Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding his Department has allocated to the British Council in each year since 2010.
The figures published in the FCO Annual Accounts for outturn Grant-in-Aid funding to the British Council are as follows:
Financial Year | £m |
2009/10 | 193.0 |
2010/11 | 187.0 |
2011/12 | 179.0 |
2012/13 | 165.0 |
2013/14 | 157.0 |
2014/15 | 154.0 |
2015/16 | 156.0 |
2016/17 | 162.0 |
The current allocation for 2017/18 is £161.5m but the final outturn figure will be published in the 2017/18 FCO Annual Report and accounts.