The Ulez charge affects most diesel cars registered before 2015 and most petrol cars registered before 2006, not pre-2015 petrol and pre-2006 diesel as we wrongly said.

■ August 27, 2023 

We said that full costs of medical treatment abroad were applicable even to those who travel with a Global Health Insurance Card or GHIC (Money, Aug 13). In fact the card entitles the carrier to care on the same basis as local residents in participating countries, but in practice not all medical facilities accept the GHIC. We are happy to make this clear.

■ August 20, 2023

Whole life orders as a starting point in the sentencing of murderers of police officers came into force in 2015, not 2020 as we wrongly said (Comment, last week).

■ August 13, 2023

In our digital edition, a picture caption wrongly stated that John Caldwell of the Police Service of Northern Ireland was shot dead.  Detective Chief Inspector Caldwell was seriously wounded in the attack but survived.  The caption has been amended and we apologise for the mistake. (Comment, this week)

Rolls Royce nuclear reactors use pressurised water technology, not boiling water technology as we wrongly said (Business, last week).

■ August 6, 2023

The Open golf tournament is organised by the R&A, not DP World Tour as we wrongly said (News, July 23).

We said per capita income in the US state of Mississippi has risen by 25 per cent in the last five years, and in Britain real wages and living standards have not grown since 2007 (“We’re missing a trick by not being like Mississippi”, News Review, last week). The comparison was misleading because the Mississippi figures were not adjusted for inflation, which accounted for a large proportion of the increase. We have also been asked to point out that data from the Office for National Statistics indicates that British living standards have risen since 2007, albeit slowly by historical standards. The same article included a graph that compared per capita GDP in Mississippi and the UK: again the Mississippi figures were not adjusted for inflation and therefore the graph was misleading.

■ July 15, 2023

We said the organisation 38 Degrees allowed people to send pre-composed emails to their MP (Magazine, last week). 38 Degrees has informed us it does not provide template emails for users, whose messages are their own. We are happy to make this clear.

■ July 02, 2023

We said seven protesters campaigning to save trees in Sheffield were paid £24,300 by Yorkshire police (News Review, last week). The force that made the payment was South Yorkshire police. We are happy to make this clear.

■ June 25, 2023

The song Naatu Naatu was introduced at the Oscars by Deepika Padukone, not by Alia Bhatt as we wrongly said (Style, last week).

■ May 28, 2023

We said rural Transylvania is mostly Hungarian-speaking (News, last week). While this is true of two counties, including the one where King Charles’s Zalanpatak house is located, Romanian-speakers form a majority across the region.

The restaurant chain Café Rouge is closing branches but is not in receivership, as we wrongly said (News Review, last week).

■ May 6, 2023

We said that Boris Johnson asked Richard Sharp to help facilitate a loan (Comment, last week). While Adam Heppinstall KC’s report on the matter said Mr Sharp attempted to introduce a Canadian businessman to the cabinet secretary, and the businessman went on to guarantee an £800,000 loan to the prime minister, it did not find that Mr Sharp attempted the introduction at the prime minister’s request. We are happy to make this clear.

■ April 30, 2023

Just Stop Oil’s avowed aim is for the government to stop licensing all new oil, gas and coal projects, not to end all hydrocarbon use in the next two years as we said.

■ April 2, 2023

We said Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP had argued that children should be taught how to do “risky sex acts safely” (Comment, last week). Mr Russell-Moyle has informed us that when he said he wished his 15-year-old nephew had been “taught about risky sex acts ... and how to make sure he did things safely”, he meant that children should be taught to have sex safely and that there should be protections to ensure risky acts are not promoted. We are happy to make this clear.

We said the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill was blocked by royal assent (Culture, last week). In fact the bill was blocked by the Scotland secretary before it could receive royal assent.

Wales and Scotland did not abolish school inspections in the early 2000s as we claimed (Comment, last week).

We said the former MP Michael Dugher still has a parliamentary pass (Comment, last week). In fact he gave up his pass in 2022 after his continuing parliamentary access was publicised in the press.

■ March 19, 2023

An article said those who pay higher rate tax receive 40 per cent tax relief on all pension contributions (ISA Special, last week). In fact only contributions from income taxed at 40 per cent receive this rate of relief.

We said that Gary Lineker compared government immigration policy to Nazi Germany (News, last week). In fact he likened the language used about the policy to that used in Germany in the 1930s. We are happy to make this clear.

■ March 12, 2023

Further to our article on Tiktok (News Review, last week) the company has informed us that Beijing Douyin Service Ltd has no visibility or control over any other global business, including TikTok; that the blackout challenge pre-dates TikTok and it has never found any evidence of this type of content trending on its platform; that facial, body and voice information are used for filters, effects and for safety, not to identify unique individuals; and that keystroke pattern recognition is used to identify malicious actors such as bots, without capturing the content of what is being typed.

■ March 5, 2023

We wrongly said Birmingham city council was a client of Subrosa, a private security company hired to catch fly-tippers (News, last week).

■ February 26, 2023

We said that 58 academics wrote an open letter demanding Nigel Biggar’s Ethics and Empire programme be shut down (Books, Culture, Feb 5). In fact that demand came from one of the signatories in a separate tweet. The academics’ letter as published said that the ideas and aims of the programme were not those of most scholars. We are happy to put the correct position on record.

We said that Philip Hammond wrote an article for the Chinese Communist Party newspaper China Daily (Comment, last week). Mr Hammond has informed us that the article was an edited transcript of a speech that was published without his permission, and China Daily has now removed it from its website and apologised. We are happy to set the record straight.

■ February 12, 2023

An article on the Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood wrongly quoted Erik ten Hag, the club’s manager, saying, “Let’s wait for the judgment. If he’s proven innocent, he would get a place in my team” (Sport, last week). Mr ten Hag has informed us he never used those words. We are happy to set the record straight.

