power was never used previously to close schools, just guidance from the education secretary, so will he give pupils and parents across the country a cast iron guarantee today that his government will not close schools again this winter? mr speaker. schools again this winter? mr speaker. i schools again this winter? mr speaker, i think the honourable schools again this winter? mr speaker, ithink the honourable lady speaker, i think the honourable lady will agree that we are as a country in a much better place with kobe today then we saw even at the start of this year, and that is down to many factors, a number of those i refer to in my statement. but i believe with the measures we set out today that we can be confident that our children will not have to go again through the kind of disruption that they have seen in the last couple of years. that they have seen in the last couple of years. the distinguishing characteristic couple of years. the distinguishing characteristic of c