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John Lewis Partnership plc Annual Report and Accounts 2015


Independent assurance statement Summary for Annual Report and Accounts 2015


John Lewis Partnership plc (the ‘Partnership’) commissioned DNV GL Business Assurance Services UK Limited (‘DNV GL’) to undertake independent assurance of the Partnership’s sustainability performance as published in the Environment and Community Performance sections in its Annual Report and Accounts 2015 on pages 57–59, 66–67 and 74–75 and in the Our Environment and Our Community documents published on its website (together the ‘Sustainability Content’). Our assurance covered the reporting period 26 January 2014 – 31 January 2015. The review of financial and Partner data from the Annual Report and Accounts 2015 was not within the scope of our work.


For our full assurance statement, please see the Partnership website www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/performanceandreporting.


We performed our work using DNV GL’s assurance methodology VeriSustainTM, which is based on our professional experience and international assurance best practice, including reference to the International Standard on Assurance Engagements 3000 (Revised), ‘Assurance Engagements Other Than Audits and Reviews of Historical Financial Information’ and the AA1000 Assurance standard (2008).


We evaluated the Sustainability Content for adherence to the VeriSustainTM Principles (the ‘Principles’) of stakeholder inclusiveness, materiality, responsiveness, completeness, neutrality and reliability.


We evaluated the following sustainability performance data using the reliability principle together with the Partnership’s Basis of Reporting (www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/performanceandreporting), which sets out how the sustainability performance data are measured, recorded and reported:


a Community; a Operational waste; a Transport; a Water; a Energy consumption; and a GHG emissions.


The specific sustainability performance data which have been assured by DNV GL are indicated.


We planned and performed our work to obtain the evidence we considered necessary to provide a basis for our assurance opinion. We are providing a ‘limited level’ of assurance. A ‘reasonable level’ of assurance would have required additional work at headquarters and site level to gain further evidence to support the basis of our assurance opinion.


On the basis of the work undertaken, nothing came to our attention to suggest that the Sustainability Content does not properly describe the Partnership’s adherence to the Principles. In terms of reliability of the sustainability performance data in scope, nothing came to our attention to suggest that these data have not been properly collated from information reported at operational level, nor that the assumptions used were inappropriate.


For and on behalf of DNV GL Business Assurance Services UK Limited London, UK


16 April 2015


Tracy Oates


Mark Line


Principal Consultant and Lead Assurer Senior Principal Consultant and Reviewer UK Sustainability, DNV GL – Business Assurance


UK Sustainability, DNV GL – Business Assurance


DNV GL Business Assurance Services UK Limited is part of DNV GL – Business Assurance, a global provider of certification, verification, assessment and training services, helping customers to build sustainable business performance. www.dnvgl.com


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