HC Deb 25 February 1998 vol 307 c258W
28. Mr. Wigley

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on the progress of programmes for clearance of land mines; and if she will make a statement. [29639]

Clare Short

I signed the Ottawa Convention on behalf of the UK. We are doubling our expenditure on demining and we are working for greater international co-operation and more local capability in order to speed up demining worldwide.