§ Norman LambTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will place in the Library a copy of the recent report on UK mine action funding policy. [171053]
§ Hilary BennIn reviewing its current policy on humanitarian mine action DFID commissioned an internal report to assist in the decision making process. The report is exempt from release under Part II, section 2 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information on the basis that to do so would harm the frankness candour of internal discussion.
The resulting changes in policy from the review have been announced to the House in a Statement dated 10 May. I have also written to the Chair of the Commons All Party Landmine Eradication Group and the Heads of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the United Nations Development 597W Programme (UNDP) Mine Action Team and the main UK based Non-Governmental Organisations working in the Humanitarian Landmine Sector.