Sustainable Budgeting

EDM number 573 in 2010-12, proposed by Duncan Hames on 20/07/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Economic situation.

That this House believes that sustainability should be at the heart ofdecisions made in the Comprehensive Spending Review; further believes that to avoid leaving unsustainable costs for the next generation, public spending should make the most efficient use of the UK's financial, social and environmental capital; and urges all public bodies to adopt the sustainability principles of developing sustainability skills, improving health and well-being, reducing inequalities, cutting resource use, supporting low carbon economies, reducing high carbon travel, using local goods and services, reviving life support systems, being inclusive and thinking long-term contained in the SustNav toolkit published online by Sustainability South-West.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.