Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of the effect on thepopulation of the floods in Sudan in 1998, and the effectiveness of the response of the Government of Sudan and the internationalcommunity to the floods. [71685]Clare Short: Many thousands of people were adversely affected by the floods in Sudan last year. We contributed £250,000 towards theflood relief efforts of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies which were timely and well targeted. Wehave made no assessment of the response by the Government of Sudan or the rest of the international community.