Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 9015, how many and what proportion of (a) civil servants and (b) advisors working directly on the industrial strategy are women.

I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave her on 13 September 2017, to Question 9015:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-09-06/9015/.

We are unable to provide an answer as this information is not centrally held and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.