Confucius Institutes: Finance

(asked on 24th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to remove all government funding from Confucius Institutes in the UK; and what estimate they have made of the number of such institutes that will be receiving government funding by the beginning of September 2023.


Answered by
Baroness Barran Portrait
Baroness Barran
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 7th June 2023

The department is taking action to review funding arrangements, but does not currently directly or indirectly fund Confucius Institutes, nor is the department planning to enter financial arrangements in the future with any Confucius Institute.

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