good afternoon everybody and thanks for
coming again I want to go through our
overall plan for beating this new
Coronavirus first we must stop the
disease spreading to a point where
overwhelms our NHS and every country in
the world has the same problem this is a
disease that is so dangerous and so
infectious that without drastic measures
to check its progress it would overwhelm
any health system in the world I've used
the Italian Health System it is
excellent and the problem is not with
the health systems it's the numbers of
of sufferers that's why we announced the
steps yesterday that we did advising
against all unnecessary contact steps
that are unprecedented since going to
they will have an effect on the spread
of the disease
the shielding of vulnerable groups will
also reduce suffering and I want to
thank everybody at this stage for what
we're all doing to follow this advice
I've stress that although the measures
announced a really extreme we may well
have to go further and faster in the
coming days to protect lives and the
energy
secondly we're doing all we can and as
quickly as we can to increase the
capacity of the NHS that means more
testing more beds more ventilators and
more trained stuff it means greater
support for NHS and other staff and it
means much better data and much better
technology third you must do all we can
to boost science and research we must
study this disease test drugs that
already exist and have been through
medical trials to see what helps treats
severe cases and search for a vaccine
fourth we must act like any wartime
government and do whatever it takes to
support our economy and that's the main
purpose of this press conference this
afternoon we've got to support millions
of businesses and tens of millions of
families and individuals through the
coming months and to do that the
government machine must and will respond
with a profound sense of urgency
thousands of British officials are
already working round the clock but we
must do more and faster the chancellor
will be saying much more about this in a
moment with further announcements in the
coming days
fifth we will need to strengthen other
public services that will be under great
pressure from the direct and indirect
effects of the disease such as the
events of Staff shortages and and from
economic pressures
all institutions will be under great
pressure and we will therefore invest
hugely in the people that we all rely on
them are rely on and yeah I want to I
want to thank all our public servants
for what they are already doing
ultimate to beat this crisis we will
need a combination of better science
technology medicine data government
operations economic support learning
from other countries and social support
as time goes on we will learn more and
more about the disease and the effects
of our actions
and while we need National Unity we also
need International cooperation
and although we now need to impose
physical distance between ourselves we
must at the same time have closer social
support for each other
yes this enemy can be deadly
but it is also beatable and we know how
to beat it and we know that if as a
country we follow the scientific advice
that is now being given we know that we
will beat it and
however tough the months ahead we have
the resolve and the resources to win the
fight and Droopy this government will do
whatever it takes
pandemic is a public health emergency
but it is also an economic emergency we
have never in peace time face an
economic fight like this one I know that
people are deeply worried I know that
people's anxiety about the disease
itself is mapped only by their anxiety
about their livelihoods last week I set
out an initial economic response in the
budget
I promise to do whatever it takes to
support our economy through this crisis
and that if the situation changed I
would not hesitate to take further
action
and that is what I want to begin doing
today
this struggle will not be overcome by a
single package of measures or isolated
interventions
it will be won through a collective
National effort
every one of us doing all we can to
protect family Neighbors
friends
jobs
this National effort will be underpinned
by government interventions in the
economy on a scale unimaginable only a
few weeks ago
this is not a time for ideology and
Orthodoxy this is a time to be bold
a time for courage I want to reassure
every British system
this government will give you all the
tools you need to get through this
we will support jobs
we will support incomes we will support
businesses
and we will help you protect your loved
ones
we will do whatever it takes
in the budget last week I set out the
first day of our economic response with
a 30 billion pound packages support for
people and businesses
but I also said in the budget that as
the situation involves we would take
further action
as the Prime Minister set out yesterday
we're now approaching the fast growth
part of the upwards curve
he has set out the next stage of our
Public Health response
and so I now wanted to update everyone
on the next day of our economic response
first
the government will stand behind
businesses small and large
I can announce today an unprecedented
package of government-backed and
guaranteed loans to support business to
get through this
today I am making available an initial
330 billion pounds of guarantees
