Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much money her Department has given the Atlantic Council in each of the last three years; and what the purpose of that funding was.

The Atlantic Council is a Washington-based US think tank that works to enhance NATO public diplomacy in the US. The British Embassy in Washington supported four projects with the Atlantic Council over the past three years. These informed the trans-Atlantic debate on Global Value Chains and promoted understanding of the UK's Integrated Review, Global Britain, climate action and COP26. The cost in Financial Year 2019/20 was £24,542.87. and in 20/21 £64,010.58.