Members about the pandemic and the u. K. s response. This was also the first time the Prime Minister faced questions from new Labour Party Leader keir starmer. Sir hoyle we now come to questions for the Prime Minister. I would like to welcome the Prime Minister back to his rightful place. There is an engagement question. It is good to be back even though i have been away longer than i intended to. I pay tribute to the 107 nhs, 29 care workers and those who sadly died from coronavirus. I know this and perceives of the house is with family and friends, my thanks to thomass hospital for the care that i received. I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition to duties in the house, i will have further such meetings. I now call simon. Thank you, i would like to welcome the Prime Minister back to where he belongs and im sure the house would join me in congratulating him and his fiancee on the birth of their friend. On coronavirus, tourism is crucial to the economy of the
Answering questions from the house of commons live on cspan2. We invite your participation using hashtag pmqs. Members are finishing up a business. Now live to the floor of the british house of commons. Children affected by do mystic abuse. I will go across to chris elmore. I would like to test the minister on relation to older people who are victims of Domestic Abuse, these were reported in 2019, 200,000 people age 6064 were given advice in wales and across the uk, what support is she doing for people who are older and victims . I thank the honorable member for his question. The services that are available to victims of Domestic Abuse in these troubling times and it is helpful to people who have online substances as younger generations. In addition we have 76 Million Pounds in funding to help people with 750 Million Pounds charity that includes victims of Domestic Abuse and marco elongate . The Church Housing association is a charity that provide support and housing to Vulnerable Peop
So, this sounds really loud to me. Does it sound okay to people . Yeah . Hello everybody. Im maya mcginnis. I run the committee for responsible budget. Im pleased you joined us for our forum. Many of you probably know this, but the committee for responsible federal budget is a Bipartisan Organization focused on fiscal responsibility. And if you look at the world right now where the debt is at near record levels, never been this high relative to the economy since world war ii and the deficit is the largest its ever been when the economy is this strong its a really important issue to focus on right now. Im smiling so i dont cry. I was thinking i look really happy. Its a troubling time for fiscal policy. Theres no question about that. Let me just tell you quickly about two projects that we are doing before i kick off our really great panels and speakers for this afternoon. The first project were doing right now is something we do every year on Election Year called u. S. Budget watch. And
Slide 6. Locam i reading it correct its gone down when youre comparing the 18, 19 to the fall of 2019 . This is slide 6 . Yeah. Sorry. Yes. So what this is showing you is the yellow bar is what the 18, 19 school year chronic absenteeism rate and the blue bar is showing what it is in the fall. Right . So our goal is to keep steady at the blue bar which would mean that at the end of this year, our chronic absenteeism rate would go down. Okay. But if we have the jump that weve been seeing over the past three years, it will go up. Okay. Thank you. Does that make sense . We need to it shows how its gone up every year, that slide. This is last year versus midyear and they are trying to maintain yeah. Its a little bit of apples and oranges. Were doing a fall to a year. But this is what were saying is that this is were seeing here is an opportunity we have to hopefully turn back that chronic absenteeism and then for your question, commissioner norton, the last three years of data, and i would
Right now. Good evening, everyone. San Francisco Unified School District provides free cantonese and spanish interpretation tonight for this meeting. So if you know anyone that needs a cantonese or spanish interpreter, please have them find us. We have signs up right here. We also have childcare provided over at the e. P. C. Center. So if you need childcare, please head over to the e. P. C. Center. And the interpreter will repeat this in cantonese and spanish. [speaking Foreign Language] [speaking spanish] thank you. Section b, opening item, approval of the board minutes of the regular meeting of february 11, 2020. We need a motion and a second. So moved. Second. Are there any corrections . Roll call. Thank you. [roll call] speaker cards for the regular agenda and closed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present it to the assistant. Members