During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday 9th March, Mary Macleod, Member of Parliament for Brentford and Isleworth, took the opportunity to bring attention to the findings of Lord Davies’ report on Women on Boards.

Mary asked the Prime Minister, “Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and today great trade figures and export growth were announced.  Does the Prime Minister agree that we would have even better figures if we managed to get more women on the boards of companies across the UK?”

The Prime Minister responded, “My Honourable Friend is right to draw attention to today’s trade figures, which show a big increase in exports, which is exactly the sort of rebalancing that our economy needs.  It is absolutely right that we need to get more women involved in the work force and at board level.  In addition, in terms of entrepreneurialism, if we had the same rate of women setting up small businesses as in America, we would have tens of thousands of extra businesses creating wealth and jobs.”