Gillian Keegan corrected a written answer on Training: Remote Education

17 December 2020 · Commons written answer · Department for Education

Anneliese Dodds (Labour, Oxford East) asked written question 102155 on 12 October 2020. Gillian Keegan answered on 19 October 2020 for the Department for Education, and Gillian Keegan corrected the answer on 17 December 2020. The correction replaced 3 figures (1.2 million, 118,011, 19,564) with 2 figures (1,323,450, 119,000). Altogether 61 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse has been spent on The Skills Toolkit online learning platform in each year since the beginning of that platform.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
The Skills Toolkit was announced in April 2020 and the cost of developing the platform in this financial year is £798,700. This includes the launch and the two subsequent expansions of the platform. A further £325,700 has been spent on communications activities to promote the platform. As of ~~4 October~~ there have been ~~a total of 118,011 starts of the courses on the platform and 19,564~~ course ~~completions.~~ As of ~~11 October, the platform had 1.2 million~~ page views.	The Skills Toolkit was announced in April 2020 and the cost of developing the platform in this financial year is £798,700. This includes the launch and the two subsequent expansions of the platform. A further £325,700 has been spent on communications activities to promote the platform. As of 1 November 2020 there have been an estimated 119,000 course registrations. As of 1 November 2020 there have been 1,323,450 page views. These are experimental statistics and further information can be found in the official statistical release of 27 November 2020 in the following link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.

Original

Corrected

The Skills Toolkit was announced in April 2020 and the cost of developing the platform in this financial year is £798,700. This includes the launch and the two subsequent expansions of the platform. A further £325,700 has been spent on communications activities to promote the platform.
As of ~~4 October~~ there have been ~~a total of 118,011 starts of the courses on the platform and 19,564~~ course ~~completions.~~ As of ~~11 October, the platform had 1.2 million~~ page views.

The Skills Toolkit was announced in April 2020 and the cost of developing the platform in this financial year is £798,700. This includes the launch and the two subsequent expansions of the platform. A further £325,700 has been spent on communications activities to promote the platform.
As of 1 November 2020 there have been an estimated 119,000 course registrations. As of 1 November 2020 there have been 1,323,450 page views. These are experimental statistics and further information can be found in the official statistical release of 27 November 2020 in the following link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.

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