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LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES – COUNCIL FOR AT-RISK ACADEMICS - 14 March 2022

LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES – COUNCIL FOR AT-RISK ACADEMICS - 14 March 2022

Dr Julian Lewis: May I ask for an official point of contact for a very valuable resource, the Council for At-Risk Academics, which has not only been rescuing scholars from dictatorial regimes since 1933 but co-ordinates sponsorship from a network of universities? The main danger is a disconnect between the work it can do and the new sponsorship organisation and admission organisation. May we have an official point of contact for CARA?

[The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations (Michael Gove): I was able to talk to a leading academic at the University of Manchester earlier today who is working in a very similar field. I will make sure that my right hon. Friend is put in touch with an appropriate official contact in my Department, and either I or Lord Harrington will be back in touch with my right hon. Friend in the next 24 hours.]