All 3 Ministerial Corrections debates in the Commons on 18th Mar 2022

Ministerial Corrections

Friday 18th March 2022

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Ministerial Corrections
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Friday 18 March 2022

Education

Friday 18th March 2022

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Ministerial Corrections
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National Tutoring Programme and Adult Education
The following are extracts from the Estimates Day debate on the National Tutoring Programme and Adult Education:
Robin Walker Portrait Mr Robin Walker
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The Government meet all training costs for young people aged 16 and 17, and this has been extended to the age of 25 for care leavers. [Official Report, 9 March 2022, Vol. 710, c. 387.]

Letter of correction from the Minister for School Standards (Mr Robin Walker):

An error has been identified in the response to the debate on the National Tutoring Programme and Adult Education.

The correct information should have been:

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Robin Walker
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The Government meet all apprenticeship training costs for the smallest employers taking on young people aged 16 to 18, and this has been extended to those aged 19-24 who are care leavers.

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Robin Walker
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We are increasing apprenticeships funding, which will grow to £2.7 billion by 2024-25, and we have already seen more than 164,000 starts in the first quarter of the academic year, which is roughly a third—34%—higher than in the same period in 2020-21 and 5% higher than in 2019-20, before the pandemic. [Official Report, 9 March 2022, Vol. 710, c. 390.]

Letter of correction from the Minister for School Standards (Mr Robin Walker):

An error has been identified in the response to the debate on the National Tutoring Programme and Adult Education.

The correct information should have been:

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Robin Walker
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We are increasing apprenticeships funding, which will grow to £2.7 billion by 2024-25, and we have already seen more than 164,000 starts so far this academic year, which is roughly a third—34%—higher than in the same period in 2020-21 and 6% higher than in 2019-20, before the pandemic.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Friday 18th March 2022

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Ministerial Corrections
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Iran Detainees
The following are extracts from a statement on Iran Detainees on 16 March 2022.
Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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On the subject of Morad Tahbaz, who I spoke to at the end of last year when he was in prison, we have secured his release on furlough. He is now at home. That was an important point that we pressed with the Iranian Government. I know from speaking to him that the conditions in prison were abhorrent and appalling, so he is now in better conditions, but of course we will continue to get him home, as well as other detainees who do not want their names released in public.

[Official Report, 16 March 2022, Vol. 710, c. 945.]

Letter of correction from the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs:

An error has been identified in the response I gave to the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy).

The correct response should have been:

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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On the subject of Morad Tahbaz, we have secured his release on furlough. He is now at home. That was an important point that we pressed with the Iranian Government. I know that the conditions in prison were abhorrent and appalling, so he is now in better conditions, but of course we will continue to get him home, as well as other detainees who do not want their names released in public.

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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The Tahbaz family and I have spoken today. It is a very difficult situation. Morad Tahbaz is of course a tri-national—US, UK and Iranian—and the Iranian Government treat him as being a US national as well as a UK national. We pushed very hard to get Morad out of prison. I spoke to him when he was in prison and he was in appalling conditions. I am pleased to say that I have been in touch today and he is now back at his house—with security in place—with his family in Tehran.

[Official Report, 16 March 2022, Vol. 710, c. 949.]

Letter of correction from the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs:

An error has been identified in the response I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington (Felicity Buchan).

The correct response should have been:

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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The Tahbaz family and I have spoken today. It is a very difficult situation. Morad Tahbaz is of course a tri-national—US, UK and Iranian—and the Iranian Government treat him as being a US national as well as a UK national. We pushed very hard to get Morad out of prison. I am pleased to say that I have been in touch today and he is now back at his house—with security in place—with his family in Tehran.