SUSTAINABLE BUDGETING

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That this House believes that sustainability should be at the heart of decisions 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.