Schedule 1 Amendments
Electoral Administration Bill
10:45 am
Eleanor Laing (Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, Scotland; Epping Forest, Conservative)
Clearly the Committee does not understand the difference between mathematics and arithmetic. [Interruption.] The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland agrees with me—because in the Scottish education system there are entirely different exam papers for arithmetic and mathematics. Arithmetic is much easier than mathematics; it is simply about the relationship between numbers, whereas mathematics is a much more complicated process and concept.