A shortage of science and engineering graduates with good transferable skills is holding back the British economy, according to a review carried out for the Treasury by Gareth Roberts, past president of the Institute of Physics. The review says that employers are finding it hard to recruit numerate graduates because fewer people are studying the physical sciences, maths and engineering. It says that this shortage could also affect the biosciences, which are "increasingly reliant on people who are highly numerate and have a background in the physical sciences".