We said the government of David Lloyd George outlawed the sale of honours (Comment, last week). In fact, Stanley Baldwin was prime minister when the legislation was passed in 1925.

We said the drug liraglutide, marketed as Saxenda, is prescribed for both weight loss and diabetes (News, last week). Saxenda is used for weight loss only; Victoza, a different dosage of liraglutide, is used for type 2 diabetes. We also said that webinars sponsored by the drug company Novo Nordisk did not list side effects for Saxenda. In fact, side effects were noted in the presentation

■ February 5, 2023

The Canadian city of Vancouver sits on the Fraser River, not the Columbia as we wrongly said (Travel, last week).

■ January 15, 2023

We said Professor Keith Vickerman discovered surface antigens on malaria parasites (Magazine, Jan 1). In fact he found them on trypanosomes, protozoa involved in sleeping sickness.

■ January 8, 2023

We reported a claim that only men had been promoted during Professor David Crossman’s tenure as Dean of St Andrews University’s School of Medicine (“Nicola Sturgeon’s chief scientist ‘presides over an old boys’ club at St Andrews faculty’” News, September 26 2021 ). We have been asked to make clear that this claim applied only to professorships at the school of medicine, and we are happy to do so.

■ January 1, 2023

We said the broadcaster Samira Ahmed won apologies from the BBC over gender pay inequality at the corporation (Culture, Dec 4). We acknowledge that while the BBC did apologise to Carrie Gracie and for gender pay inequality in general, it did not apologise to Ahmed. We are happy to set this on record and have amended the original article.

■ December 4, 2022

Dipak Nandy was a lecturer at Leicester University, not Leeds University as we wrongly said (Magazine, last week).

■ November 6, 2022

An article headlined “Japanese giant still stamping on Post Office victims”, published on May 16, 2021, incorrectly reported that Michael Keegan was the chief executive of Fujitsu UK who had described the Horizon System as “Fort Knox” to the former CEO of the Post Office. This was, in fact, conjecture on the part of The Sunday Times. The former CEO of the Post Office has since confirmed that Michael Keegan was not the Fujitsu CEO she had referred to. This correction has been published following an upheld complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

An article headlined “Will justice finally be DELIVERED?”, published on February 27, 2022, alleged that Michael Keegan, the former chief executive of Fujitsu UK, played a “central role in its dealings” with the Post Office as it “fought the sub-postmasters” and the organisation “decided to fight them in the court”. Mr Keegan had operational responsibility during some of the relevant period but denies having had any direct operational involvement with the Post Office as it entered into litigation against the sub-postmasters, and there is no public record of his involvement. This correction has been published following an upheld complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

We reported that Gordon Ramsay sacked 500 staff instead of furloughing them during the pandemic (Table Talk, last week). In fact only 111 of 760 staff were made redundant. We apologise for the mistake.

■ October 30, 2022

The Dragon’s Back ridge shown in an award-winning landscape photograph is in the Peak District, not the Brecon Beacons as the caption wrongly said (Magazine, last week).

We said the rise in the average two-year fixed mortgage rate from 2.25 per cent to 6.52 per cent meant that typical monthly payments on a £400,000 mortgage had increased by £1,529 (Money, last week). In fact a typical increase would be about £1,005.

■ October 23, 2022

Leon Brittan was never chancellor of the exchequer, as we wrongly said (News, last week). He held offices including home secretary and chief secretary to the Treasury.

■ October 9, 2022

Further to our review of a biography of Boris Johnson (Books, last week), Tom Bower has asked us to make clear that he visited Johnson’s late mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, in October 2019, several months before the start of the first Covid lockdown.

■ September 11, 2022

Our Magazine cover story “The making of a dictator” (November 21, 2021) included a photograph wrongly captioned as showing Xi Mingze and Peng Liyuan, President Xi’s wife and daughter. We apologise to Si Catherine Chen and Noelle Xi for wrongly identifying them.

■ August 28, 2022

The gun fired from Edinburgh Castle at 1pm is a 105mm field gun, not the medieval cannon Mons Meg as we wrongly said (Travel, last week).

■ August 21, 2022

In his Sport column last week Rod Liddle wrote that Scottish and National League football results were no longer given in the BBC’s Sports Report programme. In fact they are still included. We apologise for the error.

■ August 7, 2022

A column by Kemi Badenoch referred to the closure of the Tavistock clinic (News, last week). We have been asked to point out that, while its gender identity service (GIDS) is to close, the Tavistock’s other services will remain open. We are happy to set this on record.

■ July 24, 2022

We reported (News, last week) that an online portal for council funding applications due to open on May 31 was still not operational. The levelling-up department has informed us that the portal in fact opened on July 15. We are happy to correct the record.

■ June 19, 2022

Contrary to the impression given by the headline “Phones tycoon cuts support to the Tories” (News, last week), John Caudwell has not withdrawn support for the Conservative Party. He expressed disappointment with Boris Johnson’s economic record. We apologise for any embarrassment caused.

We said that Westfield Autonomous Vehicles was the maker of the POD vehicles at Heathrow airport (Business, last week). In fact the PODs were designed by Ultra Global Ltd and manufactured by ARRK.

■ June 12, 2022

An article on UK employment referred to an exodus of 200,000 EU citizens in the last two years (editorial, May 29). The number of EU nationals working in the UK fell by this amount in the two years to March 2022; the number of EU citizens residing in the UK rose slightly over the previous two years.

A photograph showed Princess Alexandra, the Queen’s cousin, not the Duchess of Kent as the caption wrongly stated (News, last week).

