Spring Budget 2023 Pre-Budget Briefings
Ahead of the 2023 Spring Budget, our briefings set out the impact of current policies, with an emphasis on the cost-of-living crisis.
UK Policy Briefing
Our series of briefings on the gender impact of policy in 12 distinct areas ahead of the Autumn Budget 2017.
• The government spends £9 billion a year on tax reliefs for non-pension saving and this is expected to have risen by almost another £1 billion since the introduction of the Lifetime ISA. This is a regressive use of taxpayers’ money that only benefits people who can, in any case, afford to save.
• Evidence shows that women, once they have children, are more likely than men to have little or nothing in the way of savings and investments. This is due to both immediate and persistent effects of the work-life balance they must typically juggle in order to care for children and also frail adult family members.
• The £9 to £10 billion for savings-related tax reliefs would be better spent on improving the provision of affordable, good quality childcare, promoting flexible working in higher-paid jobs and measures that foster a move away from the current gendered distribution of unpaid work.
Ahead of the 2023 Spring Budget, our briefings set out the impact of current policies, with an emphasis on the cost-of-living crisis.
In today's Autumn Statement, the Chancellor chose a pre-election tax giveaway that will benefit men more than women.
A Pre Budget briefing from the Young Women’s Trust and Women’s Budget Group on 'Covid-19 and economic challenges for young women' - Spring 2021
Women's Budget Group respond to the Spring Statement