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Chevening Scholarships Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which universities have enrolled the highest number of Chevening Scholarship and Fellowship recipients.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 10 Feb 2026
Target answer date: 12 Feb 2026
Answer: 23 Feb 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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10 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, which universities have enrolled the highest number of Chevening Scholarship and Fellowship recipients.
12 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 2026
Answer published
For more than forty years since its establishment under Margaret Thatcher's government, the Chevening Programme has been creating long-lasting relationships with future generations of leaders, decision makers and businesspeople from across the globe. Info...

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