equivalent to 15 of our
that means any business who needs access
to cash to pay their rent their salaries
suppliers they purchase stock will be
able to access a government-backed loan
or credit on attractive terms
and if demand is greater than the
initial 330 billion pounds I'm making
available today I will go further and
provide as much capacity as required
I set whatever it takes I meant it
that support will be delivered through
two main schemes to support liquidity
amongst the larger funds I have today
agreed a new lending facility with the
governor of the bank of England
to provide low-cost easily accessible
commercial paper
to support lending to small and
medium-sized businesses
I'm extending the new business
Interruption loan scheme I announced a
budget last week so that rather than
loads of 1.2 million pounds it will now
provide loads of up to 5 million pounds
with no interest due for the first six
months
both of these schemes will be up and
running by the start of next week
and I'm also taking a new legal power in
the covet Bill to offer whatever further
financial support I decide is necessary
some sectors are facing particularly
acute challenges
in the coming days my colleague the
Secretary of State for transport deny
will discuss a potential support package
specifically for Airlines and airports
and yesterday I asked my cabinet
colleagues to urgently convene meetings
over the coming days with Business
Leaders and representatives in the most
affected sectors to identify other
specific opportunities to support them
and their Industries including possible
regulatory prevails
I repeat we will do whatever it takes
second as well as access to finance
business need support with their cash
flow and fixed costs
following the change medical advice
yesterday there are concerns about the
impact on pubs clubs theaters and other
Hospitality Leisure and Retail venues
let me confirm that for those businesses
which do have a policy for insurance
that covers pandemics that the
government's action is sufficient and
will allow businesses to make an
insurance claim against their policy
but many of those businesses don't have
insurance so we will need to do more
I announced last week that for
businesses in the retail hospitality and
Leisure sectors with a rateable value of
less than 51 000 pounds they will pay no
business rates this year
today I can go further and provide those
businesses in those sectors with an
additional cash Grant of up to 25
000 pounds per business to help bridge
through this period
additionally
I'm also extending today the business
rates Holiday to all businesses in those
sectors irrespective of their rate of
all value
that means every single shop Pub Theater
music venue restaurant and any other
business in the retail Hospitality or
Leisure sector will pay no business
rates whatsoever for 12 months and if
they have a reasonable value of less
than 51 000 pounds they can also now get
a cash Grant as well
I also announced last week that we would
be providing three thousand pound cash
grants to the seven hundred thousand of
our smallest businesses
in light of the new circumstances and to
support their cash flow today I can
increase those cash grants to ten
thousand pounds
taken together on top of the unlimited
lending capacity are already announced
this is a package of direct support to
businesses through tax cuts and grants
in this financial year worth more than
20 billion pounds
and that comes on top of the existing
multi-billion pound package I set out a
budget which included reimbursing small
and medium-sized companies for the cost
of statutory sick pay
local authorities will be fully
compensated for the cost of these
measures and the default administrations
will receive at least three and a half
billion pounds in additional funding as
a result of these measures to provide
support to businesses in Scotland Wales
and Northern Ireland
I repeat again we will do whatever it
takes
third
I will strengthen our support for
peoples and individuals
at budget last week I committed 1
billion pounds to support the Financial
Security of vulnerable people through a
half a billion pound boost in the
welfare system
and a half a billion pound hardship fund
for local authorities
following discussions with the industry
today I can announce that for those in
difficulty due to coronavirus mortgage
lenders will now offer a three-month
mortgage holiday so that people will not
have to pay a penny towards their
mortgage cost while they get back on
their field
and in the coming days
I will go much further to support
people's Financial Security
in particular I will work with trade
unions and business groups to urgently
develop new forms of employment support
to help protect people's jobs and their
incomes through this period
as I said last week this is first and
foremost a public health emergency
and I reiterate today our commitment
that whatever resources the NHS needs it
will get
let no one doubt our resolve when I said
in the budget that we will do everything
we can to keep this country and our
people healthy and financially secure
identity
the measures I've announced today are
part of a comprehensive coordinated and
coherent response to what is a serious
and evolving economic situation
these are only the first steps I will
set out the next stage of our response
in the coming days
we have never faced an economic fight
