Hunt hides budget impact on Black community Benefits sanction crackdown predicted to hit Black jobseekers harder BudgetDay2023 Budget2023 AREtweets_ WomensBudgetGrp
, even though the Equality Act of 2010 says the government should carry out EIA’s for policy decisions and legislation.Jeremy Crook OBE, chief executive of Action for Race Equality, said: “We support calls for the Treasury to publish a Budget Equality Impact Assessment.
Mr Hunt’s main announcement was 30 hours of free childcare for one and two year olds, but he also ramped up benefit sanctions to force claimants back to work. This measure is expected to disproportionately hit Black people. Meanwhile, the Chancellor boasted that Britain was not in a “technical recession” with growth flatlining at 0.4%.
Treasury officials are known to assume budget measures affect everyone equally, while disregarding demographic profiles of who benefits, such as who owns shares or who owns a car.
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