§ Mr. SpringTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further assistance the United Kingdom will be providing to Mozambique.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydAt the Maputo Donors conference this week we pledged £7 million of humanitarian assistance of which some £4 million will be for food aid. With the £3 million we pledged following the signature of the peace accords this will bring the United Kingdom's contribution to £10 million. The non-food aid assistance will be channelled mainly through British non-governmental organisations in the form of seeds and tools provision and for demining work in Zambezia Province. Our delegation at the conference stressed the vital importance of effective donor co-ordination and the key role to be played in this by the UN's Department of Humanitarian Affairs.