Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Duguid and Maggie Throup

Wednesday 25th October 2023 Commons Chamber

[David Duguid (Banff and Buchan) (Con)]

3. What steps the Government are taking to help support women in STEM roles.

[Maggie Throup (Erewash) (Con)]

11. What steps the Government are taking to help support women in STEM roles.

[The Minister for Women (Maria Caulfield)]

We have made great progress in increasing the number of girls studying STEM—science, technology, engineering and maths—subjects. Our challenge now is to do more to get them into STEM jobs. To support that, we launched a scheme called STEM returners, as one of our programmes to grow the skills of people who have taken a career break. We have so far had 42 women in our first cohort and 54 have signed up for our second cohort, getting women with experience and skills back into STEM jobs.