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BUSINESS QUESTION – VIETNAM AND LINACRE COLLEGE, OXFORD - 22 September 2022

BUSINESS QUESTION – VIETNAM AND LINACRE COLLEGE, OXFORD - 22 September 2022

Dr Julian Lewis: I warmly congratulate my right hon. Friend on becoming not only Leader of the House, but Lord President of the Council. In that latter capacity, will she urge the Privy Council not to agree to the proposed change in name of Linacre College, Oxford to that of a Vietnamese billionaire who is proposing to give £155 million to the college? If we want to clean up the dirty money and dodgy donations in this country, that would be a good place to start.

[The Leader of the House of Commons (Penny Mordaunt): I thank my right hon. Friend for raising this matter. I will ensure that the Department for Education has heard what he says. I suspect that that is the more appropriate and swiftest way of resolving the issues of concern to him.]