Last week we reported that the Telegraph had conflated the level of benefit fraud with the amount of administrative error in the system, thereby repeating an age-old error.

The paper had claimed: “Last year, David Cameron warned that £5.2 billion a year was lost to fraudulent benefit claims.”

As we’ve shown in the past, this actually refers to the sum lost to benefit fraud and error.

The Telegraph is not alone in making this mistake: it is one that has caught out Welfare Reform Minister Lord Freud, Chancellor George Osborne and the Mirror newspaper, among others.

However we are pleased to report that, after Full Fact contacted the journalist involved, the error has now been corrected online.

It is worth noting that the mistake did make its way into the print edition of the Telegraph too, and we’ll be checking to ensure that a print correction also follows.

It is, however, good news that the Telegraph is also showing the signs of a more open-minded stance on corrections that we have also observed elsewhere on Fleet Street since Lord Justice Leveson began his Inquiry into press standards. We hope that this willingness to engage with accuracy proves to be more than simply a flash in the pan.