{"id":815837,"date":"2026-10-27T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815837\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:20:10","slug":"chancellor-john-healeys-budget-to-include-15m-to-tackle-misogyny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815837\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor John Healey’s Budget to include \u00a315m to tackle misogyny"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “misogyny prevention fund” is expected to be confirmed in the Budget and is intended to support the work of a national taskforce established last month, external<\/a> and chaired by Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson.<\/p>\n

Healey said the money will support “practical action to tackle misogyny head-on” and he hopes it will attract additional funding from businesses and philanthropists to increase its reach.<\/p>\n

Phillipson said daily incidents of misogyny, including sexist slurs and workplace discrimination, have “no place in modern Britain”.<\/p>\n

She said: “This funding is a critical step as we work to confine misogyny to the history books, where it belongs.”<\/p>\n

Phillipson added that “everyone, from big business to members of the public, can do their bit to stamp out misogyny and improve the lives of women and girls everywhere”.<\/p>\n

When launching the taskforce chaired by Phillipson, the government said last month that it would aim to ensure government policy is “shaped by those most affected by misogyny”.<\/p>\n

It added its first meeting would focus on young people and later look at “workplaces, digital spaces and social cohesion”.<\/p>\n

Statistics published by the Office for National Statistics this month showed an estimated 12.8% of females aged 16 and over in England and Wales – around 3.2m – experienced at least one of domestic abuse, sexual victimisation or stalking in the year to March 2026.<\/p>\n

The figure was an estimated 8.9% for males – around 2.1m.<\/p>\n

For the Conservatives, Morrissey cited the estimates for women and girls as she criticised the announcement.<\/p>\n

She said: “Labour simply aren’t serious about tackling the crisis of violence against women and girls.<\/p>\n

“This week it seems they will get the hard-pressed British taxpayer to fork out \u00a315m to fund projects to tackle the ‘manosphere’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The “misogyny prevention fund” is expected to be confirmed in the Budget and is intended to support the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}