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Measuring Wellbeing

Non-inquiry session

The COVID-19  pandemic clearly poses a number of risks to (and opportunities for) the long-term economic and societal wellbeing of the UK, and this has increased calls from some quarters for the UK Government to rethink how it measures ‘success’ and to adopt a wellbeing measure (or measures) as an alternative to GDP. The Committee wants to consider what that might look like in practice, and how the UK Government could move from collecting data on wellbeing to making improving wellbeing a key priority when making policy and spending decisions.

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Past events

Tuesday 13 April 2021
10:00am Private
Private meeting 13 April 2021
Virtual meeting
Tuesday 23 March 2021
9:45am Public
Measuring Wellbeing - Oral evidence 23 March 2021
9:45am
  • Marie Brousseau-Navarro (Director of Policy, Legislation and Innovation at Future Generations Commissioner for Wales)
  • Prof Jan-Emmanuel De Neve (Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy at Saïd Business School at University of Oxford)
  • Carrie Exton (Head of Well-Being Data Insights and Policy Practice at OECD Centre for Well-Being, Inclusiveness, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity)
  • Jennifer Wallace (Head of Policy at Carnegie UK Trust)
Virtual Meeting (webcast)

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