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Women And Science

EDM number 105 in 2012-13, proposed by Valerie Vaz on 22/05/2012.
Categorised under the topics of Higher education, Research and innovation and Science.

That this House welcomes the valuable contribution to science made by women; acknowledges the contribution of Bedford College, University of London, which opened up higher education to women for the first time in the UK; regrets that only 29.8 per cent of all female science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates of working age in the UK are employed in science, engineering and technology occupations compared to half of all male STEM graduates of working age; notes that under-representation of women in STEM costs 15 to 23 billion or 1.3 to2 per cent of GDP; supports the work of United Kingdom Resource Centre for Women in Science andEngineering which advances gender equality and diversity from classroom to boardroom in science, engineering and technology and has directly reached over 7,000 women between 2008 and 2011, 900 of whom report positive outcomes; further regrets that the Government has decided not to renew funding for theUnited Kingdom Resource Centre from April 2011 resulting in a 100 per cent loss of Government funding this year; and calls on the Government to secure the continuation of the United Kingdom Resource Centre for Women in Science andEngineering into the next year by restoring their funding.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Valerie Vaz22/05/2012Walsall SouthLabourProposed
Andrew George22/05/2012St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mike Hancock22/05/2012Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley22/05/2012Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Lady Hermon23/05/2012North DownIndependentSeconded
Hugh Bayley23/05/2012York CentralLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins23/05/2012Luton NorthLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson23/05/2012Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
John McDonnell23/05/2012Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alan Meale23/05/2012MansfieldLabourSigned
Albert Owen23/05/2012Ynys MLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn23/05/2012Islington NorthLabourSigned
Hywel Francis23/05/2012AberavonLabourSigned
Martin Caton24/05/2012GowerLabourSigned
Mary Glindon24/05/2012North TynesideLabourSigned
David Simpson11/06/2012Upper BannDUPSigned
Tony Lloyd11/06/2012Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Caroline Lucas11/06/2012Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Annette Brooke11/06/2012Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Shannon12/06/2012StrangfordDUPSigned
John Leech12/06/2012Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Julian Huppert18/06/2012CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Williams20/06/2012CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
David Crausby21/06/2012Bolton North EastLabourSigned
John Hemming26/06/2012Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Rosie Cooper03/09/2012West LancashireLabourSigned

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