■ June 5, 2022

We wrongly said that 67 per cent of Britain’s potatoes are imported from the EU (News, last week). In fact 70 per cent of potatoes consumed here are grown in the UK.

■ May 1, 2022

We said the investor coalition Climate Action 100+ was planning to vote on motions at the annual general meeting of the building supplies firm CRH (Business, last week). In fact it had flagged the motions for its members to consider voting on. Climate Action 100+ does not take a formal position on shareholder voting.

■ April 10, 2022

We have been asked to point out that, contrary to our article “The man who lost America” (Sport, last week), William Walters did not act as a bookie for Phil Mickelson. We are happy to make this clear.

■ March 20, 2022

We said that Gordon Brown’s government introduced the Tier 1 visa programme for foreign investors (News, March 6). Mr Brown states that the scheme was a rebranding of existing regulations and did not bring about any changes to the financial criteria required for investors; and points out that it was a later government that allowed those who invested £10 million or more in the UK to apply for citizenship after two years. We are happy to make this clear.

The column “A history lesson that floats my boat: the stories of British slave rescues we never hear about” (Jeremy Clarkson, Comment, February 14, 2021) said it was reckoned that the Royal Navy’s operations to end the slave trade cost more than Britain had earned from earlier slaving enterprises. We have been asked to point out that the consensus among historians is that this was not the case, and we are happy to set this on record.

■ February 20, 2022

In an interview (Home, Feb 6) and subsequent news story, we reported Kirstie Allsopp as saying, “I get enraged when people say they can’t afford to buy.” We are happy to accept that Ms Allsopp in fact said, “I get enraged when people say that young people can’t buy”, and that she has spent much of her career helping young people find homes they can afford to buy.

We reported that two thirds of Scots think Police Scotland is failing on crime (Scotland, last week). In fact, 38 per cent of people surveyed had confidence in Police Scotland while a further 31 per cent said they did not know. Police Scotland conducted the survey, not the Scottish Police Authority as we said. We apologise and are happy to set the record straight.

Our article "Police pursue 'thought crimes'" (Scotland, Feb 6) reported that Police Scotland interviewed Nicola Murray, the head of the Brodie's Trust domestic abuse support group, about a reported hate crime. The police have now confirmed that she was not the subject of a complaint or investigation, and state that she was visited in connection with an unrelated matter.

■ February 13, 2022

We said a Focaldata poll showed Rishi Sunak had the best chance of reaching voters in red wall seats (News, last week). We have since been made aware that, while the poll showed a lead for Sunak when first and second preferences for prime minister were combined, it showed him behind Boris Johnson on first preferences alone. We are happy to make this clear.

The shipping line MSC has the capacity to move 4.3 million 20ft containers, not 4.3 billion as we wrongly stated (Business, last week). A caption indicated that a photo showed workers enjoying a lunchtime drink at Leadenhall Market, in the City of London (Business, last week). In fact the photo was taken after working hours. We apologise for the error.

■ January 23, 2022

We stated that Christine Lee donated more than £600,000 to the MP Barry Gardiner and funded members of his staff (News, last week). In fact the payments, which were closer to £500,000 over several years, were used entirely to fund staff. There is no implication that Mr Gardiner directly benefited from the payments. We are happy to make this clear.

■ December 26, 2021

The Metropolitan Police have asked us to make clear that, contrary to the headline “It’s your job to stop men attacking women, Crown actress tells police” (News, December 12), Claire Foy said it was the responsibility of all men to challenge violence towards women.

We said the footwear chain Schuh had learned it will be dumped by Nike (Business, last week). Schuh denies this and says Nike has not discontinued supplying it and it will continue to have access to Nike products.

■ December 19, 2021

We said the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) had routinely missed chances to investigate cases properly (News, October 24). The CCRC disagrees with this and states that in the past decade only 18 CCRC cases out of the 291 that have been referred for appeal were initially rejected by the CCRC; and ten of those 18 cases related to a single CCRC review. We are happy to put this on record.

■ December 12, 2021

We wrongly said that the Republic of Ireland will require visitors from Northern Ireland to have a negative Covid test before entering the country (News, last week). Northern Ireland is exempt from the restrictions.

The 2017-19 examination results from Saint Martin’s School were mistakenly attributed to Solihull Senior School (Parent Power, last week). Saint Martin’s and Solihull School merged in 2020. We apologise for the error.

■ November 21, 2021

An interview with Lord Botham wrongly named the former chairman of Yorkshire county cricket club as Richard Hutton (Sport, last week). It should have referred to Roger Hutton. We apologise for any confusion caused.

■ November 14, 2021

A collection of Fabergé items to be sold by Christie’s belonged to the late Harry Woolf, founder of the Underwoods chain of chemists, not Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice, as we wrongly stated (News in Brief, last week). We apologise for the error.

■ October 31, 2021

We wrongly said that a £1 Premium Bond has a one in 34,500 chance of winning a £1 million prize in the monthly draw (Money, October 10). In fact that is the probability of winning a £25 prize.

A winning entry in the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards (Magazine, last week) showed Kilchurn Castle, not Dunnottar Castle as the caption stated.

■ September 19, 2021

We said that Keir Starmer had written a 14,000-word mission statement with the help of Paul Ovenden and Philip Collins (News, last week). Philip Collins states that this was not the case and that he did not help to write the statement. We are happy to put this on record.

■ September 5, 2021

Our graphic “Taliban’s new arsenal” (News, last week) showed equipment supplied by the US to Afghan armed forces since 2001. How much of it is now in Taliban hands is not known. We regret any confusion caused.

■ August 22, 2021

The interview with Mary Trump in the Magazine last week incorrectly stated that her mother had died in 2001. In fact Linda Lea Clapp is alive and well. We apologise for the error.

