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Gareth Thomas Excerpts
Thursday 14th March 2019

(5 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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Every human endeavour depends for its success on women’s involvement, so, yes, I am pleased about progress, but more needs to be done.

Gareth Thomas Portrait Gareth Thomas (Harrow West) (Lab/Co-op)
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Further to the question asked by the Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, the right hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mrs Miller), one of the barriers to women holding highly paid positions is maternity discrimination. What further steps will the Government take to tackle this issue?

Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is leading on a number of pieces of work. The women’s economic empowerment strategy is considering all these policies in the round to look at what more we can do to ensure that women are supported and treated fairly, and can have full careers. It will be published later this spring.