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From: Miss RJ Spencer
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20 November 1990
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FCOSAS 1991/92
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Ministers have agreed the Board of Management's recommendation
that £2m should be cut from the FCO's scholarship budget for 1991/92
and beyond. Over two thirds of the scholarships budget is either
the ODA's money, or linked to it, or subject to binding agreements
with other Goverments, or governed by legislation. So the £2m must
be found from the remaining resources of some £6.95m.
2. A 30 per cent cut across the board in all allocations recently agreed by Departments for 1991/92 would produce £2m. But this indiscriminate approach is not feasible: it takes no account of jointly-funded (JFS) or flagship (F) award commitments, nor of inescapable carry-over costs from 1990/91 to 1991/92. So cuts of more than 30 per cent have to be made in some larger allocations. We have made deeper cuts in allocations for countries for which there are other award schemes bringing students to the UK (ERASMUS
for the EC, Marshalls for the US, CSFP for Australia, Canada and New
Zealand). Account has also been taken of reductions already
volunteered in the current TMR. But there is insufficent scope for
selective cuts on a scale that would render more general cuts
unnecessary. We cannot for example exempt the Third World (or the
Commonwealth) as a whole. Because of the very high priority
accorded to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, no cuts have been
imposed in that area.
3. I attach details of the new allocations for the regions in your
command. If you wish to make virements within your regions, please
consult CRD before 27 November about feasibility (carry-over costs
etc). CRD will advise posts of their new allocations on 28
November.
Rosemary Spencer
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