like this one but we are well prepared
we will get through this and we will do
whatever it takes thank you thanks very
much appreciate you um
thank you very much we'll just go
straight to questions then uh if uh is
Laura who's regularly looking forward to
the bpc
um
Chancellor and prime minister you just
you just um but then I know you said the
loan scheme should be up running next
week you said you'll have more measures
to come up in the coming days but can
you guarantee to firms who need to pay
wages now and families who worry about
paying the rent now that they will not
lose out while you work through the
details of what comes next and a
question if I made Sir Patrick obviously
with scientific advice changed
dramatically in the last couple of days
that you have any regrets about not
taking more Draconian measures sooner
well just on the on the first point
Laura which is to mean to to Rishi
um
the the state is is asking people to do
something uh to make very considerable
changes to their lives and it is only
right therefore that the state should
stand behind people as they make those
changes and that's what the government
that's what a society is about to do is
have to look after people through thick
and thin and to make sure that we get
through this together and that's what
we're going to do
if I just add Laura you're absolutely
right that people should have access to
support their need as quickly as
possible that's why when all the
interventions that we designed at budget
and today we've had an online the
ability to
execute and operationalize them as soon
as possible there's no good having
measures which sound brilliant but
ultimately can't be delivered in time
given the pace of what we're dealing
with what I would say for people who
urgently need help is to do two things
one is to talk to their local
authorities if they're in a quickly
vulnerable position local authorities
are well placed they're providing direct
support through their assistance schemes
and as we announced their budget last
week an extra half a billion pounds is
going local authorities to supplement
the support that they already give and
with regards to their creditors and
Banks we have had extensive discussions
with the banks who understand the
situation that people are in and will
they have assured me provide flexibility
to those people and those circumstances
and understanding
and also to the second question we laid
out at the beginning the package of
measures that would need to be looked at
and we said they need to come in at the
right time and they need to come in the
right combination and
what we've said is that the stage of the
epidemic is now onto the fast last
stroke we are at the stage where these
need to come in they need to come in
forcibly as they have done and that's
the right action to take at the right
time and the other packages that we
talked about the other things that may
be Auto necessary may also need to come
in so that this is a fast-moving
situation in which we need to take the
right decisions at the right time of
this epidemic and it's clearly one
that's a very serious situation
thanks
that's great news
sadly studies question thanks Mr Patrick
um the jewel dropping piece of research
from Imperial College yesterday
suggested that we would go to a surprise
that the only option was to go for a
suppression strategy which could take up
to 18 months and was there for that long
because we were looking for a vaccine is
that how you see it is a vaccine the
goal as you understand it
um Mr sunac you've uh suggested a
package that in part will be valid for
three months is that how long you see
this crisis lasting and you're offering
predominantly loans how are people ever
going to help businesses are going to
pay stuff back given the nature of this
crisis
and prime minister
um some people came away from
yesterday's briefing somewhat confused
about guidance for instance for the
elderly right do you accept that the
buck stops absolutely with you in this
crisis and do you take responsibility
for the actions of your father
right
um
yes so um the work from Imperial clearly
that work's been feeding into Sage since
the very beginning of the process that
Neil Ferguson's on I've been on the sage
committee and so it was something that
we've looked at we asked for we asked
for that piece of work to come through
that particular piece and just to be
clear that what suppression in that
paper refers to is exactly what we've
been talking about which is squashing
this wipe down and making sure that we
give room for the NHS to play and that's
that's what message is in terms of the
time frame this needs to be done
in a way that we can look at releasing
it at some point and seeing what the
effect is none of us anywhere in the
world know how to do that yet in terms
of whether it bounces back or not at
that point so that's what's going to
have to happen after we've got this
under control is to look at how you then
release these measures at the right time
to monitor the effects in terms of
vaccines and vaccines are the answer to
this
it's remarkable the progress that's been
made it's only probably
three or four years ago when the
standard answer would be it takes 20
years to make a vaccine
it's now the case
that there's a vaccine in the UK that
may go into the clinic for first testing
in April I still believe we will be
