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Coronavirus: Gavin Williamson interview; ENGLAND: London:INT Gavin Williamson MP (Education Secretary) interview via internet SOT. (Part 3 of 4)- Uh, uh, um, my constituents, my constituents obviously are concerned about this as I would expect them to be. Um, my response to, to everyone would be actually, if have been broken, if laws have been broken, um, then the prime minister would be looking at this in a very different light. But the prime minister has been given an assurance that no rules will be broken and no loss of being broken. Um, and, uh, if that's assurance is good enough of a prime minister, that's assurance is good enough for me. - Well, we'd always been the clear to the school sector that we'd give them as much notice as possible about return to schools. That's why two weeks ago, as part of the roadmap, we said the zipper five tests had been met. If the conditions were right, we'd look at a phased return of schools. Um, we, um, have started to have, we've had the scientific evidence, uh, in, uh, we're doing a consultation before, a final decision, uh, on Thursday. Uh, but it looks incredibly promising that we are going to be in a situation, there's on the first of school, uh, 1st of June, the schools are going to be able to return, uh, that will be, uh, nurseries, uh, that will be a year reception gears one years, six in primary school, um, from the 15th of June. Secondary schools are going to be able to have the benefit of returning, uh, from, um, uh, in a phase manner for years. 10 and 12. - Yeah. Well, so what we'd, what we'd done is with worked with public health England in terms of development of the guidance as to how best to sort of do a do that. But the real emphasis actually of all the guidance is creating protective bubbles around that class. So we recognise, and um, I'm not sure if you have children yourself, but I, uh, I have children myself and we do recognise that B, uh, always been able to keep complete, uh, uh, compl...