Question follow-through · 45742
Venture Capital: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make his policy to require venture capital firms to (a) record and (b) publish the diversity of founders receiving investment.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make his policy to require venture capital firms to (a) record and (b) publish the diversity of founders receiving investment.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department is working to improve access to finance for diverse founders. An example of one initiative is the Investing in Women Code.It was established in 2019 as a recommendation of the Alison Rose Review to increase transparency and data reporting o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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