Women: Board Membership Debate

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Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville

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Monday 17th June 2013

(11 years, 4 months ago)

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Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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The noble Baroness is quite right. We have an aspiration, as she probably knows, that 50% of appointments to public boards should be women by 2015. I have seen the figures that are just being finalised for the current state of affairs, and it is looking encouraging that we are moving in the right direction, but we are not complacent.

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville Portrait Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
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My Lords, Damocles was a man. Will the Government consider a female sword?

Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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I look to the noble Lord to come up with one.

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