§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has made to the World Health Organisation about the improvement of its performance in crisis situations in developing countries.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydWe welcome the World Health Organisation's increasing role in emergency situations and have supported its emergency work in a number of countries.
The United Kingdom, through its official representatives to WHO, maintains a continuing dialogue with the division of emergency and humanitarian action on how best the division should develop its activities in providing assistance in emergency situations. We have fully supported the recent setting up, by WHO, of a task force to 636W examine this role. It is still working on its recommendations which we will examine carefully when they are released.