Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, as part of the merger of the Department for International Development with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to broaden the brief of the British Council to promote activities, including higher education, outside of the developing world.
The British Council has a global remit, covering both developed and developing world. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office currently provides the British Council with non-ODA funding as well as ODA through existing Grant in Aid, which supports British Council arts and cultural activity in over 40 developed countries, such as the recent UK in Japan Season of Culture.