Submission to HCLG Committee on The Spending Review and Local Government Finance
The UK WBG made a submission to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry on ‘The Spending Review and Local Government Finance'
UK Policy Briefing
A briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group on the key policy priorities for the upcoming Spending Review from the Women and Equalities sector.
Updated in August 2019 ahead of the Spending Review in September 2019.
The Chancellor has promised that ‘austerity is coming to an end’. The 2019 Spending review is a significant test of what that promise will mean in real terms, particularly for women who have borne the brunt of austerity policies since 2010.
Women have been disproportionately impacted by changes to taxes, benefits and public spending, with BAME women and disabled women hardest hit. 1 This is the result of structural inequalities which mean women earn less, own less and have more responsibility for unpaid care and domestic work. 2
Some of the key policy areas affecting women are:
The Spending Review presents a critical opportunity for the Government to reverse its disastrous austerity programme. This briefing will address some of the key policy issues affecting women and highlights changes which we would like to see in the 2019 Spending Review. It starts with some over-arching issues before going on to discuss policy issues in more detail.
WBG and Runnymede Trust (October 2017) Intersecting inequalities: The impact of austerity on Black and Minority Ethnic women in the UK (http://bit.ly/2jLave5) & WBG (2018) Disabled Women and Austerity Available at:
See WBG Budget analysis available online: Available at: https://bit.ly/2tq3LE5
The UK WBG made a submission to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee inquiry on ‘The Spending Review and Local Government Finance'
The choice for our economy is not public investment or economic growth. It is public investment and economic growth.
Gender impact assessment of the Spring Budget 2017
We urge the Chancellor to increase benefits in line with September CPI inflation as previously planned in his Autumn Statement.