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Tourism: English Language

Volume 717: debated on Tuesday 2 February 2010

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Asked by

Baroness Warsi

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much they are spending promoting the English language abroad. [HL1578]

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead)

In 2008-09 the British Council spent £133 million globally on developing a wider knowledge of the English Language, of which £117 million was English language services delivered on a full cost recovery basis and £16 million coming from government grants.