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Debate between Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh and Joanna Cherry
Monday 20th July 2015
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Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (Ochil and South Perthshire) (SNP)
6. Whether it is her Department’s policy to ensure gender balance on its departmental board.
Joanna Cherry (Edinburgh South West) (SNP)
19. Whether it is her Department’s policy to ensure gender balance on its departmental board.
The Secretary of State for Education (Nicky Morgan)
It is essential that we increase women’s representation across all areas of life, including UK boardrooms. I want my Department’s board to be as representative as possible. My one DFE board appointment so far as Secretary of State has been a woman—the excellent Marion Plant. We must, however, go further to make sure that women are represented in public bodies across the UK.