Open Letter: A joint letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Ahead of the Spring Budget
A joint letter with the Stop the Squeeze campaign.
UK Budget Assessment
This briefing provides a summary of the gender impact of the 2016 Autumn Statement.
The Chancellor pledged in his Autumn Statement to build a country and economy that ‘works for everyone’. Yet, despite requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), the government did not provide systematic evidence of how different groups in society are impacted by the measures that were announced.
The Women’s Budget Group (WBG) is an independent, not-for-profit think tank that has scrutinised the gender impact of social and economic policy decisions of successive governments for more than two decades.
This briefing provides a summary of the gender impact of the 2016 Autumn Statement. It puts the changes announced in the AFS in the context of changes since 2010, some of which are yet to be fully implemented, and projects the impact forward to 2020.
A joint letter with the Stop the Squeeze campaign.
The We Are The Economy campaign calls for investment and budget prioritisation of essential services.
Ahead of the 2018 Autumn Budget, we’ve put together a briefing on the state of maternity, paternity and parental leave in the UK.
Equality Impact Assessments can improve decision-making and and show if public bodies have considered equality