§ Sir Russell JohnstonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contribution the United Kingdom has made to the special account for emergency aid for Albania, opened by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthI have been asked to reply.
In conjunction with the local authority associations, the Government launched an appeal on 4 February to help Albanian schoolchildren. Aimed at schools and other educational institutions, the appeal seeks their help in providing a number of essential items such as paper, exercise books, books, pens, pencils and educational toys. Feed the Children, a charity operating in Albania, is administering the day-to-day running of the appeal with financial assistance from the Government towards the administrative costs of collection, storage, transportation and distribution of the material raised.