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.
This budget analysis examines the Autumn Financial Statement 2012 and Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill 2013.
Ahead of the 2023 Spring Budget, our briefings set out the impact of current policies, with an emphasis on the cost-of-living crisis.
The WBG criticises proposed spending cuts, warning of their impact on already stretched public services.