I do not mind saying that, when we published the draft plan in January 2017, that area was not as fully fleshed out as I had hoped it would be. We have done a lot of work on monitoring and evaluation, and we will continue to do that work.
We have done some advance work to show the UKCCC how we are planning to develop the framework for monitoring and evaluation. We did that by going to that committee early and demonstrating, particularly with the electricity sector, how we might set some metrics and, crucially, how we would properly embed them in the plan and in the policies that sit in the plan for each of the sectors.
In February, when we produce the final plan, I hope that you will see a well-embedded set of metrics that will allow you to monitor and evaluate how we are doing in the future. That is very much an on-going process. I have mentioned the energy efficiency plan that we are bringing together, and the current assumption is that, when we produce the final plan, we will do something in May to launch the final energy efficiency plan.
Alongside developing a policy, we will consider how we will measure it. In each sector, there is a live process of considering ways in which we can track progress against the things that we say are important. In the future, we will do that by producing an annual report, which we plan to do in October this year.
It is difficult to talk about how each of those things will look until the committee sees the plan itself. However, we have a good set of metrics and they are timely, so the committee will be able to see, on most occasions and in most sectors, when we are off track and when we are on track. You will be able to track that annually, at least, and I am sure that the committee will be interested in doing that in the future.
The process is on-going and, in that sense, there is a role for the committee in defining how members want to scrutinise those measures. I am sure that you will want to return to that once you have seen the final plan.
Again, there has been a stakeholder process alongside these things; therefore, we think that the metrics and forms of evaluation will mean something to each of the key stakeholders in each of the sectors. I hope that the process is live in the sense that we do not set these metrics and then let them go. As the proposals and policies in those sectors develop, we will develop the monitoring and evaluation framework. The plan is a very live thing, but I think that you will be happier in February, when you see that the framework has improved since we spoke last year.
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