<p>Poverty Among Young Women</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:57 pm on 3 October 2017.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 1:57, 3 October 2017

First Minister, last week, I visited Severn Trent’s testing labs in Bridgend—you may know them already—and most of the senior team there were women. They weren’t educated recently in Wales, I’m afraid, so it doesn’t help you on Andrew’s question, but, even so, it is a great example of women getting into good STEM careers. They’re also a good example of where, in a facility where you would normally expect a degree level of education, their interest is now turning to the further education sector to see whether students from there can be brought into appropriate roles, and, as we know, people from poorer backgrounds tend to use FE a little bit more. Welsh Government announced in January that the Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales was setting up an internal working group developing the ‘Talented Women for a Successful Wales’ report findings. So, I’m wondering whether you could provide us with an update on that on that, when we might be seeing some results on the back of it.