Bangladesh Debate
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Anne Main
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Mrs Main
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what outcomes she expects from her Department's funding through the Manusher Jonno Foundation in Bangladesh.
[Official Report, 22 October 2012, Vol. 551, c. 718W.]
Letter of correction from Alan Duncan:
An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for St Albans (Mrs Main) on 22 October 2012.
The full answer given was as follows:
Mr Duncan
By 2013, the Rights and Governance Challenge Fund, implemented by the Manusher Jonno Foundation, is expected to have enabled 253,000 poor and vulnerable people to benefit from social safety net programmes, 11,700 children to be withdrawn from hazardous work, and 121,000 workers in garments and shrimp industries to be paid on time and have improved working conditions. In 2011 alone, the programme supported 5,755 women to receive government land that is meant to be allocated to poor people, and 7,000 boys and girls to obtain stipends from the government to attend school.
The correct answer should have been: