Important and relevant information re revising National Performance Framework

Revising Scotland’s National Performance Framework.

I have just received this highly relevant and important message from Beth Stratford, Sustainable Economics Campaigner for Friends of the Earth Scotland.  I would be grateful if all supporters of the campaign read the message below and the briefing it refers to and considered adding their support by 9 September, as requested below.

Hi Eric,

As you might have gathered Scottish Government is currently ‘refreshing’ its National Performance Framework (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/11/13092240/9 ).

While there are not plans for any public consultation to inform this process of revision, we feel the NPF is too important a document not to take account of thoughts, views and suggestions from outside government.

More than that, we want to use this opportunity to put pressure on government departments and policy makers to recognise that economic growth is only a means to an end, and that Scotland’s ability to flourish is underpinned by a much broader range of factors, including wealth distribution and environmental quality.

To this end, WWF, Friends of the Earth Scotland and Oxfam have prepared this briefing for MSPs and government officials, setting out some key concerns with the NPF’s current (narrow) focus on economic targets and indicators and suggesting some ways in which it could be improved.

We will be collecting signatories over the next couple of weeks, and aiming to have the briefing ready to send to MSPs in their second week back after recess.

If you could forward this on to organisations that might be interested in signing the briefing we’d be delighted.  Anyone interested in signing up needs to let me (bstratford@foe-scotland.org.uk) know by COB Friday the 9th of September.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact myself, Dan or Katherine (all of our contact details are at the bottom of the briefing).

Many thanks!

Beth