HC Deb 19 June 1997 vol 296 c251W
Mr. Coaker

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate she has made of the number of(a) people and (b) children under five dying each day in the developing world from (i) inadequate sanitation, (ii) lack of clean water, (iii) starvation and (iv) war. [3806]

Clare Short

DFID makes no such global estimates. However, I have approached the United Nations, who collect some of this data on a country by country basis, and will write to my hon. Friend when I have their response.