GOVERNMENT OF LIBYA FUNDING FOR THE NORTH AFRICAN RESEARCH PROGRAMME AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

That this House condemns the 1.5 million accepted by the London School of Economics (LSE) from the government of Libya in 2009 to fund a North African Research Programme; believes that although the money came from the International Charity and Development Foundation chaired by Colonel Gadaffi's son, Seif Al-Islam, this does not make it any cleaner; calls on the LSE to donate the money to suitable charities to assist victims of the Gadaffi regime; notes that universities from across the UK have accepted hundreds of millions of pounds from Middle Eastern dictatorships in recent years; and therefore calls on the Government to strengthen its scrutiny of our higher education institutions, and in particular the London School of Economics.