■ August 15, 2021

Further to our article “Animals are sentient? Of course farmers want such a notion sent for slaughter” (Comment, August 1) the National Farmers Union has asked us to point out that it is broadly supportive of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. We are happy to do so.

Our article on incidents at Wimbish School in Essex (News, June 27) referred to a pupil being expelled. We have been informed that the expulsion was subsequently quashed by an independent review panel. We are happy to make this clear.

Our article “Race hate crimes on the rise in Scotland” (News, last week) stated that 4,687 cases of racially aggravated harassment or conduct crimes were recorded in Scotland in 2020-21, an increase of 6 per cent on the previous year. In fact, the number of cases was 1,782, a rise of 2 per cent. We apologise for the error.

A report on motorcycle safety (News, last week) wrongly referred to Cal Phillips as the daughter of Yvonne Motherwell. Cal Phillips is her son. We apologise for the error and the distress it caused.

■ August 1, 2021

Scotland’s Land Reform Act granted public access to Scottish lochs but it did not allow fishing without permission from the rights holder, contrary to the impression given in our article on the North Coast 500 (Travel, last week).

■ July 25, 2021

A recent offer to buy the supermarket chain Morrisons was worth £6.3 billion, rather than £6.3 million as we wrongly stated (Business, last week).

■ July 4, 2021

Our column “The culture war is a conflict no one meant to start” (Comment, last week) incorrectly described Cecil Rhodes as a slave-owner. Slavery had been abolished in the British Empire before Rhodes was born. We apologise for the error.

Our article “The e-money ‘banks’ that charge 99p when you pay by card” (Money, last week) wrongly stated that MoneyMona is the trading name of Contis Financial Services. The two companies are entirely separate. Contis is a card issuer and payment processor that does not set fees for card users. We apologise for the error.

Our article “Gender clinic ‘converting’ gay children” (News, June 20) stated that a High Court judgment in 2020 banned the use of puberty-blocking drugs. The judgment in fact said it was unlikely that children under 16 could give informed consent to their use, and the NHS responded by halting referrals for such drugs. We are happy to make this clear.

■ June 6, 2021

Contrary to the implication of an article in Best Places to Live (March 28), Broughty Ferry is on the same side of the Tay estuary as Dundee. We apologise for the confusion.

■ May 16, 2021

We stated that Extinction Rebellion demands that the government make illegal all carbon emissions by 2025 (Comment, March 28). We have been asked to point out that the group’s demand is for the government to act now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025. We are happy to make this clear.

■ April 25, 2021

Our story “Forced to mourn alone, the Queen bids Philip goodbye” (News, last week) made reference to an offensive remark made by the Duke of Edinburgh during a visit to China. We did not intend to condone the remark. We apologise for the offence caused.

In “Heywood nominated Greensill for CBE” (News, April 4) we reported incorrectly that Jeremy Heywood, the former cabinet secretary, had worked for Morgan Stanley for five years before returning to the civil service in 2008. He was in fact there for three-and-a-half years, returning in 2007. We apologise for the error.

Contrary to the impression given in our article “David Cameron rode the wave of Covid to target the NHS” (News, last week), Sir David Dalton was not a member of the Advisory Board of Earnd. His role as a paid advisor to the company started in June 2020, three months after he gave an interview which expressed support for salary demand scheme technology generally, without specifying any provider. Sir David states that there was no connection between this interview and his appointment. We are happy to make this clear.

■ March 28, 2021

Lord Palmer has asked us to point out that his family sold its interest in the company Huntley & Palmers to Nabisco, not to RJ Reynolds Tobacco (News, last week). RJ Reynolds acquired Nabisco the following year. He has also asked us to point out that Huntley & Palmers was founded by his great-great-uncle, not his great-grandfather. We apologise for the errors.

■ March 21, 2021

Recent surveys show that 15 per cent of Poles never attend church, not 50 per cent as we wrongly stated (World News, last week).

■ March 7, 2021

The “letter of assurance” against prosecution received by the IRA member John Downey was not part of the Good Friday agreement, as we wrongly stated (News Review, last week). Such letters were provided by the UK government after the agreement was signed.

■ February 28, 2021

The new lay member of the House of Commons committee on standards will not be considering claims of bullying and harassment, as we wrongly claimed (Atticus, Comment, February 21). Such cases will be dealt with by a separate body, the Independent Expert Panel.

We said that no members of the Scotland rugby team took the knee before their international against England earlier this month (Sport, February 14). In fact, four players did so.

■ February 14, 2021

Following our report “Battle looms as Oxford prepares to topple Rhodes” (News, last week), Oxford University has asked us to make clear that the decision on whether to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes will be made by Oriel College rather than the university itself. We are happy to do so.

The same article wrongly stated that a Benin Bronze statue of a cockerel is to be returned to Nigeria by St John’s College, Cambridge. In fact the statue will be returned by Jesus College.

The article also stated that Rhodes made money through a company that used slave labour. We have been asked to make clear that the term “slave labour” was intended to describe the oppressive and degrading conditions for workers who were paid for their labour.

The Mauritanian is wrongly attributed as a Netflix film in today’s Magazine. We apologise for the error.

■ January 17, 2021

The item “Dance your way out of this row, folks” (Rod Liddle, Comment, September 13), which mistakenly stated that no opinion polls were available on the level of popular support for the Black Lives Matter movement, was also wrong to imply that information was being withheld from the public. We have been asked to point out that the polls that were conducted found a wide range of views, not supporting the writer’s suspicion that the mass of the public finds the movement repellent. We are happy to make this clear.

Our report “KPMG hired to unearth Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk’s ‘dodgy deals’” (Business, November 22) said that Jay Hambro was “running” IRC Limited. Mr Hambro does not run IRC Limited, having resigned as Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer in January 2016, and he was not running the company during the period covered by Petropavlovsk PLC’s investigation. We are happy to make this clear.

