Spring Budget 2024: Taxation and Gender
Analysis, UK Budget Assessments, UK Policy Briefings
A pre-budget briefing from the Women’s Budget Group
Updated analysis: Early Years Education and Childcare funding shortfall
In March 2023, the Chancellor announced the expansion of funded childcare for children aged 9 months to 2 years from working families, with an investment of £4.2bn in 2025/26, once the roll-out of the policy is fully in place. With the information available at that...
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Covid-19 and Economic Challenges for Disabled Women
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
View and download the full briefing here. Key points: There are 14 million disabled people in the UK: 20% of men and 23% of women are disabled. Overall, 36% of households in the UK have a disabled person. 37.7% of disabled mothers have struggled to feed their...
Taxation and Gender
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
View and download the full briefing here. Key points: Tax is the necessary financial contribution that individuals and companies make to a well-functioning society. Women tend to benefit particularly from the public spending that tax can be used to finance. The...
Social Security, Gender and Covid-19
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
View and download the full briefing here. Key points: The coronavirus pandemic has heighted the need for a social security system which provides protection against risk as households on Universal Credit increased by 1.7 million from February – June 2020. Food bank...
Policy Briefings on Coronavirus and Inequalities
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
Ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2020, the following briefings set out the gender impact of coronavirus on different groups of women and policies. They make recommendations for investments and policies to promote gender equality for women in all their...
Housing, Gender and Covid-19
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
View and download the full briefing here. Key points: At the start of the Covid-19 crisis, the government suspended evictions for rental tenants. Local authorities have identified nearly 500,000 people at high risk of being evicted following end of this measure in...
Local Government, Gender and Covid-19
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
View and download the full briefing here. Key points: Women and girls rely disproportionately on services provided by local authorities because they still do the majority of unpaid child/care work and therefore rely on local services to support themselves and their...
Household Debt, Gender and Covid-19
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
View and download the full briefing here. Key points: Before the coronavirus pandemic women, especially low-paid, disabled and Black, Asian and ethnic minority women, were more likely than men to be in debt: 61% of those getting into debt to purchase everyday...
Covid-19 and Economics Challenges for Migrant Women
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
View and download the full briefing here. Key points: Migrant women have been vital key workers during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Migrants are concentrated in care roles, for example 37% are registered nurses and 16% of the social care workforce are migrants.[1]...
Health Inequalities and Covid-19
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
View and download the full policy briefing here. Key points: Growth in NHS spending slowed from 2010-2019 to 1.6%, down from an average of 3.7% each year since it began in 1948. The health, social care and social work sectors are large employment sectors within the...
Childcare, Gender and Covid-19
Nov 23, 2020 | UK Policy Briefings
Policy briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group and the New Economics Foundation. View and download the full policy briefing here. Key points: High quality, accessible and affordable early childhood education and care is an investment in essential social...
HMRC data prompts concern of ‘gender furlough gap’
Nov 20, 2020 | Analysis, Blog, UK Policy Briefings
View and download the policy briefing here. Key statistics: Data from HMRC[1] shows women are more likely than men to have been furloughed: Women were the majority (52.1%) of workers put on furlough across the UK March – August 2020. Roughly 133,000 more women were...
Inequalities in academia – impact on early career researchers
Nov 11, 2020 | Analysis, Reports
As the COVID-19 pandemic first hit and lockdowns began around the world, there emerged a constant stream of reports, articles and briefings, highlighting the impact of Covid-19 on gender equality. Think-pieces were written from the perspective of parents finding it...
Creating a Caring Economy: A Call to Action
Oct 20, 2020 | Analysis, Reports
This report explores how we can build back better after coronavirus through exploring what kind of world do we want to create? What kind of economy do we want to make?
The Case for Sustainable Funding for Women’s Centres
Oct 19, 2020 | Analysis, Reports
Women’s Centres are specialist community-based support services for women facing multiple disadvantages, including women involved in or at risk of involvement in the criminal justice system. The report, The Case for Sustainable Funding for Women’s Centres highlights...
Submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review Representation
Oct 14, 2020 | Consultation Responses
October 2020
Submission to the Treasury Committee inquiry: Tax after coronavirus
Oct 14, 2020 | Consultation Responses
October 2020
Submission to Economic Affairs Committee Employment and Covid-19 inquiry
Oct 14, 2020 | Consultation Responses
September 2020
Submission to the Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry on Funding and Workforce
Oct 13, 2020 | Consultation Responses
September 2020
Submission to the Treasury Inquiry into Decarbonisation and Green Finance
Oct 13, 2020 | Consultation Responses
September 2020
Submission to the Covid-19 Committee inquiry on Life Beyond Covid
Oct 13, 2020 | Consultation Responses
August 2020
Submission to the BEIS inquiry on post-pandemic growth
Oct 13, 2020 | Consultation Responses
June 2020
Response to the Winter Economic Plan
Sep 24, 2020 | Analysis, UK Policy Briefings
You can download our statement here. The Chancellor’s Winter Economic Plan launched yesterday is a welcome recognition that the Government needs to act to avoid mass unemployment. However, the design of the major intervention, the Job Support Scheme, is severely...
Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into Human Rights Implications of Coronavirus
Aug 20, 2020 | Consultation Responses
The UK Women's Budget Group has made a submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry 'The Government's response to COVID-19: human rights implications.' You can read our submission here. You can read more about the inquiry here.
Submission to the Treasury Select Committee inquiry into the Economic Impact of Coronavirus
Aug 20, 2020 | Consultation Responses
The Women’s Budget Group has submitted written evidence to the Treasury Select Committee on the Economic Impact of Coronavirus. You can read read more about the consultation here. You can download our submission here.
Parenting and Covid-19
Aug 20, 2020 | Reports
This research by Women's Budget Group, The Fawcett Society, London School of Economics and Queen Mary's University London sets out the experiences of parents at the height of lockdown. It comprises analysis of data from a survey of 1,424 parents of under-11s conducted...
Submission to Office for Tax Simplification on Capital Gains Tax Review
Aug 2, 2020 | Consultation Responses
The UK Women’s Budget Group has responded to the Office for Tax Simplification consultation on Capital Gains Tax Review. You can read our response here You can read the report here
Covid-19 Report- The Impact on Women in Coventry
Jul 9, 2020 | Reports
This report explores the key gendered impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on women in the UK, with a focus on the city of Coventry.
Submission to the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum 2020
Jul 1, 2020 | Consultation Responses
June 2020
A Care-Led Recovery from Coronavirus
Jun 30, 2020 | Reports
The case for investment in care as a better post-pandemic economic stimulus than investment in construction.
Submission: Coronavirus and the Gendered Economic Impact
Jun 23, 2020 | Consultation Responses
The UK Women's Budget Group has made a submission to the Women and Equalities Select Committee inquiry into the unequal impact of Coronavirus: the gendered economic impact. You can read more about the inquiry here. You can read our submission here. In July 2020, the...