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Baroness Barran (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 December 2025

Debate

Girls: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Contribution

I very much welcome the reference by the noble Baroness, Lady Hunter, to women in engineering. I heard recently that one of the best predictors of economic growth can be seen in the ratio of engineers to lawyers. Our current ratio is a little heavily weighted to lawyers, so we need more engineers. On maths, as the Minister knows, girls get the same percentage of grades 7 to 9 as boys at GCSE, but there is half the uptake of maths A-level among girls. What specifically are the Government going to do to address that?

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