The Contribution of Women-owned Businesses

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes the latest joint report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and Women’s Enterprise Scotland, which highlights the contribution made by women-owned businesses across the UK; notes that the gross value added (GVA) from women-owned businesses is on the rise, as is the number of people employed by women-owned and women-led businesses; is disappointed by what it sees as the lack of substantial data and research into women-owned businesses, which means that the full scope of the contribution made by them is not known, nor, as a result, the areas within this field that could do with additional support and improvement, and calls on the Scottish Government to provide robust legislative support to boost the economic growth of women-owned businesses and to invest in extensive data analysis of them in order to understand their contribution better.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Lab 3 Con 1

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No contribution in the Official Report cites S5M-14790 by reference.