speaker, the university of essex is proud of you.laughter] >> prime minister, early this month, the conservatives were humiliated in the local elections. would the prime minister discuss with his secretary of state, schools and families why essex county council is ignoring what the secretary of state promised in his state in may of last year and is proceeding to close two secondary schools against the democratic wish of the people of my constituency. >> as he knows, investment in schools is rising. investment generally in new school buildings is rising. he has specific questions he wishes to address for the secretary for children and i hope he'll be able to meet them soon. >> barry gardener. >> this morning simon corker from wembley police station called me. to say that there had been -- to say that there had been a drop in gun crime of 45% and a drop in youth offending of 19% in the past year. i know the prime minister will want to congratulate wembley police force on those statistics but will he also join me in asking for a 10% cut

even if you essex let -- except the legislative history, it seems to meet the type of material usually requested is much less sensitive than out material, where an allegation of the state secret is asserted by the government. doesn't it concern you that you would be having different standards, that we have different kinds of ways that could be accorded to government assertions when records or information are attempted to be sought from the government? >> number one, i am not sure. i do not have the experience although i encountered those kinds of cases on the bench. i do not have the experience to validate what you say that some of state secrets are set some how to involve much more sensitive material. my chief experience -- there was sensitive materials that were raised in some of those cases, including the aborted a helicopter rescue of the people at the end of the carter administration. i want to make another point, and that is that the jefferson case, it specifically addressed and pointed out that they believe that different standards might be appropriate. what is at stake in emplo

it was mentioned essex and dollars billion in scordatura and achievable savings -- it was already mentioned600 billion in scorableeable and achievable savings. i am waiting for the saturday radio address. so write that down. did i do that in the week ahead? yes. >> during the campaign, the president chose nicorette. is he doing that quite regularly? >> i assume so, yes. i was going to say. a yoga question? tater tots? >> on health care, is coverage for every person and imperative -- an imperative? >> i think the president has spoken about his great desire to see both, and i think that more imperative includes many things. one, as he talked about in the campaign, ensuring that we have to do something for families and small businesses that are fortunate enough to have health insurance as well as finding a way to bring more people into the system to insure that they have -- ensure that they have a basic plan for health care, and that come in itself, will drive down health care costs, because they will not be going to be emergency room for primary health care. >> there was an advertisement that

district, currently serves as president for the he section valley health care and serves on the -- essex valley health care and serves on the board of east general hospital. she's part of a nonprofit organization of doctors, nurses, and other professionals who give back to the community through their services. she is a founder and director of the statewide female leadership development institute and research center at the new jersey city institute. the caribbean community's presence also plays a wide role in our elections, especially in my district, where the greater settlement of many people from the caribbean in east orange and irvington and newark make their voices heard. past elections we have seen many people from the caribbean communities educate caribbeans on the awareness of participation in recognizing june as caribbean month. my work with the caucus this congress has continually focused on enhancing relationships between the united states and the caribbean states by reviewing proposals and pending legislation that has direct impact on the caribbean. i believe that by facilitati