Let me focus quickly, then, on what we believe needs to be done.
I've said something about the gender equality duty. I'd also like to say that we believe that the capacity of government officials to undertake gender analysis with the policies they are developing is still very limited. Most officials received some training on the equalities angle, but not enough. We think that needs to be improved.
We also believe the political pressure on government departments to implement gender budgeting is extremely limited. It mainly derives from women ministers who have been committed to this agenda for a long time. The more women ministers we've had, the more significant gender budgeting has become. We would like to see that further prioritized.
We believe the equalities focal points within government, the machinery I've just been describing, is not well resourced. The Minister for Women, for example, has a number of other portfolios. She is leader of the House of Commons. She's also deputy leader of the Labour Party. So she has a number of other hats that make it difficult for her to focus on women as such.
There is a lack of gender-desegregated statistical data available to officials. We do have a gender statistics users group, which is an NGO that is supported by our Office for National Statistics and the Royal Statistical Society, and they do a lot of work to try to improve this, but more needs to be done.
Finally, I want to say that we consider that gender budgeting should include macroeconomic as well as microeconomic policy. We believe, for example, state accounting principles are not gender neutral, and we think they measure mainly male economic activity, rather than, for example, unpaid caring activity, which is largely undertaken by women. So we would urge you, if you are undertaking this, to look at both—macroeconomic and microeconomic issues.