Question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much funding the Government has allocated to the STEM returners programme.

We’ve made great progress in increasing the number of girls studying STEM subjects but we need to do more to get women into STEM jobs. To support this, we have launched a new STEM returners programme to refresh and grow the skills of people who have taken career breaks to care for others. Women Returners has been awarded £150,000 to support parents and carers back into the workplace through sector-specific refresh training and work opportunities. The first cohort of returners began training this May.