HC Deb 15 May 2002 vol 385 c694W
28. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what support she plans to give to Sierra Leone. [54765]

Clare Short

We intend maintaining a development programme of around £40 million annually over the next few years. Our primary aims are to help the Government restore and maintain security throughout the country, improve standards of governance, help ensure better management of the country's diamond resources, and combat the endemic corruption that has put a brake on the country's developmental progress.

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