29 May 2025, 09:40

By Samantha Niblett MP and Samina Hussain-Letch

As one of the Labour Party’s Business Tech champions I recently partnered with global tech leader, Block, to invite some of the UK’s leading female tech entrepreneurs to the House of Commons.

I wanted to find out firsthand what their experiences have been and the challenges they face in relation to accessing capital, skills and talent, and regulation. But importantly, their insights will inform a list of recommendations that I will put to the Rt. Hon. Jonathan Reynolds MP, Secretary of State for Department for Business and Trade so that we can truly shift the dial.

There’s a massive opportunity right here, right now - worth billions - that’s being missed by the UK’s leading investors.

It’s putting their money behind the UK’s phenomenal talent pool of women tech entrepreneurs.

Investors should be clamouring over each other to secure these game-changing tech opportunities that could add up to £250 billion of new value to the UK economy if women started and scaled new businesses at the same rate as UK........

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