the Governments success in meeting its sustainability targets.
The report can be read in a number of ways. Visitors to the site can download a number of PDF documents, including 60 second overviews, press releases, the full report as prepared by PricewaterHouse Coopers, departmental summaries and even the raw data that was collected to produce the report.
Or the visitor can read online summaries by department or target area. Check out the performance of the Inland Revenue, Customs and Excise or the Department for Work and Pensions.
This section of the site was put together rapidly by Fat Beehive at the request of the SDC once the report was compiled and checked in order to be ready for the public release of the report.
www.sd-commission.org.uk/watchdog/
