Business: Equality
(asked on 9th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to encourage gender diversity in company ownership.
This question was answered on 15th March 2016
The UK has been named as one of the best places in Europe to start a business with an increase of 900,000 businesses between 2010 and 2015. And around 1 million (20%) of all our SMEs in UK were led by women in 2014, an increase of around 170,000 from 2010. We have also exceeded the 25% representation of women on FTSE 100 boards.