Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support women in the engineering sector.

According to Engineering UK, the engineering and technology industry employed approximately 6.3m people in 2023, with approximately 15.7% women.

There are a number of services supporting women into engineering, for example, Royal Academy Engineering and the National Careers Services. However, there is clearly more to be done.

I will be convening a group of senior energy leaders in early 2025 to discuss how diversity can be improved to help deliver the clean energy superpower mission, which will need significantly more engineers.