HC Deb 16 December 1998 vol 322 c590W
17. Mr. St. Aubyn

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on the role of NGOs in the delivery of aid. [62759]

Clare Short

NGOs have a very important role to play, along with other elements of civil society, in helping deliver programmes and in raising awareness of the needs and rights of poor people in both developing countries and Britain.