Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Wednesday 5th February 2020 Ministerial Corrections

Global Britain

The following is an extract from the statement made by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and First Secretary of State on 3 February 2020.

[Dominic Raab]

It was our honour on Friday to bring home 29 other Europeans on the UK-commissioned charter flight from Wuhan, along with the 97 Britons, because we will always look out for our European friends, with whom we share so many interests. I am grateful to the Spanish Foreign Minister for Spain’s help in co-ordinating that effort and to the French Foreign Minister in relation to the flight that came home on Sunday.

[Official Report, 3 February 2020, Vol. 671, c. 26.]

Letter of correction from the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and First Secretary of State (Dominic Raab).

An error has been identified in the statement I made on Monday 3 February 2020.

The correct statement should have been:

[Dominic Raab]

It was our honour on Friday to bring home 29 other Europeans on the UK-commissioned charter flight from Wuhan, along with the 83 Britons, because we will always look out for our European friends, with whom we share so many interests. I am grateful to the Spanish Foreign Minister for Spain’s help in co-ordinating that effort and to the French Foreign Minister in relation to the flight that came home on Sunday.