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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what legislative quotas have existed for women on UK boards since 2010.

No legislative quotas have existed for women on UK boards since 2010. The Government is strongly committed to increasing the number of women on public and private sector boards and believes that the most effective way of effecting this change is through a voluntary approach, including non-legislative targets. The Government is supportive of the Hampton-Alexander Review into FTSE Women Leaders which has set a target of 33% female representation across FTSE 350 boards by 2020.