10. To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much grant-in-aid the British Council received in each of the last three years. (175900)

The British Council received grant-in-aid totalling £189,210,000 in financial year 2005-06, £188,124,000 in financial year 2006-07, and £192,803,000 in financial year 2007-08. These figures are final as reported in the British Council’s annual reports, copies of which are available from the Library of the House.