WBG’s full response to the Spring Budget 2024
Analysis, UK Budget Assessments
In his opening statement in the 2024 Spring Budget, the Chancellor expressed confidence in the UK's economic trajectory, citing improved confidence in business and a turnaround in inflation and growth. However, this optimistic assessment is a stark contrast with the...
Spring Budget 2024: Taxation and Gender
Analysis, UK Budget Assessments, UK Policy Briefings
A pre-budget briefing from the Women’s Budget Group
Analysis
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Spring Budget 2022: Social security and gender
Mar 9, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“Social security has a vital role in securing economic independence for all women, lessening their vulnerability to domestic and sexual abuse and violence. Recent social security changes have disproportionately disadvantaged women, especially BAME women, disabled...
Spring Budget 2022: Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
Mar 9, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“More than one in four women will experience domestic abuse during their lifetime, and 20% of women have suffered sexual assault since the age of 16.” Read and download the full briefing here More than one in four women will experience domestic abuse during their...
Spring Budget 2022: Taxation and gender
Mar 9, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“Women tend to benefit particularly from the public spending financed by tax. Because they are more likely to take up caring roles, they are also particularly vulnerable to cuts in state spending.” Read and download the full briefing here Women tend to benefit...
Spring Budget 2022: Social care and gender
Mar 9, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“Regional and income-based inequalities mean that the poorest local authorities are the ones with the greatest social care needs.” Read and download the full briefing here The crisis in social care didn’t start with the pandemic, nor with austerity. Even before the...
Spring Budget 2022: Women and employment
Mar 9, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
Households in the UK are projected to experience the sharpest decline in living standards since records began in the 1940s. This cost of living squeeze will hit hardest among those on the lowest incomes, the majority of whom are women. Read and download the full...
Spring Budget 2022: Housing and gender
Mar 8, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
The evidence suggests that women are more affected than men by housing unaffordability, unsafe conditions and overcrowding. Read and download the full briefing here The economic crisis caused by the pandemic has sharpened the impact of structural weaknesses in the UK...
Spring Budget 2022: Health inequalities and gender
Mar 8, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
The healthcare sector has been at the forefront of the fight against Covid. The pressures on the NHS have been immense and issues around funding and staff shortages have come to the fore. Read and download the full briefing here The healthcare sector has been at the...
Spring Budget 2022: Economic challenges for single mothers
Mar 8, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
Single parents - 90% of whom are women - are both the breadwinner and the primary carer for their children. Caring responsibilities and the lack of societal childcare support are at the core of single mothers’ economic struggle. Read and download the full briefing...
Spring Budget 2022: Childcare and gender
Mar 8, 2022 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
High quality, accessible and affordable early childhood education and care is an investment in essential social infrastructure, with the potential to deliver significant levelling up benefits Read and download the full briefing here High quality, accessible and...
Universal quality social care: transforming adult social care in England
Feb 18, 2022 | Reports
Download the full report here Successive governments have done little or nothing to tackle worsening conditions in social care, for either recipients of care or care workers despite promises to ‘fix’ the sector. On 1 December, the government set out a strategy...
A shorter working week as part of a green caring economy
Feb 7, 2022 | Analysis, FGND Blog, Reports
UK Feminist Green New Deal Policy Papers Read the full policy paper here. In this report, we argue that a shorter working week, as part of a wider set of policy changes, can promote gender-equal distributions in paid work, unpaid work, and income, while facilitating a...
UK WBG response to the Levelling-Up White Paper
Feb 2, 2022 | Analysis, Blog, News, Press Releases
UK Women’s Budget Group Response to Levelling Up White Paper 2nd February 2022 The Government’s White Paper, published today, sets out some positive plans for levelling up. However it fails to acknowledge that much inequality, including regionally, has...
UK WBG response to calls from Cabinet to delay NIC increase
Jan 25, 2022 | Analysis, Blog, News, Press Releases
Today cabinet and backbenchers have called for a delay to the implementation of the rise of National Insurance Contributions (NICs), planned for April this year. The planned increase, announced last September as part of the Government’s Health and Social Care...
Built Environment Committee: Meeting the UK’s Housing Demands
Dec 8, 2021 | Analysis, Consultation Responses
The Women's Budget Group submitted a response to the Built Environment Select Committee on Meeting the UK's Housing Demands in September 2021. You can find our response here. Summary of WBG's response: Housing is fundamental to life, security, and wellbeing as well as...
Treasury Committee: Inquiry on an Equal Recovery
Dec 8, 2021 | Analysis, Consultation Responses
The Women's Budget Group and Just Fair have submitted a response to the Treasury Select Committee Inquiry on an Equal Recovery in July 2021. You can read our response here. Summary of WBG's and Just Fair's response: The economic impact of the crisis is most affecting...