■ January 4, 2021

David Walsh’s column on doping in horse racing (Sport, December 27) mistakenly used a photograph showing the filly Anapurna with Mark Weinfeld of The Meon Valley Stud. Mr Weinfeld, the stud and the filly have never been associated with doping, and no such implication was intended. We apologise for the distress caused.

■ January 3, 2021

Our article “Mitie merger maestro ousted” (Business, November 29) wrongly stated that Karen Thomas-Bland had been dismissed from her role as Mitie’s programme integration director after the chief executive, Phil Bentley, lost faith in her performance. The decision to leave Mitie was Ms Thomas-Bland’s own. She resigned her position amicably as she had completed her work on this project. The company has said in a statement that “she has decided to focus on new challenges and ... leaves with our thanks”, having “laid all the foundations for a successful integration”. We apologise to Ms Thomas-Bland for this error.

■ December 13, 2020

The article “My rocket is bigger than yours” (Magazine, November 29) failed to acknowledge the journalists Chris Davenport and Tim Fernholz as sources for some of the material. We apologise for the omission.

■ December 6, 2020

The article “Private hospital was paid £6.3m to receive a single NHS patient” (News, last week) was based on unchecked data, which was later found to contain errors. Circle Health treated patients across 53 facilities, not two as stated. Transform Hospital Group treated more than 1,500 patients, not one as stated, and did so on a not for profit basis. We apologise to the providers concerned.

■ November 15, 2020

Our report “England’s ‘Little Scotland’ wants say in any referendum” (News, August 30) stated that more than half of Scottish voters backed independence and that 55% hoped to secede from the Union. The article should have made clear that these figures were based on a single Panelbase poll, and did not include the 7% of respondents who were undecided: with these included, 51% favoured independence while 42% opposed it.

A projection of Covid-19 infections shown by Sir Patrick Vallance on September 21 was referring to reported cases, not overall infections (Dominic Lawson, Comment, last week). The projection suggested cases per day might rise to 49,000 by mid-October; the actual figure was close to 20,000. We are happy to make this clear.

■ November 8, 2020

Ollie Ollerton did not serve in the army, as we wrongly stated (Money, last week). He served in the Royal Marines and the Special Boat Service, which are parts of the Royal Navy.

■ October 25, 2020

Our article “Hard left infiltrates Greta’s UK army” (News, September 6) said that activists did not have the support of Dr Rupert Read, spokesman for Extinction Rebellion. The activists referred to were hard-left infiltrators; Dr Read fully supported the Extinction Rebellion action at printing plants, and believes any attempts at infiltration were unsuccessful. We are happy to make this clear.

Tom Bower’s biography of the prime minister does not state that Stanley Johnson allowed his wife one dress a year and visited lovers every night, as we wrongly suggested (Culture, last week): this was a reference to Stanley’s father, Johnny Johnson. We have also been asked to make it clear that an argument concerning the use of Stanley Johnson’s phone did not involve Stanley himself. We are happy to do so.

■ October 04, 2020

We reported that an investigation had begun following allegations of animal cruelty on Fetlar (News, May 17).  The owners of Fetlar Farm, Neil Bellis, Juliet Bellis and Lucy Cummings, have confirmed that there was no investigation of cruelty and any investigation was in respect of animal welfare issues. 

While the article reported that islanders “disputed” that improvements had been made, the owners of the farm have confirmed that they had fully co-operated with appropriate agencies and all remedial actions pursuant to the animal welfare investigation were completed by the end of March 2020.

On August 19, 2020 the Animal and Plant Health Agency (which had its final inspection of Fetlar Farm delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic) confirmed that the owners of the farm are in compliance with recommended improvements.

The article also reported that the Serious Fraud Office had investigated the activities of a subsidiary of a former company of Neil Bellis and Lucy Cummings. The inquiry was in respect of an individual employee, subsequently convicted of fraud, and Mr Bellis and Ms Cummings were not party to those offences. We are happy to make these clarifications and apologise to Mr and Mrs Bellis and Ms Cumming.

The City of London Corporation has not been silent on the impact of the working-from-home movement, as we wrongly alleged (Luke Johnson, Business, last week). The corporation has made a number of statements on the subject. We apologise for the error.  

■ September 20, 2020

The item “Dance your way out of this row, folks” (Rod Liddle, Comment, last week) wrongly stated that no opinion polls are available on the level of popular support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In fact a number of polls on this subject have been conducted by agencies including YouGov and Opinium. We apologise for the error.

■ August 14, 2020

On Saturday July 4, Times Online briefly published a photograph of graffiti on the hoarding around Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square before being informed that it had been photoshopped. We apologise for the mistake.

■ July 12, 2020

Our report “Pupils may sit only five GCSEs as state schools play catch-up” (News, last week) failed to make clear that the Harris Federation’s plans to reduce the number of GCSEs taken at its schools apply only to a minority of pupils. We apologise for any confusion and are happy to set the record straight.

Our report “Fashion giant faces ‘slavery’ investigation” (News, last week) referred to premises displaying the sign Jaswal Fashions. Jaswal Fashions has advised that it ceased operating a clothing business at the premises in November 2018 and never undertook work for Boohoo. We are happy to make this clear.

Our review of The Great Imperial Hangover (Books, Culture, last week) said that the author had characterised the EU as a “post-imperial empire”. The words he used were “post-imperial project”. We apologise for the error.

■ June 28, 2020

The software used by Professor Neil Ferguson to model the Covid-19 pandemic was peer-reviewed, contrary to the statement in our article “Let’s never have another shutdown” (Business, June 14). We are happy to make this clear.

