HC Deb 24 October 1994 vol 248 c478W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department's definition is of burden sharing with regard to the admission and residence of refugees from third countries.

Mr. Nicholas Baker

Burden sharing is not a precise term. In this context it is taken to mean a proportion sharing out of persons displaced by events, such as the conflict in the former Yugoslavia; it is also used more generally to describe the overall response of the international community to such events.