fire of £2.5 m for English Language Teaching in Hong Kong.If bon the options endorsed above were agreed, the additional cost in
1991/92 would be £3.9 million and a further £1.4 million would need
to be added to the British Council bid, bringing it up to
£14.40 million in 1991/92. This would be an ambitious bid for Hong
Kong, but not an unreasonable one in comparison with the Council's
bid of £4.2 million for Eastern Europe.
16. The PUS's submission recommended (paragraph 16) that even a bid
of £13 million p.a would be very ambitious and would almost
certainly be substantially scaled down during negotiations with the
Treasury. (There is, indeed, no guarantee that any additional funds
can be secured for the British Council.) It is unlikely that the
British Council would wish to devote all or most of the funds from
an only partially successful PES bid to Hong Kong. If Ministers wished the Hong Kong projects to take priority, it may be necessary,
in informing the British Council in the Autumn of the outcome of the
1990 PES round, to make clear that a specified sum is for the agreed
new programmes in Hong Kong.
Rosalind Morda
R Marsden
SAIAAC(7)
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