Question follow-through · 17598
Engineering: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support women in the engineering sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2025 · 34 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support women in the engineering sector.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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6 Jan 2025
Answer published
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 t...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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