Know-How Fund over the period 1990/91 and might be so funded again in 1991/92. But the Know-How Fund is not really intended for scholarships of this kind for which the FCOSAS is much better suited and as take-up on the Know-How Fund increases, it will be necessary to move the scholarships out of the way. Furthermore the Treasury have ruled that Know-How Funds can not be used in the GDR after unification. So we ought to plan for these scholarships to be funded from the FCOSAS as soon as the money can be made available to that programme, ie. through our 1991/92 PES bid for FCOSAS if
successful.
3. Still more important in terms of our bid, the Prime Minister's commitment to the GDR sets a new benchmark for FCO scholarship activity in other East European countries and we may expect similar requirements for Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia etc. Total FCO scholarship resources in the GDR in 1990/91 are now likely to be £690,000. This dwarfs existing funding elsewhere in Eastern Europe:
Czechoslovakia £198,000, Poland £125,000, Hungary £157,000, Yugoslavia £70,000, Bulgaria £20,000 and Romania £10,000. Soviet Union presently has £163,000. We may be able to cover some of the costs with joint-funding; but the total requirement could use up all of our bid for new scholarships for 1991/92.
Hong Kong
4.
The
Ministers have just agreed that the Hong Kong Fee Support Scheme (worth £2m in 1990/91) should be increased by £200,000 in 1991/92 and that Mr Maude should announce this in Hong Kong during his present visit. If we could not meet this requirement from new money, we should have to find the resources from savings on other, declining, fee support schemes which would otherwise have been deployed on targetted awards in other high priority areas, such as joint funding in Eastern Europe.
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