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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/cameron-to-propose-wellbeing-test.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Prime Minister David Cameron is set to announce that the nation's wellbeing is to be measured for the Government from next April" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-cameron-to-propose-wellbeing-test.jpg" alt="Prime Minister David Cameron is set to announce that the nation's wellbeing is to be measured for the Government from next April"/></a></p>
<p>The nation&#8217;s wellbeing is to be measured for the Government from next April so that ministers can help the British people attain &#8220;the good life,&#8221; David Cameron is set to announce.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister will insist that prosperity alone cannot deliver happiness and that the coalition must promote quality of life as well as economic growth.</p>
<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been asked to devise measures of progress and will lead a public debate about what matters most to people.</p>
<p>&#8220;From April next year we will start measuring our progress as a country, not just by how our economy is growing, but by how our lives are improving. Not just by our standard of living, but by our quality of life,&#8221; Mr Cameron is expected to say.</p>
<p>He will deny that the move means sidelining economic growth as the country tries to recover from the recession but insist that ministers need to take a broader perspective.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll continue to measure GDP as we&#8217;ve always done,&#8221; Mr Cameron will say. &#8220;But it is high time we admitted that, taken on its own, GDP is an incomplete way of measuring a country&#8217;s progress.&#8221;</p>
<p>He will quote the former US senator Robert Kennedy, who described how GDP &#8220;measures everything&#8230; except that which makes life worthwhile&#8221;.</p>
<p>The information gathered would give a &#8220;general picture of how life is improving&#8221; and help the country re-evaluate its priorities in life. Mr Cameron will say his goal in politics is to &#8220;make a better life for people&#8221; and insist that the Government can help improve wellbeing.</p>
<p>Citing international scholarship by economists and social scientists, he will add: &#8220;The contention is that just as we can create the climate for business to thrive &#8211; by cutting taxes, slashing red tape and so on &#8211; so we can create a climate in this country that is more family-friendly and more conducive to the good life.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why I reject the criticism that government policy has no role in this area. To those who say that all this sounds like a distraction from the serious business of government, I say finding out what will really improve lives and acting on it is the serious business of government.&#8221;</p>
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