Is a pretty crucial question at the heart of this which is was the government taking concerns about this concrete seriously enough . And what we found out this morning which i think will be really tricky for the government is that ministers were told some years ago that more money was needed to deal with some of these building defects. Considerable increases in can in funding was needed, in fact the opposite happened and funding was reduced and rishi sunak was the chancellor at the time so undoubtedly Prime Minister will be asked whether he took these very seriously enough, whether one of the problem is that is now being faced is that there was not enough funding in the first place. I suppose there is a broader political question at this going to be asked which is has the government Austerity Drive which of course was quite a long time ago now but also some of the ramifications of that, the of that, how is that i had an impact as well . There will be many Opposition Politicians who qui
And it is important once it had that that the government acted on it i as swiftly as possible. Of course i know thei timing is frustrating. But i want to give people a sense of the scale of what we are grappling with here. There are around 22,000 schools. In england and the important thing to know is we are expecting 95 of those schools will not be impacted by this, i around 50 schools have already been mitigated. Another 100 are in the process of being so. 0ur Expectation is in a matter of weeks the bulk of the remaining schools that will have this issue will be identified as well. Also an important context to know is that in many cases this could be limited to a single classroom i for example, so people should have a sense of scale of what might be happening as well. Earlier, a former top Civil Servant at the Department For Education accused mr sunak and the uk treasury of refusing to fund School Repairs adequately, despite being warned that lives were at risk from crumbling concrete
Say they were hit by the firms thirdack as on the expectation of more. We will be in beijing and china. In tokyo to see why japans biggest banks are forecasting a fourth straight dip in profits. Washingtonwill be in as the of work continues over President Trumps dealings with russia and james comey. This is daybreak asia. I am betty liu. Betty liu in new york, where it is just after 7 00 p. M. Yvonne it happens to everyone. It is just after 7 00 a. M. In hong kong. I am shery ahn on tuesday. I have got to say, it is a live it is a live day. Nothing, to be honest, as as whatg happened in the u. S. The s p 500 is close enough 2400. Betty maybe because there was also a lack of Economic News or any really comments in the fed that investors went back to focusing on some old standbys, which, for instance, oil prices. Oil prices routed. And Energy Shares zooming higher. We also saw it on the nasdaq as well as the dow, closing up. It sets us up very nicely for gains in asia. Shery let us see h
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