Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer from Baroness Chapman of Darlington on 18 June (HL1080), what steps they are taking following the National Audit Office’s report Investigation into the financial sustainability of the British Council, published on 13 June.

I refer the Noble Lord to the letter sent to the Foreign Affairs Committee by the Minister for Multilateral and Human Rights on Tuesday 30 June concerning the financial position of the British Council.