Recommendations
6. Defra
must use the results of [its] impact assessment audit to develop
the guidance further, and Defra and the Cabinet Office should
include challenging departments on such non-compliance as part
of its Business Plan reviews. (Paragraph 20)
7. Defra and the Cabinet
Office should now review departments' first-year Greening Government
Commitments performance, in order to extend the ambition of those
targets which already appear to be readily achievable. (Paragraph
26)
8. A commitment to
deliver on sustainable procurement should be in all departments'
Business Plans, including completing the revision of Government
Buying Standards. Defra and the Cabinet Office should identify
poor compliance on reporting sustainable procurement progress
during the Business Plan reviews and raise with the Treasury (who
set the Annual Report requirements) how poor performance should
be addressed. (Paragraph 30)
9. Defra and the Cabinet
Office, as well as the Treasury, need to take ownership of sustainability
reporting compliance, not least through their roles on the Greening
Government Commitments Sub-committee. (Paragraph 38)
10. The Government
should now explore the scope for, as well as potential additional
burdens of, introducing for the private sector elements of Government
departments' wider sustainability reporting requirements. (Paragraph
39)
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