The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has published its report entitled Higher Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects. The report calls for immediate action to ensure that enough young people study STEM subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. With respect to mathematics the report recommends that, 'mathematics should be compulsory for all students post-16 and calls on universities to toughen up their mathematics requirements for entry onto STEM courses, and to get involved in setting up the [school] mathematics curriculum'. The full report is available here.
The Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS) provided written evidence to the inquiry in December 2011. The full submission is available on the CMS website.