lucky to get a vaccine for Mass use in a
year from the start of this that would
be extraordinary but there is progress
there are multiple different types of
vaccines and there are other approaches
as well which have been looked at which
may provide protection so there's a lot
going on as the prime minister's prime
minister said it's crucial that we
support that person to get this into the
right place to treat people now maybe
possible with existing drugs and to
promote vaccines
um Sam thanks for the question on on the
freelancing for most holidays I think
that's just that's just one start and
that's just one aspect of the package
obviously as this situation evolves we
will uh you know you're absolutely
everything but I would prefer Patrick
timing for what we believe the rights
for the virus to be um to a broader
point about what's the right shape of an
economic response package I want to
think about it a few different ways you
know one is we've got monetary policy
and then we've got fiscal policy and I
think what you saw last week was you
know in comparison with many
jurisdictions around the world you saw
the UK show a global leadership in a
coherent coordinated appropriately
monetary and Physical policy which I
think has a multiplier effect beyond the
individual measures and I think that was
noticed so I think in that sense there's
been very significant monetary policy
action already you saw that coordination
again today as I said would work on a
very specific killer financing scheme
with the bank of England again showing
that the tools of Economic Policy can
work together to provide support and
then you can Benchmark what we're doing
with other countries around the world
there's a mix of loan schemes are
important because ultimately businesses
need to have liquidity to get through
one of the difficult bridge but we have
unveiled I think what would Benchmark is
a very comprehensive and sizable package
of direct physical support for business
through tax release and cash grants as I
said today if 25 000 pounds for retail
Leisure and Hospitality businesses up to
51k 10 000 pounds per several hundred
thousand businesses eligible for small
business rate relief and that comes on
top of business rates holidays that
we've given to several hundred thousand
businesses compensation for statutory
sick pay and also as I said today we
plan to go further with regard to
employment support and supporting
people's jobs and incomes and we want to
work with business and
achieve that and again that would be
very significant direct physical action
so I think actually you look around
we're doing the right things it needs to
be a balance of all measures but we want
to be invested part of all of them yeah
of course the buck stops has been I take
full responsibility for all the actions
that this government is taking all the
decisions were taking difficult although
many of them are and all the advice
we're giving to to everybody and what
I'd say to uh people who are thinking
about this advice the more we follow the
advice of the uh last night in the
medical advisors and the more closely we
do what they tell us to do the better
our chances collectively of slowing the
disease or protecting the NHS and of
saving life and also of course the
better we can protect our NHS the less
economic damage there will ultimately be
of course people care about pubs and
their right to care about pubs and and
restaurants but uh that is why we're
announcing the package uh the
extraordinary package that Rishi
on build today that is the way that we
should be working together
Robert this
many businesses are facing collapsing
demand particularly in the Leisure
Industries
they also face demands to pay their
taxes from last year's business they
have demands to pay wages
why is your help in the form of debt and
grants that may be repayable when these
business owners have got no confidence
about what the future may hold why not
just say now we will cover your
liabilities and we'll assess all of this
again at some point where the future is
clear clearer because many businesses
May simply decide deceives training
rather than take on more debt which is
what you are offering equally you want
to incentivize people to do the right
thing and go home so why not announce
today how you will make it clear that
they will not be penalized for doing the
right thing and then finally the problem
is that is there ever an urgent reason
to go to the park
right
the what this is a huge package of
support for the business large and and
small and it's it's comes in the form of
standard behind companies uh obligations
by their debts on a huge uh huge scale
but also in making sure they have a cash
flow that they need and uh Rishi is
going through the the figures this is a
quite extraordinary effort to put
liquidity into the economy at a
difficult time but being no doubt that
one day the UK economy is going to
bounce back and those companies uh good
brilliant British companies will bounce
back and that's why we're taking the
steps to protect them until we are today
Robert you're right in terms of
businesses have fixed costs that which
we want the target support and to help
them get through this period if you look
up for most of these businesses one of
their two largest fixed costs it will
largely rent payments and
so on red the various cash grants we've
