Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal wellbeing in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal wellbeing in the last 12 months.

The Cabinet Office measures personal wellbeing through the annual Civil Service People Survey using the same national statistics that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) use for the UK population as a whole. Responses to this informed the Health and Wellbeing Strategy which was signed off by the Cabinet Office People Committee in September 2018

In the past year Cabinet Office has run over a dozen campaigns and initiatives to improve personal wellbeing with over 2000 staff taking part.