HC Deb 15 April 1999 vol 329 c325W
18. Ms Drown

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to press for higher levels of debt cancellation at the forthcoming meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. [79462]

Ms Hewitt

The Chancellor intends to take the opportunity at the Spring Meetings of the IMF/World Bank later this month to take forward his recent initiative on poverty reduction in the developing world, calling for faster, deeper and wider debt relief.