■ May 31, 2020

Our column “Let’s Zoom Xi. He has questions to answer” (Comment, April 5) stated that available records suggested direct flights continued to leave from Wuhan to destinations in Europe and America after the city went into lockdown on January 23. Further investigation, and other records that have come to light since the column was written, show that flights to these destinations due to depart from Wuhan after that date were either cancelled or departed from Guangzhou. We are happy to make this clear.

■ May 10, 2020

Contrary to the impression given by our headline “Send us boiler suits, plead NHS bosses at hospitals with no gowns” (News, last week), hospitals in Devon had not run out of gowns last Sunday. We apologise for the error.

■ May 3, 2020

Because of an editing error, an article on Vladimir Putin (Magazine, March 29) referred to US sanctions being imposed against Gunvor Group. They were in fact imposed against Gennady Timchenko, co-founder of Gunvor. We apologise for the mistake.

Our report “Set free healthy over-seventies, say doctors” (News, last week) referred to 1.8 million people classified as “clinically vulnerable” to Covid-19. In fact this group is officially categorised as “clinically extremely vulnerable”. We apologise for the error.

■ April 19, 2020

Because of an editing error, an article on Antarctica (Travel, April 12) said that Captain Scott’s last words were written in his hut on Cape Evans. In fact they were written in his tent. We apologise for the mistake.

■ March 25, 2020

On March 10 2019, our online edition published a graph indicating that 81% of students at Cardiff University School of Medicine were not from the UK. The graph was incorrect and should not have been published: Cardiff Medical School in fact complies with the 7.5% cap applied to non-EU students. We apologise for the error, which was due to a mistake in the production process.

■ March 15, 2020

Our report “Revealed — A-level results are 48% wrong” (News, August 11) stated that two out of five teenagers who sat essay-based subjects at A-level might be awarded the “wrong” grade. Ofqual argues that the word “wrong” misrepresents the results of its research; that variation in grades is due to the intrinsic subjectivity of marking humanities subjects; and that the true proportion of grades awarded in error is 1.2%. We are happy to make this clear. This correction has been published following an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation.

■ March 1, 2020

Our article “House of Lords expenses spiral out of control” (News, last week) stated that Lord Cunningham was not a member of any House of Lords committees. In fact he was a member of three committees during the 2017-19 session. It also stated that the Lords voted in February to award themselves a 3.1% pay rise. No such vote took place, as the Lords’ attendance allowance was indexed to MPs’ pay in 2018. We apologise for the errors.

■ February 16, 2020

Our article “Big investors are cashing in profits in star fund bosses — should you?” (Money, January 19) reported that Fundsmith does not publish the Fundsmith Equity Fund annual accounts online. There is no obligation on the company to do so and it does publish a shortened version of the accounts on the fund’s website and provides the full annual accounts on request. We are happy to make this clear.

■ January 19, 2020

Our article on vertical farming (News Review, last week) contained inaccurate measurements. The Jones Food Company’s vertical farm in Lincolnshire covers 53,000 sq ft, not 5,000; and the urban farm in Paris will cover 160,000 sq ft, not 15,000.

■ December 15, 2019

In Where Was I? (Travel, December 1), an answer was given as the Church of the Holy Rood. It should have been the Church of the Holy Rude. We apologise for the error.

■ December 8, 2019

Contrary to the impression given by our story (News, last week), the proposed railway redevelopment at Teignmouth, Devon, is still subject to consultation and has not received government approval; and Network Rail has conducted extensive research into the environmental impact of the project. We are happy to make this clear.

■ November 17, 2019

In the article “Inside the weird world of the Barclay brothers” (Business, November 3), we said the brothers founded The Sark Newsletter and that they had accused Sark’s doctor of negligence. The Sark Newsletter is owned and edited by Kevin Delaney, and it was the Newsletter that made the negligence allegations. We are happy to set the record straight.

■ November 12, 2019

Our story "Russian Tory donors named in secret report" (November 10) originally included a photograph of Evgeny Lebedev. The Sunday Times has no knowledge that Mr Lebedev is a donor to the Conservative party or named in the report. We are happy to make this clear.

■ November 10, 2019

Our article on Jessica Douglas-Home (News Review, last week) carried the headline “The spy who buckled the Iron Curtain”. Douglas-Home was not a spy: she worked in education in eastern Europe. We apologise unreservedly for the error.

Contrary to our report (News, last week), the Chong Hua professorship sits within Cambridge University’s department of politics and international studies, not Jesus College. We apologise for the error.

■ October 20, 2019

An article on the crowdfunding platform Seedrs (Business, August 11) stated that its shares had been suspended from its secondary trading platform during the course of a fundraising.

The fundraising in question was part of its planned growth strategy and its decision to suspend its shares from trading on its own secondary platform was standard procedure for any company on that platform when a fundraising deal was nearing completion.

We understand that since the article was published, Seedrs has raised £4.5m of additional capital. We are happy to clarify the position.

■ October 13, 2019

Our Top Track 250 supplement (last week) stated that Together had shown a 24% fall in sales. In fact its sales rose by 13%. We apologise for the error.

The article “Hold your horses: Appleby divided over ‘lawless’ gypsy livestock fair” (News, May 26) reported incorrectly that there had been 117 arrests at last year’s fair. The correct number was 17. We apologise for the error.

■ October 1, 2019

Our article “Injury fears over rugby’s trans women drive referees off pitch” (News, September 29, 2019) included a picture of Verity Smith. The use of the photograph in this context was inappropriate and misleading in terms of both his gender and his views. Verity Smith is not a trans woman, does not share the view that trans women in sport pose a safety risk, and advocates for trans inclusion in sport. We apologise for the error.

