Education Secretary says students can go home for Christmas - as it happened

29 September 2020, 08:19 | Updated: 29 September 2020, 13:44

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Education Secretary Gavin Williamson updated students around the country on the status of their university's Covid-19 lockdown.

He delivered a statement in the Commons at 1230pm today where he said the government wanted to let students go home for Christmas and they would be helping to make it happen.

Watch his statement in full at the top of the page.

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