Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much Official Development Assistance funding was spent by the British Council in China by (a) project and (b) region in (i) 2022-23 and (ii) 2023-24.

Over the spending review period 2022-2025, the FCDO will provide the British Council with £511 million Grant-in-Aid funding. Of this, £396 million will be provided as Official Development Assistance (ODA) and £115 million as non-ODA. As the British Council is operationally independent of government, questions on their programming and spend across regions in China are for them to answer.