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Corrections

Mistakes happen. Sources change. New information surfaces. Corrections are a normal part of running a data tracker — what matters is catching them quickly and fixing them in the open.

Spotted something wrong?

Email contact@gracchus.ai with:

  • Where the error is — a page, a section or a direct link works best
  • What the current text or figure says
  • What it should say instead
  • Any source for the corrected version (optional, but it speeds things up)

Every correction request gets a reply within three working days. Most are reviewed and resolved within two weeks. Some take longer when the underlying data needs re-sourcing from primary records.

What happens next

Three possible outcomes:

The claim is wrong. The page gets updated. A dated correction note appears on the page so readers can see what changed and when. Significant corrections also show up in the Recent Additions feed tagged as a correction.

The claim is right but could be clearer. The wording gets tightened. No correction note if the meaning has not changed — just a better edit.

The claim stands. An explanation goes back to whoever raised it, with the sources behind the claim. If they still disagree, their statement can be added alongside the original — both sides visible.

Things that are not corrections

Disagreement with the overall editorial line — that is a complaint, not a correction. Use contact@gracchus.ai.

Threats of legal action without a specific factual correction. Those get passed to Gracchus’s legal contact.

Attempts to remove true, sourced information from the public record. Those do not succeed. The site is built on public-interest transparency.

Right of reply

Separate from corrections. If a named individual wants to add context, deny a characterisation or respond to a finding, that is a right-of-reply request rather than a correction. Same email, “Right of reply” plus the name or topic in the subject line.

Where past corrections live

Significant corrections are noted inline on the affected page and mirrored in the Recent Additions feed with a correction tag. Nothing gets silently edited.

Recent material corrections

The most substantive recent fixes — not every typo, just the ones that changed dates, parties, regulatory findings, or source citations against primary records.

30 April 2026 · data audit
Fifteen individual-connection records corrected against primary filings

Triggered by a reader catching a Laurence Lee tile that misstated his MOD tenure dates, the Palantir entity name, and his appointment start date. A full sweep of the curated 33-record dataset followed. Specific corrections, with the primary source each was checked against:

  • Laurence Lee — MOD dates 2018-01–2023-01 corrected to 2021-03–2023-05; entity changed from “Palantir Technologies UK” to “Palantir Technologies Limited”; appointment start changed from 2023-06 to 2025-08; FCDO interim role added; an unsourced £25m contract figure removed. (ACOBA letter)
  • Baroness Harding — finding re-described as a public-sector equality duty breach (s.149 Equality Act) per [2022] EWHC 298 (Admin), not “indirect discrimination”; Good Law Project claim noted as dismissed on standing.
  • David Meller — detail rewritten against [2022] EWHC 46 (TCC) to reflect that the High Court refused relief and that Meller Designs was not a party to the proceedings.
  • Baroness Mone / PPE Medpro — judgment date corrected from 2024-11-06 to 2025-10-01; neutral citation [2025] EWHC 2486 (Comm) and Mrs Justice Cockerill added; civil judgment distinguished from the still-active NCA criminal investigation.
  • Lord Hammond — ACOBA letter date corrected to 2021-08-31; quoted text updated to verbatim ACOBA wording.
  • Sir John Whittingdale — ACOBA correspondence date corrected from a vague “2022-03” to the actual publication date of 2022-04-11.
  • Dame Priti Patel — Monckton Chambers case note demoted from primary to analysis; the actual Upper Tribunal ruling [2024] UKUT 76 (AAC) added as primary; record reframed to make clear the ruling is FOI disclosure, not a determination on Patel’s compliance.
  • George Osborne — ACOBA conditions corrected to include the three-month waiting period and the privileged-information condition; PACAC report HC 252 added as a second primary source.
  • Sir Nick Clegg — status changed from “closed_approved” to “public_record”; the 2018 Facebook role fell outside ACOBA’s two-year window so no ACOBA approval exists.
  • Cameron / Crothers — PACAC report HC 888 date corrected from 2022-03-17 to actual publication date 2022-12-02.
  • Sir Geoffrey Cox — summary corrected to distinguish £800k aggregate Withers earnings from the £150k+ specifically for BVI work.
  • Iain Liddell / Uniserve — Good Law Project demoted from primary to news; NAO retained as the government primary.
  • Money Map Lee guided-tour string — corrected “Lt Gen” (he is not a military officer) to “Laurence Lee CMG”; replaced an incorrect attribution of the Federated Data Platform contract to the MOD (it’s NHS England).
30 April 2026 · new records
Four new MP / minister declaration records added; ACOBA closure noted

ACOBA — the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments — closed on 13 October 2025. Its functions transferred to the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards (for ministers) and the Civil Service Commission (for senior civil servants). Editorial notes updated to flag this; pre-closure records continue to cite ACOBA, post-closure records cite the new bodies.

New records added:

  • Angela Rayner — the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards found a Ministerial Code breach over a c. £40k stamp duty underpayment; resigned 5 September 2025. Subsequent Chartwell Speakers role approved 15 January 2026 with two-year UK-government lobbying restrictions.
  • Lord Gove — March 2026 approval to take up paid speaker engagements with Chartwell Speakers Bureau and London Speaker Bureau under standard conditions.
  • Andrew Bridgen — Committee on Standards report HC 832 (1 May 2025) found he had registered a £4,470,576 interest-free loan from Conservative donor Jeremy Hosking 1,135 days late.
  • Sir Andrew Mitchell — 3 February 2026 advice approving appointment as Senior Adviser to Subaha Investments under standard post-ministerial conditions.
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