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Rachel Reeves has appointed Alex Depledge, an advocate of women’s start-ups, as the first entrepreneur advisor in Great Britain when the Chancellor tries to improve the relationship of her government with strong companies.
Depplge, which has set up a number of companies, including the Architectural Tech Company Resi, will work in the Ministry of Finance two days a week and help to develop guidelines to increase start-ups before the autumn budget.
The allies of Reeves admit that the Ministry of Finance has well -established contacts with large companies, the city of London and the trade authorities, but has to improve its connections with the smaller but quickly growing shops in the country.
Depplge also talked about the need to find new sources of financing to help companies scale the financial time in the past year that this was particularly a problem for women Entrepreneur.
“Financing is the only thing that matters,” said Displedge. “Women have no difficulty founding a company, they have difficulty growing. We do not protect part of the British economy with green shots.”
A lack of access to financial resources is one of the most important questions that are taken into account by Reeves before your speech in the mansion in the city of London in the next month and in your budget later a year.
The Ministry of Finance said that Trepdede “would look at the most important obstacles to companies that want to start or scale in Great Britain”.
Last year, the FT announced Depplege that women often lead companies in sectors who do not attract major investments from private equity and risk capital.
Before her speech on her speech on the Labor Party Conference, she presented Reeves last September and said that the Chancellor was a “demolition ball” to the glass ceiling after being the first woman who held the role.
Reeves said on Wednesday: “We have a long list of successful start-ups, scale-ups and small businesses across Great Britain-with the greatest density of scale-ups among the seven large industrialized countries of the G7.
“Having Alex in the team will bring invaluable specialist knowledge.” The allies of Reeves said that deputy would be a contact point for entrepreneurs in the Ministry of Finance.
The entrepreneur, born in Bradford, said that it would take on a role that “a groundbreaking step is that, which is growing in the heart of economic thinking”.
