Women: Board Membership Debate
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Baroness Wheatcroft
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(10 years, 11 months ago)
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Baroness Wheatcroft
Does my noble friend the Minister agree that it is the job of Government to encourage the sort of changes on boards that we are talking about but that it is not the job of Government to dictate? It is the shareholders who own the business who should decide who sits on the board.
Baroness Northover
My noble friend is quite right that the Government, and indeed wider society, should encourage businesses to look at this and to recognise their own self-interest in the 21st century.