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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 909395, tabled on 25 November 2020

Question

Andrew Jones
Conservative
Harrogate and Knaresborough
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support women starting and growing businesses.

Answer

Paul Scully
Conservative
Sutton and Cheam
Commons

Answered on

25 November 2020

All Government’s business support schemes are open to eligible businesses including female entrepreneurs.

The Start-Up Loans programme has provided more than 31,000 loans, worth over £245m, to female entrepreneurs as of October 2020.

Additionally, we continue to work with the private sector to deliver the eight initiatives of the Rose Review. Great progress has been made over the past year with joint NatWest and Be the Business launching the ‘Rose Review Female Entrepreneurs Mentoring Programme’ on 27 October.

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