§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the countries with whose Governments she has discussed the use of child labour during the last 12 months. [139454]
§ Clare ShortThe focus of our recent work on child labour has been to encourage the International Labour Organisation to extend the number of countries in which730W it operates and to sharpen its targeting on children in the worst forms of child labour through a series of "Time-Bound Programmes". Our support has allowed the International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour to extend into a regional programme in the Arab States and in Eastern Europe over the last year. These are in addition to our ongoing IPEC support in India and South East Asia and our direct collaborative support to governments, civil society organisations and international bodies such as UNICEF.