§ 7. Miss McIntoshTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will make a statement on aid to Haiti. [157877]
Mr. Gareth ThomasA Small Grants Scheme finances development activities in basic sanitation, HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods. Haiti also benefits from projects financed by the DFID Civil Society Challenge Fund.
The UK's main support to Haiti is provided through the European Union. The UK finances approximately 13 per cent. of the European Development Fund budget (Haiti's allocation under the latest EOF is frozen pending political progress). The UK also provides support to Haiti through its membership of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank; the latter resumed lending to Haiti in 2003.
DFID will consider the imminent United Nations Flash Appeal when launched.