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Beyond GDP
With support from Oxfam, we organised workshops to widen the debate about GDP
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WBG briefings, reports, budget assessments and consultation responses
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Consultation Response
10-year Modern Industrial Strategy
Our submission to the Business and Trade Select Committee Inquiry on the Industrial Strategy
Consultation Response
Local authority funding reform
Our response to local authority funding reform through the local government finance settlement
Consultation Response
WBG submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review 2025
We have submitted recommendations to the HM Treasury's 2025 Spending Review
Report
Women’s and Children’s Poverty: Making the Links
Breaking the Cycle of Child Poverty: A Call to Action
Consultation Response
Adult Social Care Reform: The Cost of Inaction
Our response to the Health and Social Care Committee inquiry on adult social care
Open Letter
Government Pension Review Delay
We have written to the Chancellor to express our disappointment at the Government's decision to delay Phase 2 of the Pensions Review
UK Policy Briefing
Embedding Gender Equality Across the Government
This briefing sets out the current state of women and equalities architecture in government
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Report
The Census and Feminism: How Census 2021 Data Benefits Feminist Analysis and Activism
A joint report by the Women's Budget Group and the Global Institute for Women's Leadership
UK Policy Briefing
A feminist approach to macroeconomics
This briefing sets out the principles of feminist approaches to macroeconomics
Open Letter
Government “must go further” on flexible working rights
The WBG signed a joint statement put forward by the Trades Union Congress on the Employment Relations Bill.
Open Letter
Together Against Charging: Trade Union and Migrant Org Statement
UNIONS & MIGRANT ORGANISATIONS’ STATEMENT – PUBLIC SECTOR PAY RISE
UK Policy Briefing
The two-child limit to means tested benefits
Briefing on the two-child limit from the Women’s Budget Group
Report
Gender Gaps in Access to Civil Legal Justice
A survey of support services in England and Wales.
Open Letter
Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch: Reconsider Announcements on Parental Leave
The WBG has signed a letter by the Fatherhood Institute calling on Kemi Badenoch to improve the UK’s statutory paternity and parental leave system.
Open Letter
Joint statement on ‘The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?’
The WBG has signed Positive Money’s joint statement calling for a genuinely inclusive national conversation on the future of money.
Toolkit
How to use Census 2021 data
These resources show how to use census data effectively
UK Policy Briefing
Why Wealth Tax is a Feminist Issue
We argue that the taxation of wealth can tackle gender inequality and raise public revenue to strengthen our social infrastructure.
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D Hirsch for CPAG (March 2023), the cost of child poverty in 2023, available at https://cpag.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/briefing/cost-child-poverty-2023
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TUC briefing (May 2022) available at https://www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/only-good-well-paid-work-route-out-poverty
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F Hobson for the House of Commons Library (April 2022) The impact of the two-child limit in Universal Credit, available at https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9301/
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WBG response to funding uplift (May 2023) available at https://wbg.org.uk/media/press-releases/wbg-welcomes-funding-boost-for-childcare-in-universal-credit-but-it-remains-insufficient-to-meet-actual-cost-of-childcare-today/
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WBG with Surviving Economic Abuse and the End Violence Against Women Coalition (June 2019) Benefits or Barriers, available at https://wbg.org.uk/analysis/benefits-or-barriers-making-social-security-work-for-survivors-of-violence-and-abuse-across-the-uks-four-nations/
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WBG and Runnymede Trust (2017) Intersecting Inequalities: The impact of austerity in Black and Minority Ethnic women in the UK
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WBG (September 2022) The Cost Crisis: a Gendered Analysis
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WBG (2023) Spring Budget 2023: Social security and gender
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The UK gender pay gap was 14.9% in December 2022; the EU average was 12.7% in 2021. Sources: Office for NaIonal StaIsIcs, 2022 and EU Monitor, 2023 (see References below)