Status of Women committee  When you ask politicians publicly whether they think the House of Commons should be more diverse, there is increasing acceptance of that claim. What I was querying, if I understood you correctly, is that often that doesn't translate into the efforts within political parties that

Status of Women committee  Yes, there have been a number of the recommendations implemented, starting from the institution itself recognizing the report through one of the governing bodies, which really plays into the idea that Parliament, as an institution, has a responsibility to reflect and put into pla

Status of Women committee  I could provide details, if you would like on those.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry; with the translation of that, it was rather difficult to get the core of the question.

Status of Women committee  For me it feels like a very strange question, because the answer would be that our parliaments should be representative of the countries they serve. Gender is a salient characteristic. Women are diverse, and that diversity should be present within our parliaments.

Status of Women committee  I think if a parliament is so skewed, one would wonder about what barriers are stopping different types of people from entering it. In a way, for me the absence of different kinds of people from a parliament indicates or demonstrates problems of gatekeeping that keep certain ki

Status of Women committee  I think it needs to be a bespoke response in terms of your regulation of political parties and what your laws around parties actually enable you to do. In the U.K. we struggle, because we don't have state funding of political parties, but where there is provision of funding to

Status of Women committee  Good evening.

Status of Women committee  We don't need that. We are presenting—

Status of Women committee  Are you happy for us to start now?

Status of Women committee  Thank you. First of all, Rosie and I very much welcome this opportunity to feed in to you our British-based research and wider thoughts. We want to make three very broad points about women's under-representation. The first point we call the “quota-plus” strategy. There are