Recommendation 11

The Government should develop and publish an ambitious strategy for advancing female entrepreneurship to sit alongside and complement the existing Industrial Strategy and SME Strategy. This strategy should be published within 12 months. It should be developed in consultation with stakeholders across the investment landscape but particularly female entrepreneurs. It should include a focus on sectors of the economy not deemed to be high growth such as beauty and social enterprise, where female entrepreneurs currently feel overlooked despite delivering long- term sustainable growth and employment. The recommendations of our report should provide a good starting point for such a strategy. (Recommendation, Paragraph 55)