Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure that future funding given for the Energy Entrepreneur Fund achieves a gender balance.
The Energy Entrepreneurs Fund has collected data on the gender of the principal applicants in all previous rounds and analysis has shown there is no statistical difference in success rates between female and male applicants. The Department will continue to monitor this in future rounds of the scheme to ensure this remains the case.