The phrase "admitted in response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when acknowledging or confessing something as a reply to a question or situation.
Example: "During the meeting, she admitted in response to the inquiry about her performance that she had struggled with the project."
Alternatives: "acknowledged in reply" or "confessed in answer".
It has some distinct advantages for the academic, as Oliver James admitted in response to an impertinent audience member who challenged him at the Hay Festival.
Energy and climate change minister Andrea Leadsom admitted in response to a parliamentary question from Labour last week that £31m of taxpayer's money had been spent on White Rose and £28m at Peterhead.
Yes, Mr. Cameron admitted in response to a reporter's question during an extraordinary news conference at 10 Downing Street, under the circumstances he did indeed regret having once declared his favorite joke to be "Nick Clegg".
Government lawyers have admitted in responses to Privacy International that between 1 June 2014 and 9 February this year, "47 instances of non-compliance either with the MI5 closed section 94 handling arrangements or internal guidance or the communications data code of practice were detected".
In addition, 318 people earning more than £50,000 were also shown as having not paid tax at source in that year, the BBC has admitted in its response to a freedom of information request by David Mowat, the Conservative MP for Warrington South.
Treasury minister Lord Sassoon admitted this week, in response to a question by former City minister Lord Myners, that while the banks would pay around £20bn in tax in 2010-11 mofthat totaltotal would be income tax and national insurance paid by employees which the banks hand over on their behalf.
The cost of visitor visas excludes the poorest and the Home Office has admitted in a freedom of information response that some visas have netted them a profit of 440%.
Despite that positive response, Snap admitted in its IPO filing that "The launch of Spectacles... has not generated significant revenue for us," and notes "We expect to experience production and operating costs related to Spectacles that will exceed the related revenue in the near future".
Each window has a thin layer of microscopic particles sandwiched between plastic panes to block or admit light in response to an electric charge.
But the eighteen senators — ten Democrats and eight Republicans — plowed ahead, debating the number of displaced Tibetans to admit, strengthening (in response to the Boston Marathon bombing) the monitoring of students who overstay their visas, explaining the meaning of racial profiling to Charles Grassley, of Iowa.
Women were admitted in 1969.
