Brooks writes with Baroness Anne Jenkin for the ConservativeHome website.

Unless there is a significant increase in women MPs at the 2015 general election, we will need to look at this issue in detail, and all options should be on the table.

Brooks Newmark MP backs the Government’s record on women in work as he recognises the benefits to women of recent Government Policy. Brooks also commented on the fact that there are more women in work than ever before.

Brooks Newmark welcomes the Bill and the support it has received, but raises concerns about its effectiveness when many of the women it aims to protect are very young, cannot speak English and have no social or family network in the UK.

During a debate on the Equality Bill, Brooks Newmark raises his concerns about the pace of change of the disparity between what women and men are paid.