British Council Offices

HC Deb 15 November 2001 vol 374 c839W

Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the new offices of the British Council opened in each of the last three years. [14736]

Mr. MacShane

The British Council has opened the following offices in the last three years.

• April 1998 to March 1999:
  • Curitiba (Brazil)
  • Mandalay (Burma)
  • Havana (Cuba)
  • Auckland (New Zealand)
  • Gilgit (Pakistan)
  • Sochi (Russia)
  • Yaroslavl (Russia)
  • Sharjah (UAE)
• April 1999 to March 2000:
  • Ramallah (East Jerusalem)
  • Brasov (Romania)
  • Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russia)
  • Pristina (Yugoslavia)
• April 2000 to March 2001:
  • Chongging (China)
  • Chandigarh (India)
  • Tehran (Iran)
  • Tripoli (Libya)
  • Multan (Russia)
  • Irkutsk (Russia)
  • Samara (Russia).