Numeracy for Life Committee
2 July 2026
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Numeracy for Life Committee Actual start House of Lords
19:47 - 20:36
Speaker 1
Welcome everybody to this next session of Numeracy for Life. And we're very happy, pleased to welcome Rishi Sunak and his team from the Richmond Project, who are campaigning for maths and numeracy education. So very closely aligned to what we're also looking into.
So thank you very much. All three of you do feel free to come in on answers, but don't get too overly voluble in your answers so we can get through the questions that we have put, and you've seen the questions, and there'll be some freeform. So just really to open the batting, Rishi, would you just like to tell us a little bit about the Richmond Project and what drove you to set it up and your key objectives?
20:37 - 21:58
Speaker 2
Well, well firstly, Chair, thank you so much for having us today and inviting the Richmond Project team and thank you to the committee for your focus on this issue. Obviously we're passionate about it, but a committee with your weight and standing focusing on the issue, publishing findings, I think will do wonders for the debate and raising awareness, so I appreciate the effort and time that you've shown.
Well, my wife Akshata and I started the Richmond Project last year, a charity whose mission is to improve social mobility through education and specifically via numeracy. And we did that because we believe if people have more skill and confidence with numbers, then that will open doors for them at school, at home, at work, and in their general lives, and in doing that, ultimately hopefully be able to transform people's lives. The first piece of work we did last year was a very deep research project into the country's attitudes and attainment with numeracy, I think the largest study of its kind, which we did with King's University and Public First. And it showed, actually, in a quite heartened fashion, the vast majority, 90% of the country, think that this is really important and actually would like to improve as well. But it also highlighted that there is a challenge.
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