Commonwealth Scholarships Programme

(asked on 29th January 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Rupert Lowe Portrait
Rupert Lowe
(Independent - Great Yarmouth)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the (a) cost to the public purse and (b) nationality of each recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship was in the last five years.

Answered by
Anneliese Dodds Portrait
Anneliese Dodds
This question was answered on 10th February 2025

The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC), provides post-graduate awards (Fellowships, Masters and PhDs) at UK universities to students from approximately 64 eligible Commonwealth countries and British Overseas Territories.

Commonwealth Programme Expenditure:

Financial year

CSC Grant-in-Aid (from HMG, including DfE)

(£m)

2020-21

25.313

2021-22

28.224

2022-23

28.224

2023-24

28.224

2024-25

28.224

Breakdown of recipients by nationality of the Commonwealth Scholarship for the last 5 years:

Country/Territory

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Antigua and Barbuda

2

1

Australia

2

1

Bangladesh

44

40

47

29

27

Belize

1

1

2

2

Botswana

1

2

1

Cameroon

17

18

22

17

20

Canada

2

2

Dominica

1

Fiji

1

1

3

2

Ghana

56

70

50

55

54

Grenada

2

Guyana

5

3

1

India

72

91

81

76

89

Jamaica

4

2

5

4

Kenya

79

55

74

61

78

Kingdom of Eswatini

2

6

1

1

4

Kiribati

1

Lesotho

2

1

3

3

2

Malawi

17

31

20

25

31

Malaysia

2

2

2

Maldives

1

1

1

2

Mauritius

2

1

2

2

Montserrat

1

Mozambique

5

3

5

2

6

Namibia

2

8

2

2

New Zealand

1

1

Nigeria

161

174

149

126

89

Pakistan

46

54

44

61

65

Papua New Guinea

2

1

1

Rwanda

16

9

5

14

11

Saint Lucia

1

2

1

1

Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

1

2

1

Samoa

1

Sierra Leone

14

6

13

13

15

Singapore

1

Solomon Islands

3

South Africa

6

12

10

8

9

Sri Lanka

2

15

7

13

7

Tanzania

23

14

20

33

23

The Gambia

7

5

10

8

5

Togo

1

Tonga

1

Tuvalu

1

Uganda

64

53

72

63

59

Vanuatu

2

Zambia

26

27

23

22

15

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