Ministerial Corrections
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Business, Innovation and Skills
Charities
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills to which (a) charities and (b) voluntary organisations his Department has provided funding since it was established; and how much funding was provided to each. [247376]
[Official Report, 27 January 2009, Vol. 487, c. 449-50W.]
Letter of correction from Mr. McFadden:
I wanted to advise you that officials in the Department have identified an error made by the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for higher education, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Simon), at the then Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
In the reply given on 27 January 2009, Official Report, column 450W, on departmental funding of charities and voluntary organisations, my hon. Friend referred to some of the Department's non-departmental bodies that are registered charities, and said that the funding provided to the Design Council was as follows:
| £000 | |||
| Name of body | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
Unfortunately, the figures for 2008-09 did not include capital grant in aid funding, or additional funding for specific projects and there was an error in the 2006-07 figure. The correct figures are as follows:
| £000 | |||
| Name of body | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
International Development
Ethiopia
The Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. Douglas Alexander): Twenty-five years after the famine in Ethiopia that killed over a million people, there is once again a growing drought and conflict-related humanitarian crisis in the horn of Africa.
Ethiopia accounts for the highest proportion of the humanitarian caseload in the region, with over 6 million people needing emergency assistance until the end of 2009. A third of these people live in the Somali region of Ethiopia. UNICEF estimates that there are currently over 500,000 acutely malnourished children in Ethiopia. A further 7.5 million vulnerable Ethiopians receive food and cash transfers under a Productive Safety Net Programme.
[Official Report, 19 October 2009, Vol. 497, c. 47-48WS.]
Letter of correction from Douglas Alexander:
An error has been identified in the second paragraph of the written ministerial statement made on 19 October 2009 where it refers to "over 500,000 acutely malnourished children in Ethiopia".
The correct full text should have been:
"Ethiopia accounts for the highest proportion of the humanitarian caseload in the region, with over 6 million people needing emergency assistance until the end of 2009. A third of these people live in the Somali region of Ethiopia. UNICEF estimates that there are currently over 500,000 severely acutely malnourished children in the Horn of Africa, of whom more than half are in Ethiopia. A further 7.5 million vulnerable Ethiopians receive food and cash transfers under a Productive Safety Net Programme."
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