Government facing judicial review over budget discrimination against women

[edam]

Fawcett Society are seeking a judicial review of the budget as the government didn't do a gender impact assessment, which is apparently a legal requirement.

Ruddy well done that Society as far as I'm concerned. Do hope they get their review!

There was a thread about that with some Tories saying they thought Zak won, bizarrely!

Please can someone link me to something which explains the NHS privatisation plan which was mentioned at the beginning of this thread?

SuseB - in a completely trivial aside, I too was at Durham, year below Sam.
I would have a brilliant 'Top Ten-uous' item if Chris Evens ever featured her :-0

Sorry for lowering the tone...

PassMeTheKleenex LOL - I would too, it would involve a Eurovision party in Trevs in 1996...

[end hijack to allow thread to return to more serious debate]

Teddy - it's not really been covered although Telegraph may have mentioned it. If you go on Department of Health site and look for the most recent announcement on GP commissioning it should be in there (hidden in there) OR google 'foundation trusts' possibly with 'social enterprise' and it might come up.

Teddy - a few articles from the Guardian which explain a little bit about the NHS white paper.

are nhs reforms really needed

the nhs is being wired for demolition

Thanks Edam, been looking butter have missed it. Just goes to show how some Torues are able to bend reality in most impressive way!

AFAICT, the Labour government never did any equality impact assessments for any piece of legislation that they passed, including any of their budgets. It seems they are/were only done for statutory instruments, not primary legislation, presumably because primary legislation has always been seen as being the inviolable will of Parliament (with the only exception being the Human Rights Act).

OOOOoooo look, Theresa May has suddenly sent a faux letter describing how concerned she is about the cuts hitting women the hardest, unfairly.

Yeah right - like she was arsed until the Fawcett Society kicked up a fuss.

yes it is in the Daily Mail

It is not a gender impact assessment but an Equality Impact Assessment that is required covering about 11 different diversity groups inc women. Each individaul budget measure should have conducted one. I don't think the Budget as a whole is expected to. I am no lawyer but I think there are questions around being able to have a judicial review on a Budget.