announced which are not repayable those
aren't Direct Cash grants that is Direct
Cash for businesses at scale relative to
their rateable value you can do an
approximate value rateable value which
is a good approximation for the market
rent that someone might be paying on
their property not Blood Bank diet I
give you that but uh what are the grants
that we have given actually provide a
lot of cover to cover those fixed rental
payments that you mentioned and when it
comes to employees
the right thing the steps of departments
have already announced and I followed up
with in the budget last week made
improvements to how SSP works and indeed
how Esa works and Indian types of people
that it covers so that no one is
penalizing
so you can get access to good welfare or
benefits or SSP they need from day one
if they're self-isolating even though
they're asymptomatic that is covered
under those Provisions as well but what
I did say today as well the other fixed
cost which is to cost of people we want
to look at and we want to develop with
business and the unions a bold and
ambitious employment support package
because we want to provide businesses
with the security that some of that big
fixed cost we can help with because that
ultimately is good for the individual
because it means their income is secure
for a period it's good for the business
but it doesn't have to go out
and it's good for preserving the job so
as a prime minister said we will get
through this and on the other side to
ensure that what was a temporary shock
doesn't become a permanent shot we want
to preserve those jobs so there are
options that are out there to do that
but we will work urgently with unions
and business to figure out the best
possible solution but between the cash
grants to help on the racial value and
then a package on employment support I
think we will address the two largest
fixed costs and fix liabilities that you
talk about that businesses have
thanks uh Jason
thank you Jason the daily mail um
councilor there'll be people who are
being laid off today and Freelancers
having their contracts canceled will you
ask firms to take a moment and look at
this package before taking those sort of
decisions and prime minister you've
spoken about needing to possibly make
more
uh Extreme Measures in the coming days
and weeks a lot of people are very
confused about schools you know parents
have taken their kids to school this
morning they were told last night by you
that they shouldn't mix with their
phones they shouldn't stop for a chat in
their script but their kids can go to
school mix with each other organic and
come home when are you going to close
schools
okay Jason I would say that to those
businesses there's many businesses that
are quite frankly struggling right now
they haven't done anything wrong they've
seen what's happening and they're seeing
their revenues fall off the cliff and
they're anxious about what to do but
what I would say is the package of
support that we announced last week that
the new measures that have announced
today with more to come hopefully should
provide reassurance to all those
businesses to support is on its way in
various forms we are going to help them
get through this so they don't need to
rush into decisions quickly they can
talk their Banks they can look at all
the support that we've outlined today
see what they're eligible for and make
decisions based on that and I think
working collectively through this
together we will get through to the
other side but that's the reassurance
that we want to provide for businesses
we don't want them to have to make those
difficult decisions we want to help them
get through this it's better for them
instead of the economy and it's better
for people
oh in old school so look I understand
completely where people are on schools
and we're keeping that under continuous
uh continuous review
times
um
so Patrick could you help us a little
bit with more inputs to the model
changed uh such that you changed or
escalated the approach
um it's just just take us through some
of the thinking behind it here was it
was it that more ICU capacity was needed
industry and anticipated
Chancellor uh the 20 billion figure is
that on top of the 30 billion figure is
that completely on top of and perhaps
you could just say a little bit more
about this uh employment support is this
essentially the state meeting wage costs
in full or impart
um yeah so the uh model is there to try
and make sure we keep an NHS capacity
and clearly the aim is to make sure that
we save the maximum number of lives and
protect the vulnerable
uh the number of people who may require
better level of proportion of people who
might require ventilation
looks a bit higher because
um the
oxygen on its own
isn't working all the time and therefore
you have more people you may need to go
onto ventilator so that's one thing that
changes the model a little bit and the
second but the main reason was not so
much the change in the model itself but
the place we were in the epidemic to say
we need to get on and accelerate the
moves that we wanted to make in terms of
the implementation so it was a mixture
of timing especially as I said London's
a bit ahead but also some of the model
assumptions as the way you need to get
to get under NHS ventilator and
capacities
as well immediately today whether he was
confident that under the mitigation
