UK Budget Assessment
Response to Budget 2015 – The WBG calls for rebuilding the foundations before fixing the roof.
After five years of public sector cuts and welfare reforms – which the Women’s Budget Group has argued time and again have had a disproportionate impact on women, particularly low income women, single mothers, and single women pensioners – the final budget of the Coalition government offered little in the way of succour.
Once again the Budget has featured tax measures which predominantly benefit men alongside the threat of yet more spending cuts to come which will disproportionately disadvantage women.
This a joint response from the UK Women’s Budget Group, Maternity Action and the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW).
A pre-budget briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group – October 2021
While physical infrastructure receives attention, there's a lack of focus on affordable housing, disproportionately affecting women.
WBG responds to the HM Treasury's pre-budget report, calling for more explicit analysis of the effect on women of its key proposals.