Penny Mordaunt corrected a written answer on Mediterranean Sea: Refugees
Mr Philip Hollobone (Conservative, Kettering) asked written question 6011 on 7 July 2015. Penny Mordaunt answered on 13 July 2015 for the Ministry of Defence, and Penny Mordaunt corrected the answer on 23 July 2015. The figure 4,752 in the original became 4,747 in the correction, lower by 5. Altogether 2 words differ between the two versions.
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many refugees the Royal Navy has rescued in the Mediterranean (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of all those rescued.
Original and corrected answer
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| Original | Corrected |
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| To date, the Royal Navy has rescued | To date, the Royal Navy has rescued 4,747 persons under its Search and Rescue mission in the Mediterranean. The Royal Navy does not record whether a rescued person is a refugee or an economic migrant; this is the responsibility of the receiving nation (in this instance, Italy). The Ministry of Defence does not hold overall statistics of all those rescued at sea by other nations. |
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Receipt
| Read from | https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/388163?expandMember=true |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
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