§ 6. Mr. Brooksasked the Minister of Overseas Development whether he will propose to the Federal German Government that this country and the Federal Republic should collaborate in the provision of overseas aid.
§ Mr. PrenticeWe already work closely with the Federal German Government, and with other donors, on many aid questions in the various international bodies of which we are both members.
§ Mr. BrooksBut would not my right hon. Friend agree that, apart from the obvious advantages of continuing and expanding this type of collaboration, there are, in principle, advantages in this sort of multilateral or partly multilateral and partly bilateral arrangement for channelling aid on the pattern of the European Development Fund?
§ Mr. PrenticeYes, I agree that there are great advantages in co-ordination between aid donors, but, more generally, this should take place not just between two individual donors but between larger groups, like the Development Assistance Committee of the O.E.C.D., the World Bank, the U.N. Agencies or the various other ways open to us.