HC Deb 08 June 1999 vol 332 c285W
Ms Jenny Jones

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy to support Oxfam's proposal of a human development window when reviewing the working of the HIPC initiative at the G8 summit. [85539]

Ms Hewitt

The Government's policy on debt relief was set out in a recent memorandum to the Select Committee for International Development. In that memorandum the Government emphasised the need to strengthen the link between debt relief and poverty reduction.