UK Budget Assessment
Budget Proposals in 2010 Party Manifestos – analysis
UK Women’s Budget Group Report on Budget Proposals in Party Manifestos, May 2010
Board
Janet Veitch
Chair
Janet Veitch works as a consultant in the UK and internationally on women’s rights and gender responsive budgeting, having worked for ten years for the UK Ministers for Women, first as head of gender mainstreaming and then as Director of the UK Women’s National Commission. She was a research assistant in the House of Lords and a specialist adviser to the Women and Equalities Select Committee. She is a founder member of the End Violence Against Women Coalition. She has previously served as Vice-Chair of Equally Ours, Chair of the Happy Baby Community for refugee mums, and as an associate adviser on gender for the British Council. She was awarded the OBE for services to women’s rights in 2011.