leaders that are currently yeah they
were sufficient ventilation
well the model the the work we're doing
about it you see the model so you're
just going to be very careful about
these are models but the measures of
detected that we put in place which are
very big measures as we're discussing
and they require all of us to do them
and I would like to thank everybody who
is already doing them because we need to
do them these are predicted to have a
very major effect on the peak and to
suppress it in a big way and they're not
trivial interventions it doesn't mean
that it won't be necessary to take more
to get it done thanks very much
oh sorry yeah sorry yeah
um yeah these are new they're new
measures or extensions of existing
measures of the total cost which we will
uh outline the details and the guidance
for shortly is incremental uh and to
your point on what we're looking at what
we're trying to do is find a way to help
businesses meet the fixed costs of their
staff without having to let them go
right so what that would involve is some
partnership working between all of us to
see how best we can do that there are
models that are out there from other
countries that you'll be familiar with
the challenge we have is to make sure to
you know answer to law expression
earlier is whatever we do we need to
make sure it can work fast and quickly
and what we can't do is try and reinvent
something or invent something from
scratch that takes too long to get up
the ground so we'll need to we'll need
to work with the grain of what we've got
but we want to be ambitious in that
because we want to provide security to
people we want to provide security to
businesses that they don't have to make
these difficult decisions we can all get
through this together
thank you thanks uh yes the guardian um
to the chancellor 330 past 330 billion
pounds is a very big number are you
confident that you have the capacity the
bank does the treasury does to make sure
the businesses know about these this
scheme and to get money out the door on
the time together that people
are to remain open and claims a lot
about food so Shoppers are arriving in
supermarkets today to find shelves empty
you've tried exhausting the public to
shop sensibly and you've repeatedly said
that you're talking to supermarkets
about this to keep Supply chains working
but what practical steps are you going
to take to make sure what food we need
to read throughout
and then yes we're confident we have the
capacity that we've been working around
the clock to make sure that we can
deliver this as quickly as possible
another set it should be up and running
by the end of this week started next
week uh we will supplement that with an
extensive retail campaign to make sure
that all businesses are aware of what is
available so that they can walk into
their local bank branch next week and
talk to somebody about the coronavirus
business Interruption though uh
you know that's that's our
and Justin on the on the supermarkets
we're absolutely confident that our
supply chains are working and real work
and that we will get a farm to Fork uh
food supplies for this for this country
and therefore people should have no
reason to uh to stockpile or or pay
uh nickel about it later
and partisan British public really want
to do the right thing and but there's
been a lot of confusion about what the
message is and as far as people
understand it that they should be
staying at home as much as possible can
you spell out absolutely what what the
message is but also some of the message
some of the measures that you've
outlined today are are designed to help
people if they lose their jobs
um statutory set pay in this country is
much lower than in a lot of other
European countries
are you confident that there is enough
support available for families who are
worried about what seems to be the
prolonged period
um you know longer than than potentially
initially envisaged and finally because
you you made a joke about a last glass
of attempts to get ventilators
is that appropriate language to be using
in this kind of situation thank you
well first of all on what on the advice
that we're giving and let's be
absolutely clear that what we want to do
is stop the transmission of disease and
so what we're saying to the to the
public is uh avoid all unnecessary
contact that could involve the
transmission of disease that means not
going to places where you might pick it
up pubs restaurants and so avoiding
Gatherings large and small and I think
people do understand that we are seeing
an effect of the advice that we're given
you also know about what we're saying uh
with home isolation staying at home if
you have any of the two key symptoms a
high temperature or a continuous new
cough everybody understands that I hope
seven days if you have uh if you have
one of the two symptoms 14 days if
someone in your household has one of
those two key symptoms and as I say will
be really important further measures
to look after particularly vulnerable
groups to Shield them even more and on
your on your second point I think what I
want more business I want uh to explain
what I think is an end to suffering so
that is why they are working incredibly
hard in the next uh a few weeks and we
really only have a few weeks to build
literally thousands of ventilators in
this country uh will need and it's an
amazing uh the British industry
