Covid-19: Impact on Attendance in Education Settings Debate
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Caroline Nokes
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Covid-19: Impact on Attendance in Education Settings
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Gavin Williamson
This is very much why we invested hundreds of millions of pounds in the roll-out of 1.3 million devices to be able to support schools, but most importantly to be able to support children, as the hon. Lady set out.
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North) (Con) [V]
Can my right hon. Friend reassure me, as we look to 19 July and the end of the summer term, that there can be no question of a return to bubbles and self-isolation when children return in the autumn?
Gavin Williamson
I do not want to pre-empt the decision across Government on the next stage, but our direction is very clear about lifting the restrictions and ensuring that children are not in a situation where they have to bubble. That is very much part of the course of the road map, and of course we would very much expect that our children would not be facing that in September, as my right hon. Friend has said.