HC Deb 24 July 2000 vol 354 c446W
Mr. Streeter

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what are the policy aims underlying her Department's contribution to(a) the Asian Development Bank, (b) the African Development Bank, (c) the International Monetary Fund, (d) the International Finance Corporation, (e) the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, (f) the International Development Association, (g) Trade and Investment Research Activities, (h) UNAIDS, (i)the UN Fund for Population Acts, (j)the African Development Fund, (k) the WHO, (l) the UN Centre for Human Settlements, (m) the European Commission Attribution, (n) EU research, (o) the Desertification Convention, (p) the International Trade and Timber Organisation and (q) the World Food Programme; what assessment she has made of the value for money of these contributions; and if she will make a statement. [131620]

Clare Short

The policy aims underlying our contribution to(a), (b), (d), (e), (f), (j), (l), (m) and (n) are set out in the relevant Institutional Strategy Papers, which have been deposited in the Library of the House. Strategy Papers for (h), (k), (1) and (q) will be published shortly and will be deposited in the Library of the House, with the exception of the International Monetary Fund which is a Treasury lead.

Our policy aims on (g), (o) and (p), are outlined in chapters 3, 4 and 5 in DFID' s 2000 Departmental Report.

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