§ Mr. RosindellTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development how she expects her Department's development policy to be affected by the war against terrorism. [21872]
§ Clare ShortTackling the poverty and ignorance which feed extremism and violence is vital to ending global terrorism. It has never been more evident that ending world poverty is in all of our self-interests. The 1997 and 2000 White Papers on international development set our policies for eliminating poverty and making globalisation work for the world's poor. The need to tackle terrorism provides additional impetus to my Department's efforts to implement these policies.