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.
The UK WBG has written a background briefing on the key policy issues having an impact on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).
A pre-budget briefing by the Women’s Budget Group
A Pre budget briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group on 'Childcare, gender and Covid-19' - Spring 2021
An open letter ahead of the Autumn Statement (2023) urging the chancellor to make our tax system more fair and efficient.