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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Chevening Scholarships have been awarded in each country in central Asia; and what plans there are to increase the number [HL529]
The number of Chevening scholarships awarded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to countries in central Asia in 2008-09 and 2009-10 is as follows (the figures for 2009-10 are provisional as the British Council does not yet have nationality details for all partnership scheme scholars):
2008-09 2009-10 Kazakhstan 7 7 Kyrgyzstan 13 10 Tajikistan 9 10 Turkmenistan 2 5 Uzbekistan 9 9
There are no present plans to increase the number of awards offered to central Asian countries in 2010-11.