manufacturers are responding to this
challenge with Incredible energy and
determination
George Barker FD
uh Chelsea set out the wide ranging
series of measures to mitigate the
effects virus on business
um you'll see the US Administration is
talking about sending a check of a
thousand dollars to every individual is
there a Facebook for all that fiscals
Fitness maybe coordinating on a global
basis and so the Prime Minister
um hearing earlier on about insurance
companies and their organizations are
you speaking to the insurance companies
and do you think they're doing enough to
help their customers through this
difficult period
George yeah with regards to physical
stimulus what I said obviously we had a
budget last week that unveiled physical
stimulus of about one percent of GDP
which you know the time was significant
at that said not the difficult it is
yeah yeah that's it of course we'll we
look at these things and we'll respond
as as the economy demands in terms of
coordination you know both the Prime
Minister and I are in regular contact
with our counterparts across the G7 and
the G20 you would see in various
communicators have gone out uh to make
sure that we can be as coordinators we
can of a range of different measures uh
in terms of the right way to do that
there's obviously there's different ways
to do it I in terms of checks to people
as I said I think our employees are
working to see what we can do on the
employment support side is probably my
first preference but if the need arises
for further demand students in general
that we think would be effective you
know we could obviously look at that but
as I talked about at the budget stage
given the particular situation we're
dealing with the typical demand side
actions might not have the same benefit
or you say that they wouldn't normally
have but we of course stand ready to do
what whatever it takes
and sort of on the insurance plus George
um yeah I mean Rashid has been talking
great to the to the insurers but what
were you what we've done is to ensure
that uh you know where uh people have
policies that uh they say that the
insurers might have said only involve a
payout where the as it were they the
insured party has been compelled to to
shut their uh business uh whereas we've
only
urged people to stay away and there's
been some sort of quibble about whether
or not to pay out the insurers who have
stepped up to the plate and they
understood that they have to and they
have to pay out to those to those
businesses
thanks uh oh
I've post
um Chancellor first can ask you the
progress that last week said he wanted
to level with people that things would
be bad in terms of deaths do you want to
level with people today and say how bad
things it's going to be in the economy
of the next 18 months a lot of people
are saying the recession is inevitable
do you think one is inevitable and but
that you're going to try and mitigate
that to put much as possible and two
prime minister if you do close schools
what steps are you going to take to help
children who run free School meals to
stop them going hungry
Paul as I repeat what I said last week
which is even more clear today as a
result of the actions that we're taking
in and how things progressed this will
have a significant impact on our
that's what I said last week I stand by
that but I also understand why what else
I say is you know this will be temporary
right we will get through this and we
will get through it together and the
steps that we're taking mean that we
will emerge together on the other side
able to rebound back to
by all the event interventions that
we're looking at are designed to provide
that bridge through this what will be a
very difficult and challenging period
but get us through this period and so
that we can be there on the other side
to another stronger there after but yes
it will be significant but that's why
we're doing everything we're doing we're
doing whatever it takes to get to get
through it and things will be better in
time thanks yeah on uh free School meals
and you know
as we come to the decision on on schools
we will have
sometimes ready to to go on that Gavin
Williams and education territory and has
a plan to make sure that
um uh Persian kids who are eligible for
free School meals
get the uh the the
compensation or the uh the treatment
they need one way or the other we we
certainly anticipate that and can I just
I think probably we should wrap it up
now because these are daily uh
conversations daily uh press conferences
now and uh I think that she has like a
pretty big uh an important plan uh that
I hope everybody has been able to to
understand and has been able to
interrogate us look what we're doing is
we're asking the public to do some some
pretty big things in in the changes
we're asking asking to to make in our
lives and I understand the effect that
that is going to have on the economy I
just want to repeat that key message
the more seriously the more jealousy the
more the teachers the more scrupulously
we can father the scientific advice that
we've been given
the better we will be able to protect
our NHS the more lives we will be able
to save and the quicker we will get
through this experience and more solely
uh economy will bounce back but in the
meantime as you were gathered this
afternoon we are going to do whatever it
takes thank you very much