Effect of the Autumn Statement Measures on Women

The Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 was published on 25 November 2015. It set out departmental spending totals for each year from 2015/16 to 2019/20. It also made several other policy announcements including:

• Reversing the changes to tax credit taper rates and thresholds that had been announced in the Summer Budget
• Introducing an apprenticeship levy for businesses with a payroll of over £3 million, from July 2017
• Various housing initiatives, including 400,000 new affordable housing starts by 2020

Attached to this page is the Library’s Summary of the Outcome of the Spending Review/Autumn Statement 2015, and the Library’s Briefing on Women and the Economy.

Also attached is some collected background material:

• EnGender’s Gender edit of the Spending Review/Autumn Statement

• The Fawcett Society’s analysis of the Spending Review

• The Women’s Budget Group analysis

HM Treasury also produced an Impact on Equalities analysis of the Spending Review which includes some information on the expected impact by gender.