HC Deb 22 February 1971 vol 812 cc19-20W
96. Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs if he will now initiate a feasibility study into the practicability of a world disaster stockpile for the emergency relief of victims of famine, earthquakes, cyclones and other disasters on the lines of the proposal made at the recent Annual Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in The Hague.

Mr. Godber

I would prefer to await the report on international co-ordination of disaster relief which the United Nations Secretary General will present to the Economic and Social Council in July and to which we are contributing.

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