reports & responses

Please note, WBG work on Welfare Reform can now be found under 'Briefings'

2011 WBG Responses

• The Impact on Women of the Autumn Financial Statement 2011
• Autumn Financial Statement Press Release: Jobs for the Boys and Again Women Pay
• Blog post on Universal Credit on the LSE Politics and Policy Blog
• Blog post for Carer's Week on the LSE Equality and Diversity Blog
• You can listen to and download copies of WBG presentations made at 'Budgeting for Gender Equality: is government economic policy fair to women?' (11th May 2011) from LSE Public Events
• An excerpt from 'The Impact on Women of Budget 2011' on the LSE British Politics and Policy Blog
• Dr Claire Annesley speaking about budgeting for gender equality on BBC Women's Hour
• Dr Jay Ginn's work on Moving the State Pension Age Goalposts for Women: the broader context
• The Impact on Women of Budget 2011

2010 WBG Responses

• Written Evidence Submitted by the WBG - White Paper on Universal Credit - Work and Pensions Committee
• WBG Response to Coalition Government's Spending Review 2010
• WBG Response to Emergency Budget June 2010
• WBG Report on Budget Proposals in Party Manifestos May 2010

2008 WBG Responses

• HM Treasury's Budget 2008
• Evidence from the UK WBG to the Canadian Standing Committee on the Status of Women

2007 WBG Responses

• HM Treasury's Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review 2007
• HM Treasury's Pre-Budget Report 2006

2006 WBG Responses

• A Gender Lens on PSAs
• DWP Pensions White Paper
• DTI Additional Paternity Leave and Pay consultation
• EOC Code of Practice consultation on the forthcoming public sector duty to promote gender equality
• HM Treasury's Budget 2006
• HM Treasury's Pre-Budget Report 2005
• Pensions Commission A New Pensions Settlement for the Twenty-First Century
• Department for Work and Pensions Opportunity for All
• Women and Equality Unit's Advancing Equality for Men and Women: Government proposals to introduce a public sector duty to promote gender equality

2005 WBG Responses

• Department for Work and Pensions 16th Households Below Average Income Report
• Hansard Society consultation on parliamentary scrutiny of expenditure
• Department of Health Social Care Green Paper Independence, well-being and choice
• Department for Trade and Industry's Consultation Work and Families: Choice and Flexibility
• HM Treasury Budget 2005
• WBG Report: Women's and children's poverty: making the links
• Women and Work Commission
• HM Treasury, Department for Education and Skills, Department for Work and Pensions, and the Department for Trade and Industry's Choice for parents, the best start for children: a ten year strategy for childcare
• Pensions: Challenges and Choices, The First Report of the Pensions Commission
• HM Treasury Pre-Budget Report 2004

2004 WBG Responses

• HM Treasury Allsopp Review of Economic Statistics
• HM Treasury Budget 2004
• Department for Trade and Industry's Working Time - Widening the Debate
• Office for National Statistics (ONS) Atkinson Review Interim Report

2003 WBG Responses

• HM Treasury Pre Budget Report, 2003
• HM Treasury Childcare Review submission
• Department for Work and Pension's 14th Households Below Average Income Report
• HM Treasury & Department of Trade and Industry paper Balancing work and family life: enhancing choice and suport for parents
• HM Treasury Budget 2003 (182k)
• Department for Work and Pensions Green Paper Simplicity, security and choice: Working and saving for retirement (171k)
• House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs Call for Evidence on the Aspects of the Economics of an Ageing Population (171k)
• House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee Childcare Inquiry (129k)
• Department for Trade and Industries' Accounting for People Taskforce consultation (83k)
• HM Treasury consultation on the Futurebuilders fund for Voluntary and Community Sector Public Service Delivery (81k)

2002 WBG Responses

• HM Treasury Budget 2002 (105k)
• HM Treasury Pre Budget Report, 2002 (168k)
• Department for Work and Pension's 13th Households Below Average Income Report (74k)
• Department for Trade and Industry Report Full and Fulfilling Employment: Creating the Labour Market of the Future (79k)
• Department for Work and Pensions consultation on Modernising Annuities (101k)
• HM Treasury consultation on a revised Green Book - Including Gender Impact Analysis (68k)
• Department for Work and Pensions consultation on Measuring Child Poverty (94k)
• Inland Revenue consultation on the Working Tax Credit (Child Care Charges) Regulations (55k)

2001 WBG Responses

• HM Treasury Budget 2001 (64k)
• HM Treasury Pre-Budget Report, 2001 (165k)
• Government Green Paper Work and Parents Competitiveness and choice (143k)
• Inland Revenue consultation New Tax Credits: Supporting families, making work pay and tackling poverty (165k)
• Social Security Select Committee's inquiry into plans for an Integrated Child Credit

2000 WBG Responses

• HM Treasury Pre Budget Report, 2000 (165k)