■ September 22, 2019

Our report “Rugby star Gareth Thomas reveals he has HIV” (News, last week) incorrectly stated that the Sunday Mirror had “exposed” Mr Thomas and forced him into revealing that he is HIV positive. In fact, he had approached the Sunday Mirror and was pleased with the way it presented his story. We apologise to the Sunday Mirror and Mr Thomas for the error.

In our article “Enfield Labour council ‘taken over’ by clan” (News, July 15, 2018) we stated that Enfield council leader Nesil Caliskan had appointed her own mother, Councillor Cazimoglu, as cabinet member for health and social care. We are happy to clarify that Ms Cazimoglu’s appointment to cabinet was by way of secret ballot among Labour councillors, and was not made directly by her daughter, and Ms Caliskan’s role in the process was limited to choosing for her mother the portfolio she had already held in a previous administration. We apologise for any distress caused.

■ September 15, 2019

The Influencer List (Magazine, last week) incorrectly stated that Nigella Lawson monetises her online following. In fact she makes recommendations to her followers based on her personal passion and tastes and not for remuneration.

■ August 24, 2019

The headline to our article “Lord Lester cleared of peerage-for-sex claims” (News, last week) incorrectly suggested, when read alone, that Ms Jasvinder Sanghera’s complaint to the House of Lords about Lord Lester’s conduct may have been dismissed. The article reported on the outcome of an investigation into Lord Lester by the Bar Standards Board. The findings of an earlier House of Lords committee are unaffected by this ruling. We apologise for any distress caused.

“World’s hunters set sights on rare deer in deepest East Anglia” (News, last week) mistakenly referred to the 11th Duke of Woburn. The correct title is the 11th Duke of Bedford. We apologise for the error.

In our Relative Values feature (Magazine, March 3), we said that the royal and celebrity hairdresser Richard Ward had “got into trouble” by revealing how he had styled Kate Middleton’s hair for her wedding and mistakenly suggested he had breached royal confidences. We now appreciate that he did not breach confidentiality and we apologise to Mr Ward for this error.

■ August 18, 2019

The article “PM’s ‘bomb plot’ accuser returns to party ranks” (News, April 7) stated that the Labour councillor Pam Bromley accused Theresa May of plotting the Manchester Arena bombing. Ms Bromley did not allege that May plotted the bombing; only that it provided her with a “convenient” excuse to deploy troops. We apologise for the error.

■ August 11, 2019

Our opera review (Culture, last week) stated that the Australian director Barrie Kosky worked with a British company for the first time in 2015 at Glyndebourne. In fact it was in 2011 at the English National Opera. We apologise for the error.

■ August 4, 2019

The review of Who Do You Think You Are? (Culture, July 28) suggested incorrectly that a “distant cousin” of Daniel Radcliffe had pretended not to know they were related. We apologise to Louis Gershon for this error.

■ July 28, 2019

A photograph in our article “Harry Potter moved to tears by ancestor’s suicide note” (News, last week) was wrongly captioned. It showed Daniel Radcliffe’s ancestor Louis Gershon, not Samuel Gershon. We apologise for the error.

Further to our report on sexual assaults against students (News, last week), Newcastle University points out that it has been rated by students as being among the safest universities in the country. Newcastle says it takes every allegation of sexual assault very seriously and appropriate action is taken, which can include exclusion or suspension. We are happy to make this clear.

■ July 14, 2019

The article “Betcha we don’t leave” (News Review, July 7) referred to Peter Kellner’s appearance on the BBC’s EU referendum special on June 24, 2016. In fact, Kellner did not appear on the programme. We apologise for the error.

■ June 23, 2019

In the article “Fresh blow for vulture after collapse of HMV” (Business, January 13), we said that Hilco, a venture fund that invests in distressed businesses, had hit more turmoil after the failure of a cookware business it backed, Steamer Trading. In fact, Hilco had no hand in the day-to-day running of the business and its loan had already been repaid. We are happy to set the record straight.

■ June 16, 2019

In the article “Vulture fund took £48m from ailing HMV” (Business, December 30, 2018) we said that Hilco Capital had “taken” £48m from the music and film retailer HMV. We would like to clarify that, as stated in the article, this figure related to charges that were incurred by HMV, some of which were not actually paid to Hilco.

■ May 26, 2019

In response to our article “Islamophobic activists trade in Tories for Farage” (News, May 12), Luke Nash-Jones has informed us that he is not “alt-right”, nor is he an “Islamophobe”. He advocates tolerance for the non-violent practice of any religion. He states that he has never been suspended by the Conservative Party and has a long history of opposing those who hold abhorrent views akin to those of Oswald Mosley. Further, in April last year he met the Ukip leader to express his concerns about Generation Identity and Carl Benjamin, and passed his research on to Ukip’s NEC. He says magazines were not ripped up during the bookshop incident and he has apologised in person to the shopkeeper.

■ May 19, 2019

In the Rich List 2019, a picture of Gopi and Prakash Hinduja was wrongly captioned as showing Sri and Gopi Hinduja; and we mistakenly stated that Lord Lloyd-Webber sold the Theatre Royal Haymarket to Sir Leonard Blavatnik, when in fact Lord Lloyd-Webber was not the theatre’s owner. We apologise for the errors.

■ May 12, 2019

The picture on page 69 of the printed edition of the Rich List 2019 is not the 7th Duke of Sutherland and his wife, Victoria, but his predecessor, the 6th Duke, and his second wife, Evelyn Moubray. We apologise for the error.

■ April 26, 2019

Due to a production error, an early online version of our story on the BBC presenter George Riley (News, April 21) carried a headline that incorrectly named him Giles Riley. We apologise for the error.

