Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what representations she has made on identifying thefinancing gap for basic education within national Education for All plans. [31669]Clare Short: DFID's "Children out of school paper" makes clear what action we believe should be taken on this. The main approach fordelivering on the Dakar resource commitment should be through nationally owned poverty reduction strategy papers and similarplanning frameworks. They should indicate how country plans to move towards the education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) willbe met, including through the release of HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Country) savings and with the assistance of the internationalcommunity. So far as possible, this should be through sector-wide approaches and budget support.This approach should be underpinned by detailed analysis of the funding implications for achieving UPE and gender equality inschooling at a country level. The World bank is supporting work of this nature, including the tracking of expenditures from debtrelief and identification of the scope for additional national resources within countries. Where necessary, assistance should begiven to help countries undertake resource analysis of this type. The bank's findings will be submitted to Governors at their springmeeting in April. We are consulting with the bank about this work.