unfortunately, stoke—on—trent schools such as the accel academy had staff and students testing positive staff and students being away from the clash as they await testing and would he agree with me this crew should be prioritised so that staff and students are back in school as soon as possible? yes, indeed. i wa nt to soon as possible? yes, indeed. i want to thank the staff and students in his constituency and across the country for the 99.9% of schools that are now back open again. the vast majority of pupils are back in their schools. they should have confidence to be there that they are in the right place, by far the best place for them to be and we are sending out new test kits the whole time and there is an online portal through which every school can now access the tests that they need. liverpool begins local lockdown measures today. when restrictions we re measures today. when restrictions were first imposed six months ago the prime minister outlined a package of financial support for local government. we did that was all -- local government. we did that was all —— we did all th