Richard Harpin

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James Reed: all about business · 61. The email that saved HomeServe and sparked a £4bn business | Sir Richard Harpin · 12 Jan 2026 podcast

Only 16% ever do it, and that's because only in 34% of the 4,200 secondary schools in the UK do we talk about enterprise and entrepreneurship.

So there's a big opportunity there.

The career and enterprise company, entrepreneurship is not a career.

So we're actively engaged with them in hoping to do a pilot in the northeast of England with 15 schools.

And that would make entrepreneurship a career.

And it would be put on the career hub.

We would test out the program.

If it works, we then roll it out across every school in the UK.

So it's not defined as a career entrepreneurship, like medicine might be.

But you're going to change that?

Hopefully.

That would be good.

I would applaud that, Richard.

So is that on the cards quite soon?

Because if that was in every school, I think that would make a real difference.

Pretty confident that that's going to happen as a pilot in the Northeast next year.

Fantastic.

So, I mean, the government talks a lot about growth and the importance of some entrepreneurs in the economy.

That's one thing that might be happening.

Are there other things that you would urge them to do or not do, as the case may be, to get the economy moving and to get more people starting businesses?

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