steve barclay.asury committee were given an insight into the challenges facing the hospitality industry with new restrictions on meeting up and pubs a nd restau ra nts shutting at 10pm. even before those restrictions were imposed, an industry survey painted a bleak picture. a quarter of our members said that they would be closing premises, for individual sites, there will be their entire business and for others it will be a significant proportion of their estate. when we asked the survey was done just before we latest round of restrictions comes only about a week and a half since it was published but it is already out of date. the anticipated number of additional redundancies by the end of the year was 560,000. so, that was out of the ones that were on furlough. we are doing that survey again and will share the data with the treasury committee when it comes out. the anticipation is that number will be far higher now as a result of the local restrictions the national constraints on working from home.

steve barclay.m poor backgrounds the least likely to stay in education and move up the income ladder? the education committee is trying to find answers in a sometimes controversial area. they heard that those children had been overtaken academically by most other ethnicities on low incomes, with only traveller children doing worse. the statistics for children who went on to higher education were stark. the figure for white british kids is, for boys, 13%,forgirls,19%, and is eclipsed by, for example, chinese kids on free school meals, 66%, for black african boys on free school meals, 51%, pakistani boys on free school meals, 42%, and so the differences are enormous. i'd really like you to be as open as possible on this because, often, people refuse to discuss it. why is this the case? why is there this under attainment by disadvantaged white working—class boys and girls compared to many other cohorts? i think in our elitist, exclusive curriculum does not work, as i say, well in enabling working—class

the chief secretary to the treasury steve barclay rebuffed claims earlier that if they had announced key distinction between the support we've had in place, notjust furlough and self—employed but the business grants, tax deferrals, the measures to support cash flow that were set out by the chancellor in his winter plan. and then, as we come to what we recognise will be a difficult winter, having further support for those businesses both that are forced to close and therefore we support workers by the government stepping in with further support, the two thirds support that the chancellor has announced, but also recognising for many businesses, even if they're not required to close, they are impacted by the restrictions and that's why the chancellor has set out the further measures yesterday. business groups have welcomed this and the labour party has to some extent welcomed it but pointed to the fact rishi sunak has already had to change the scheme a month after he announced it and before it's even come into force. the government, ministers, they say the path of the virus has changed,

partly it is by the way the barclays center here in brooklyn is probably not built out of aluminum well the accusations are that there are already steve chair of some place from the us tolerates those aluminum sheets from china and that china is selling this aluminum to germany and those other 70 nations and their way around it comes to the united states so that's the accusation also the international trade commission is having a look at that might be coming up because it was a decision by february and if the commission should say that the accusations are false then maybe germany and those other nations might get that tariff spec. when i ask you about wall street this week markets seemingly driven by one thing in particular and that was the effort for more coronavirus aid in the u.s. what can you tell us. well it was a wild up and down and back and force especially when it came to negotiations about this 8 package on friday u.s. president to donald trump surprised was tweeting gold bricks so obviously he's looking for a big deal the word is said maybe $1.00 trillion dollars so that would get closer to the idea of democrats but that st

partly it is by the way the barclays center here in brooklyn is probably not built out of a well the accusations are that there are already steve chair of some place from the us tolerates those aluminum sheets from china and that china is selling this aluminum to germany and those other 17 nations and that way around it comes back to the united states so that's the accusation also the international trade commission is having a look at that might be coming up because it was a decision by february and if the commission should say that the accusations are false then maybe germany and those other nations might get the tariff spec. ins when i ask you about wall street this week markets seemingly driven by one thing in particular and that was the effort for more coronavirus aid in the u.s. what can you tell us. well it was a wild up and down and back and force especially when it came to negotiations about this 8 package on friday u.s. president donald trump surprised was tweeting gold big so obviously he's looking for a big deal the word is maybe $1.00 trillion dollars so that would get closer to the idea of democrats but that still