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.
WBG's response to recent reports suggesting that the Treasury is considering expanding the current early years offer for parents.
A briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group on the gender impact of measures announced in the 2015 Budget.
A briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group on the gender impact of measures announced in the 2014 Budget.
In today's Spring Budget, the Chancellor announced tax give-aways that benefit men over women and the better off rather than those most in need.