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In 2017 Engender launched the Gender Matters Roadmap, which sets out the steps needed to move closer to women's equality in Scotland by 2030.
This gender edit of the Scottish Budget 2022 - 2023 compiles all references to women, gender and issues with implications for gender equality which appear in the document.
The Budget was introduced by Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Kate Forbes MSP on the 9th December 2021. This year’s focus was using Scotland’s finances to “tackle the climate emergency, support economic recovery and reduce inequalities.” Key announcements made in the run up to the Budget included a doubling of the Scottish Child Payment to £20. In her announcement, the Cabinet Secretary emphasised the limits of additional Covid-19 funds from the Treasury and stated that recovery measures had been incorporated into existing budget lines.
This gender edit examines the Budget in sequence, with emphasis added by Engender.
Date of publication: December 2021
This gender edit of the Scottish Government’s Budget 2020-2021 compiles all references to women, gender and issues with implications for gender equality which appear in the document.
The Budget was introduced by Public Finance Minister, Kate Forbes MSP, who noted that the Budget for 2020-2021 would follow a “bespoke” Budget process, agreed with the Finance Committee due to the delayed UK Budget to 11 March. The Minister stated that the budget represented the best estimate of minimum level of funding that will be available to the Scottish Government using provisional forecasts.
Date of Publication: Feb 2020
Filename: Gender-Edit-of-Scotlands-Budget-2020--2021.pdf | File size: 556KB | Tags: genderedit budgetThis document is a ‘gender edit’ guide to the Scottish Government Budget 2019-2020. It provides excerpts which refer directly to women and gender, but also captures sections on equalities and social justice where women and girls in Scotland would be directly impacted.
Date of publication: January 2019.
Filename: GENDER-EDIT-OF-THE-SCOTTISH-GOVERNMENT-BUDGET-2019-2020.pdf | File size: 376KB | Tags: genderedit genderbudgetanalysis faireconomy womensrightsThis document is a ‘gender edit’ guide to the Scottish Government Draft Budget 2018-19. It provides excerpts which refer directly to women and gender, but also captures sections on equalities and social justice where women and girls in Scotland would be directly impacted.
Date of publication: January 2018.
Filename: Engenders-Gender-Edit-of-Draft-Budget-2018-19.pdf | File size: 468KB | Tags: genderedit budget feministeconomicsOn March 8th 2019 the UN CEDAW Committee released their concluding observations following the UK examination in Geneva.
These concluding observations have been annotated by Engender with contextual information that may be of interest.
We have highlighted:
• Mentions of Scotland
• Concluding observation that reflects one of Engender’s key calls, either made through our Scotland shadow report or through the four-nations report produced with WEN Wales, NIWEP, and Women’s Resource Centre.
And added specific details which may be of interest.
Filename: Engender-annotated-concluding-observations-formatted.pdf | File size: 722KB | Tags: cedaw, gendereditThis document is a ‘gender edit’ guide to the Scottish Government Draft Budget 2016-17. It includes all extracts that refer directly to women and gender, and selected sections on equalities and social justice more broadly, where there are clear implications for women and girls in Scotland.
Date of publication: January 2017.
Filename: Engenders-Gender-Edit-of-the-Scottish-Government-Draft-Budget-2017-2018.pdf | File size: 299KB | Tags: genderedit budget feministeconomicsThis document is a ‘gender edit’ guide to the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government 2016-17. It includes all extracts that refer directly to women and gender, and selected text on issues where there are clear implications for women and girls in Scotland, such as social security and unpaid care. The Programme for Government confirms the Scottish Government’s legislative programme for the opening year of the parliamentary term and it is worth noting that many of the policy and funding commitments set out are not new announcements.
Date of publication: September 2016.
Filename: A-GENDER-EDIT-of-A-PLAN-FOR-SCOTLAND---THE-GOVERNMENTS-PROGRAMME-FOR-SCOTLAND-2016-17.pdf | File size: 493KB | Tags: genderedit politicsA gender edit of all of the five main party manifestos, which pulls out commitments on issues relating to women's equality.
Date of publication: April 2016.
Filename: Gender-edit-Holyrood-2016.pdf | File size: 422KB | Tags: genderedit holyrood2016A gender edit of the Women's Equality Party, RISE, and UKIP manifestos for the 2016 Holyrood elections.
Date of publication: April 2016.
Filename: Gender-edit-Holyrood-supplementary-2016.pdf | File size: 294KB | Tags: genderedit holyrood2016This document is a ‘gender edit’ guide to the UK Government’s Budget 2016. It includes all extracts that refer directly to women or gender, and selected policy announcements that have direct implications for women and girls in Scotland. Previously announced decisions, for instance exemption from the benefits cap for certain carers, or cuts to social security established in the Summer Budget and Autumn Statement 2015, are not included.
We point to explicitly gendered issues, rather than providing a gender analysis of the wider content or intersectional analysis of implications for disabled women and other groups. The UK Women’s Budget Group will publish a full gender assessment of this budget on 7 April.
Date of publication: March 2016.
This document is a ‘gender edit’ guide to the Scottish Government Draft Budget 2016-17. It includes all extracts that refer directly to women and gender, and selected sections on equalities and social justice more broadly, where there are clear implications for women and girls in Scotland. These include all references that directly relate to the calls we make in our Gender Matters manifesto for Holyrood 2016.
Date of publication: December 2015.
Filename: Engenders-Gender-edit-of-the-Scottish-Government-draft-budget-2016-17.pdf | File size: 438KB | Tags: genderedit budget feministeconomicsThis is a gender edit of the Autumn Statement 2015, which pulls out all of the most gendered commitments.
Date of publication: November 2015.
Filename: 1448551496_Gender-edit-UK-Goverment-SR-and-Autumn-Statement-2015.pdf | File size: 392KB | Tags: genderedit budget feministeconomicsA 'gender edit' guide to the Scottish Government's Programme for Government 2015-16.
Date of publication: September 2015.
Filename: 1509-PfG-2015-16-gender-edit.pdf | File size: 385KB | Tags: gendereditThis is a gender edit of the Summer Budget 2015, which pulls out all of the most gendered commitments.
Date of publication: July 2015.
Filename: 1507-Gender-edit-summer-budget.pdf | File size: 282KB | Tags: genderedit budget feministeconomicsA gender edit of the draft Scottish budget 2015-16. This document pulls out all of the mentions of women and gender, and descriptions of spending on programmes that are particularly relevant to women.
Date of publication: October 2014
Filename: Scottish-draft-budget-gender-edit-October-2014.pdf | File size: 506KB | Tags: genderedit budget feministeconomicsThis document is a ‘gender edit’ guide to the Scottish Labour party’s ‘red paper’ which sets out its case for a ‘no vote’ in the referendum. It extracts passages that refer directly to gender and women, or where there are clear implications for women and girls in Scotland.
Date of publication: March 2014
Filename: 1396010274_1403-gender-edit-red-paper.pdf | File size: 106KB | Tags: indyref childcare gendereditThis document is a ‘gender edit’ of the Scottish Government's white paper, which sets out its case for a ‘yes vote’ in the referendum.
Date of publication: November 2013.
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