About the Women's Enterprise Task Force

The Task Force will champion women's enterprise to encourage more women across the country to start and run successful businesses.

The Task Force will provide leadership and champion women’s enterprise. It will drive the women’s enterprise agenda forward across Government and into the regions. It will take ownership of the Women’s Enterprise Panel Action Plan and drive its delivery. It will focus on specific, practical steps, which can improve the women’s enterprise landscape and will ensure optimum conditions for longer-term culture change by fully engaging cross-Whitehall policies. In particular it will:

• drawing on national and international best practice, produce evidence of measures and methods, which make a difference and make a strong case to stakeholders (including RDAs and business support providers) for action,

• work with the Regional Development Agencies to ensure women have access to high-quality, women-friendly support,

• lead joint action with banks to improve awareness of financing options for women entrepreneurs,

• improve the transition of women from benefit receipt to self-employment,

• embed gender-disaggregated data-collection as a principle across Government and the regions,

• raise and maintain the public profile of Women’s Enterprise in the media and with the public.