§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on her Department's policy of linking aid to good governance and human rights in(a) Zimbabwe, (b) Burma, (c) Vietnam and (d) Cuba. [73731]
§ Clare ShortThe Government's White Paper on International Development makes it clear that raising standards of governance is central to the elimination of poverty. All our development assistance programmes take good governance and human rights issues into account. We do not have bilateral aid programmes in Burma or Cuba. We have published a detailed Country Strategy paper for our programme in Vietnam and will shortly be publishing one for Zimbabwe which set out our approaches in those countries.