■ April 7, 2019

Our article “I’ll teach women to bag a pay rise, says [named peer]” (Money, October 21, 2018) reported incorrectly that official figures show that women are paid 86p for each £1 men receive for the same job. The current gender pay gap of 8.6%, which is calculated by the ONS, refers to the difference between gross median hourly earnings (excluding overtime) of men and women in full-time work across the whole economy: it does not show the difference between what men and women get paid for identical jobs. According to these findings, women are currently paid on average 91.4p for each £1 a man receives.

In “Yorkshire’s Tour de France knight is on his bike after expenses scandal” (News, March 24) we incorrectly suggested that Sir Thomas Ingilby had lied to The Sunday Times when he answered the newspaper’s question about an investigation by the company’s auditor, KPMG, into Sir Gary Verity’s expenses. We accept that in reply Sir Thomas stated only that KPMG has not been instructed to investigate Sir Gary’s expenses. We apologise to Sir Thomas for the error.

■ March 31, 2019

We reported incorrectly ("When things fall apart", News, last week) that Sir Henry Bellingham MP had suggested at a meeting of the European Research Group (ERG) that members sign a letter asking the prime minister to resign. Sir Henry has pointed out that he is no longer a member of the ERG and was not at the meeting. We apologise for the errors.

In the print and online editions of The Sunday Times on March 24, 2019, we published a leading article headlined "No duck houses but MPs are still in the doghouse", which wrongly stated that Andrew Selous, the Conservative MP for South West Bedfordshire, claimed £30 for quills for letterhead artwork. The correct position is that Mr Selous claimed £30 for parliamentary stationery. We apologise for the inaccuracy and for the distress caused.

■ March 18, 2019

Due to a production error, the online edition of our story "Britons lose out to rush of foreign medical students" (March 10) originally included a graph including incorrect information on the number of international students at British medical schools. The graph has been removed. We apologise for the error. 

■ March 17, 2019

An article on opioid drugs (News, last week) quoted Dr Cathy Stannard as saying, "They don't work and they are harmful." As she made clear, Dr Stannard was speaking only of opioid drugs prescribed for the majority of cases of chronic pain: she believes opioids can play a safe and effective role in treating short-term pain and certain cases of chronic pain, and in cancer care at the end of life. At no time did Dr Stannard describe opioid medicines as "useless", as may have been inferred from our headline. We are happy to make this clear.

■ March 10, 2019

Due to a photo agency error, pictures accompanying our story "Establishment flocks to dine at new society with Kremlin ties" (News, last week) were wrongly captioned. Photographs of Crown Princess Katharine of Yugoslavia were captioned "Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia". We also published a picture of Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia. Neither the Crown Prince nor the Crown Princess attended the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society dinner discussed in the article. We apologise for the error.

■ February 24, 2019

Our story "Meghan takes aim at male, pale, stale universities" (News, last week) incorrectly referred to Cecil Rhodes as a slave owner. Slavery had been abolished in the British Empire before Rhodes was born. We apologise for the error.

In our column "Call me a Mad Man but I believe WPP could live happily ever after" (Money, last week) reference was made to WPP's low share price following a "messy #MeToo scandal". The former chief executive of WPP has told us that inclusion of #MeToo was incorrect, as his departure from WPP did not involve accusations of sexual harassment or abuse.

■ February 3, 2019

Our article "Corporate governance zealots risk shackling the risk-takers" (Business, last week) stated that the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) last year extended the reach of its governance code to private companies meeting two of three criteria: turnover exceeding £36m, a balance sheet total of more than £18m and more than 250 employees. In fact the FRC extended its reach to private companies with more than 2,000 employees and/or turnover in excess of £200m and a balance sheet of more than £2bn. We apologise for the error.

The Tax List (Magazine, last week) stated that Starbucks paid £4.6m in UK taxes last year. In fact the total figure was £13.7m. We apologise for the error.

■ January 27, 2019

Our article "The Last Witnesses" (Magazine, last week) reported inaccurately that the Polish government "has made it a crime to talk about Polish death camps as opposed to German death camps in Poland". The 2018 law made it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in Nazi crimes in Poland. This was later amended from a criminal to a civil offence.

■ January 20, 2019

Our extract from Lindsey Hilsum's biography of Marie Colvin ("Marie in love and war", News Review, October 14, 2018) included a description of an incident on a bus in Iraq that the publisher now accepts did not take place. We apologise for reproducing this error. 

■ January 13, 2019

The following correction is published after an upheld ruling by the Independent Press Standards Organisation. In an article ("Labour welcomes back banned activists and Holocaust denier", News, February 4, 2018) we misinterpreted Mike Sivier as having said he was not pretending the omission of Jews from a list of Holocaust survivors was a big problem, when what he had said was not a big problem was anti-semitism in the Labour Party. What he had said about Jews being omitted from the list was that this may have been "political correctness". We also reported him as having said, in a discussion about a leaflet which described the Holocaust as having thousands not millions of victims and which did not mention Jews at all, that he was not going to comment on whether thousands or millions of Jews had died in the Holocaust as he didn't know, when in fact what he had said was "I'm not going to comment on 'thousands' instead of 'millions' because I don't know." We are happy to make clear Mr Sivier's position that what he meant was that he did not know why the leaflet had used those numbers, not that he didn't know how many Jews had died in the Holocaust. These claims formed the basis for the headline's suggestion that Mr Sivier was a "Holocaust denier" and we are happy to put on record his position that this is not the case. 

■ January 6, 2019

Our report "Ladies' loos at City landmarks may open to trans women" (News, July 29) was misleading because it did not accurately explain the current rights of transgender women under the Equality Act. Service providers can allow transgender people to use single-sex spaces such as toilets but can exclude them if this can be justified as a proportionate way to achieve a legitimate aim.