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Written Question
Training for Women Network
Wednesday 17th May 2023

Asked by: Martin Docherty-Hughes (Scottish National Party - West Dunbartonshire)

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, when he last met with the Training for Women Network.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris

My ministerial team, officials and I regularly meet organisations from the women's sector in Northern Ireland. In recent months, we have met members of the Women's Policy Group, the Women's Aid Federation, and women's organisations working in Derry/Londonderry and Belfast. In regards to the Training Women's Centre specifically, Lord Caine visited the Training Women's Centre early last year, and my officials have met with them at various points over the last year. The Training Women's Centre also attended a roundtable with me at NICVA on 3 May 2023.

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