Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 20
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Launch campaign to raise awareness of SEIS, EIS, and FEIS among investors and entrepreneurs.
Recommendation
The government should launch a campaign to increase awareness of the SEIS, EIS and proposed FEIS schemes among investors and female entrepreneurs. The campaign should be appropriately tailored to ensure underrepresented groups of women are aware of the schemes. The Government should collect data on the schemes by gender and region to monitor take-up. (Recommendation, Paragraph 75)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response discusses a review of parental leave and pay for self-employed parents, completely unrelated to the recommendation to launch a campaign increasing awareness of investment schemes and collect associated data.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The Government has also published a Call for Evidence that seeks views on the effectiveness of existing tax incentives, and the wider tax system for business founders and scaling firms, and how the UK can better support these companies to start, scale, and stay in the UK. The Call for evidence will close on 28 February 2026.16
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