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Viscount Stansgate (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 December 2025

Debate

Girls: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Contribution

My Lords, in respect of my noble friend’s Question, men outnumber women by four to one in computer science degrees. It has also been said that the economy loses between £2 billion and £3 billion a year because women leave the tech sector or change jobs due to barriers that should not exist. Is that not exactly the type of thing the Women in Tech Taskforce is being set up to tackle?

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