Part of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 December 2016.
Nusrat Ghani
Conservative, Wealden
12:00,
13 December 2016
I welcome the Minister’s response, but to get more women on boards we have to get more women into business in the first place. I championed and spoke at the Wayfinder Woman conference in Uckfield. The mission of the Sussex-based organisation is to get more women into business. What work do the Government do with such organisations to get women into enterprise so that they get the skills that they need to rise to the top?
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