Question follow-through · 25749
Confucius Institutes: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has given any funding to Confucius institutes since July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 31 Jan 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has given any funding to Confucius institutes since July 2024.
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jan 2025
Answer published
The department has not provided any funding to Confucius Institutes under this government.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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