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UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) inquiry

Inquiry

The International Development Committee (IDC) identifies serious failings in the preparation and presentation of UK’s first Voluntary National Review of progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The UK has taken a long time to get around to producing a VNR (some countries have produced two since 2015) and so expectations were naturally that much higher, and the disappointment that much greater. The Government had 19 months between committing to a VNR and producing it. Despite this, the timeline was squeezed and most of the work – and virtually all of the engagement activity – was left to the last few months, preventing stakeholders from meaningfully engaging in, or influencing, the final report.

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Past events

Wednesday 26 June 2019
3:00pm Public
UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) inquiry - Oral evidence 26 June 2019
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Tuesday 11 June 2019
10:00am Public
UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) inquiry - Oral evidence 11 June 2019
Room 16, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 14 May 2019
9:40am Public
UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) inquiry - Oral evidence 14 May 2019
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Tuesday 19 March 2019
3:00pm Public
UK progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) inquiry - Oral evidence 19 March 2019
The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Contact us

  • Email: indcom@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 1223/3285 (general enquiries) |0207 219 8969 (media enquiries)
  • Address: International Development Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA