Tory government 'would monitor social value of policies'

By Mathew Little, Third Sector Online, 13 May 2008

A Conservative government would enhance "social value" as well as economic efficiency, David Cameron said yesterday in a speech to the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

Delivering the CPRE annual lecture at the Royal United Services Institute in London, the Tory leader said he wanted to introduce new measures to assess the social impact of policy in the same way that environmental impacts were now considered. “The next Conservative government will attempt to establish a measure...

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