Justice Committee: Inquiry on Women in Prison
Dec 8, 2021 | Analysis, Consultation Responses
The Women's Budget Group submitted a response to the Justice Select Committee on Women in Prison in June 2021. You can read our response here. Summary of WBG's submission: Women affected by the criminal justice system (CJS) often have a range of multiple, complex...
Treasury Committee: Inquiry on Jobs, growth, and productivity after coronavirus
Dec 8, 2021 | Analysis, Consultation Responses
The Women's Budget Group submitted a response to the Treasury Committee Inquiry on Jobs, growth, and productivity after coronavirus in May 2021. You can read our response here. Summary of WBG's response: The Women’s Budget Group believes that equality, wellbeing, and...
The Government’s Social Care White Paper: ‘a good vision without a meaningful strategy for delivery’
Dec 1, 2021 | Analysis, Blog, News, Press Releases
Initial response from the Women’s Budget Group This afternoon the Government published its long-awaited White Paper, setting out its 10-year vision for adult social care. The paper sets out a vision that many of us would share; to provide ‘support to those who need it...
APPG on Poverty: Response to inquiry on in-work poverty
Nov 18, 2021 | Blog, Consultation Responses
Oral evidence given by WBG member Fran Bennett, for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty for their inquiry into in-work poverty. 16th November 2021 The definition and causes of in-work poverty (IWP) are complicated. IWP is usually measured on a household...
Gender Analysis of the Cumulative Distributional Impact of 2022 Tax and Benefit Changes and Inflation
Nov 17, 2021 | Analysis, UK Budget Assessments
READ OUR ANALYSIS HERE. Women’s Budget Group calculations show that none of the changes announced in the 2021 Autumn Budget, including the rise in the minimum wage and changes to UC rules for those with earnings, are sufficient to compensate people on average for the...
A feminist analysis of Sheffield’s plans to build back better
Nov 8, 2021 | Analysis, Blog, UK Policy Briefings
Read and download the briefing here The Sheffield City Region's Renewal Action Plan outlines Sheffield's plans for a green economic recovery from the impacts of Covid. In this briefing, Keziah Spaine of WBG's Research and Policy Team argues that while its detailed...
Briefing Note: A Spending Review for a Green and Care-led Recovery
Nov 5, 2021 | Analysis, Blog, UK Policy Briefings
This Briefing Note lays out the arguments for higher borrowing to tackle urgent spending priorities, and analyses how this investment could be spent to achieve the greatest impacts, including a detailed proposal for a Green Spending Package. View and download the full...
A lack of ambition: our response to the Autumn 2021 Budget and Spending Review
Nov 2, 2021 | Analysis, UK Budget Assessments
Our full gendered analysis of the Autumn Budget can be read and downloaded as a PDF here Read the large print version here The autumn Budget and Spending Review marked a distinct change in direction away from austerity, and a tacit recognition that the cuts to public...
Autumn Budget 2021: Economic challenges for single mothers
Oct 26, 2021 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
This is a joint briefing from Women’s Budget Group and Gingerbread “Single parents - 90% of whom are women - are both the breadwinner and the primary carer for their children. Caring responsibilities are at the core of single mothers’ economic...
Autumn Budget 2021: Maternity, paternity and parental leave
Oct 22, 2021 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“The birth of a first child is a pivotal moment in how couples organise responsibility for childcare throughout their lives and is foundational in forming and perpetuating gender inequality.” Read and download the full briefing here UK maternity, paternity and...
Autumn Budget 2021: Social care, gender and Covid-19
Oct 22, 2021 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“The proposed ‘cap and floor’ model for allocating care costs between individuals and the state will result in many people still going without the care they need to avoid paying its costs. Families, especially women, will continue to be relied on for providing...
Autumn Budget 2021: Women and employment in the recovery from Covid-19
Oct 22, 2021 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“The pandemic has caused an economic recession that has changed the employment landscape for everyone. However, it has led to an exacerbation of pre-existing inequalities which disproportionately impact women, young people, Black, Asian and minority ethnic...
Autumn Budget 2021 Pre-Budget Briefings
Oct 21, 2021 | UK Policy Briefings
Ahead of the Autumn 2021 Budget, the following pre-budget briefings set out the impact of current policies and of the Covid pandemic. They make recommendations for investments and policies to promote gender equality for women in all their diversity. View and download...
Autumn Budget 2021: Childcare, gender and Covid-19
Oct 21, 2021 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“The coronavirus pandemic threw into disarray a childcare sector which was already failing. This briefing summarises key issues - supply, access, quality and affordability - and analyses the impact of Covid.” Read and download the full briefing here Even before the...
Autumn Budget 2021: Taxation and gender
Oct 21, 2021 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
“Women tend to benefit particularly from the public spending financed by tax.” Read and download the full briefing here Women tend to benefit particularly from public spending financed by tax. Because they are more likely to take up caring roles, they are also...