Debates between Claire Coutinho and Jack Lopresti during the 2019-2024 Parliament

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Debate between Claire Coutinho and Jack Lopresti
Wednesday 23rd September 2020

(4 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Claire Coutinho Portrait Claire Coutinho (East Surrey) (Con)
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What steps she is taking to encourage girls and young women to take up STEM subjects.

Jack Lopresti Portrait Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)
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What steps she is taking to encourage girls and young women to take up STEM subjects.

Kemi Badenoch Portrait The Minister for Equalities (Kemi Badenoch)
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We continue to fund numerous programmes to increase girls’ and young women’s take-up of science, technology, engineering and maths subjects. The number of girls’ STEM A-level entries has increased year on year, despite an overall reduction in cohort size. Since 2010, there has been a 31% increase in girls’ entries to STEM A-levels in England and a 34% increase in women accepted on to full-time STEM undergraduate courses in the UK.

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