Transport

Monday 30th September 2019 Ministerial Corrections

Thomas Cook

The following are extracts from a statement on Thomas Cook by the Secretary of State for Transport on 25 September 2019.

[The Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps)]

I would like to update the House with the latest information and give hon. Members a sense of the scale of the operation that has been going on. We have put arrangements in place to bring back 150,000 people, across 50 different countries…

So far, 95% of people have been repatriated to their original point of departure.

[Official Report, 25 September 2019, Vol. 664, c. 689.]

Letter of correction from the Secretary of State for Transport.

Errors have been identified in the statement I made on Thomas Cook.

The correct information should have been:

[The Secretary of State for Transport (Grant Shapps)]

I would like to update the House with the latest information and give hon. Members a sense of the scale of the operation that has been going on. We have put arrangements in place to bring back over 150,000 people to the UK, across 50 different locations…

So far, 95% of people have been repatriated on their original date of departure.