Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what funding allocation the British Council received in the 2021 Spending Review.
The FCDO agreed to provide the British Council with £511 million total grant funding across the 2022-25 spending review period. This will comprise £396 million Official Development Assistance (ODA) and £115 million non-ODA, and includes restructuring funds. The non-ODA portion includes an increase on the provisional allocation, contingent on there being no further closures of British Council offices across the three-year period, and further funding to retain the British Council's offices in Australia and New Zealand.