Land Mine Clearance Programmes

HC Deb 16 January 2001 vol 361 c171W

Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the land mine clearance programmes in which his Department is involved. [145429]

Mr. Hain

None. Although the Foreign and Commonwealth Office remains responsible for policy on the implementation of the Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their destruction, responsibility for individual land mine clearance programmes rests with the Department for International Development.