Ms Sorcha Eastwood:

I agree. We do not automatically equate women's voices with the issues of autonomy and finance, which is a real bugbear of mine. It really helps to have women around the table and they should be at every table when it comes to the purse strings, who wants them, where the money goes and why. One of the things I would really like to see is more security around those funding streams. In the North, we have issues right now with the UK shared prosperity fund, which is a legacy of the Brexit fallout. It would be interesting to hear the committee members’ views on women and economic and fiscal policy, and what can be done to help us.