Sustainability in the spending review

20 Jul 2016 12:47 PM

This briefing responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee that we review how the 2015 spending review took account of environmental issues.

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This briefing responds to a request from the Environmental Audit Committee that we review how the 2015 spending review took account of environmental issues.

It covers:

• The significance of the spending review for meeting government’s environmental objectives
• How effectively Treasury designed and implemented the spending review to ensure environmental issues were considered
• The potential impact of spending review decisions, to the extent that it can be known at this stage
• The Carbon Capture and Storage competition bid and cancellation decision as a case study.