Energy Entrepreneurs Fund: Females

(asked on 21st February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of money distributed from the Energy Entrepreneur Fund has been given projects where a female lead was the head of the lead partner of the project.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 24th February 2022

In the last round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (Round 8), the average grant won by female led applications was £504,797 and the average grant won by male led applications was £516,276. The difference between these two figures is not statistically significant.

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