Privacy Notice: Women Business Leaders Review 

Who we are

This work is being carried out by:

  • the Department for Business, Innovations, Science & Trade (BIST),
  • the Chair, CEO, project team, and Steering Group of the Women Business Leaders Review (the Review),
  • KPMG UK LLP as sponsor of the Review; and
  • Honey Creative Ltd as a technology provider.

For the purposes of data protection legislation, the joint data controllers for the personal data processed as part of the Women Business Leaders are Government: Department for Business, Innovation, Science & Trade, and the Review should be considered a part of those joint controllers.

Why our use of your personal data is lawful

The Women Business Leaders is an independent, business-led review that is supported by the Government, with the aim of improving gender diversity in senior leadership. We need to contact companies directly in order to receive information about gender diversity in their senior leadership teams. Our lawful basis for processing this data is a public task, as outlined under Article 6.1 of the GDPR.

How we will use your information

We need to contact the FTSE 350 and the 50 largest private companies directly to engage them in the data collection for the Review, and for activities related to the Review.  We also engage with supporters, stakeholders and others working with and for the Review. This engagement allows us to report accurately year-on-year on the progress of women’s representation in senior leadership positions. We will use your data to contact you if needed about the submission of your company’s gender diversity data and in regards to the Women Business Leaders Review.

The nature of your personal data we will be using

The categories of your personal data that we will be using for this project are corporate contact details (names, job titles, telephone numbers, email addresses, and postal addresses) collected when engaging with the Review or contacting us via the inbox at info@womenbusinessleaders.co.uk. Data collected is non-sensitive personal data.

Who we will make your personal data available to

Any personal information such as the contact name, email address, and telephone number will not be published and will remain confidential to the parties of the Women Business Leaders Review (see website for details).

How long we will keep your personal data

We will only keep your personal data for as long as we need it for the purpose(s) of the predecessor Reviews (Davies Review, Hampton-Alexander Review and FTSE Women Leaders Review) and the current Review, after which point it will be securely destroyed. In the event that further work is carried out following the Review’s conclusion and we need to contact you about this, we will update this privacy notice further.

Your data protection rights

You have the right:

  • to ask us for access to information about you that we hold
  • to have your personal data rectified, if it is inaccurate or incomplete
  • to request the deletion or removal of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing
  • to restrict our processing of your personal data (i.e. permitting its storage but no further processing)
  • to object to direct marketing (including profiling) and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics
  • not to be subject to decisions based purely on automated processing where it produces a legal or similarly significant effect on you

If you need to contact us regarding any of the above or have any questions regarding your personal information please do so via the following email address:  leadershipdiversity@businessandtrade.gov.uk

Further information about your data protection rights appears on the Information Commissioner’s website at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/principle-6-rights/

Right to lodge a complaint

If you are unhappy with our use of your personal data, please contact us at

Alternatively, you have the right to raise any concerns with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) via their website at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Last updated

We may need to update this privacy notice periodically so we recommend that you revisit this information from time to time. This version was last updated in September 2026.