Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether the cost (a) of humanitarian aid distributed from(i) HMS Sir Galahad and (ii) other sources associated with the UK and (b) assumed to have been incurred by the use of UK troops indistributing the aid will be charged to the UN Oil for Food Programme; and if she will make a statement. [107748]Clare Short: Humanitarian supplies being provided and distributed by UK forces will not be paid for by the Oil for Food Programme(OFF). The Ministry of Defence has been allocated £30 million by HM Treasury to help it carry out its humanitarian obligations underthe Geneva Convention and the Hague Regulations.The UK does not otherwise provide significant bilateral humanitarian assistance; our assistance is channelled mainly through UN andinternational aid agencies.