Helen Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment her Department has made of thehumanitarian situation in (a) Najaf, (b) Karbala and (c) Nasariyah; and if she will make a statement. [109705]Clare Short: The International Committee for the Red Cross, UN agencies and NGOs, are now undertaking regular humanitarianassessments in Iraq. The results of these are summarised in our Iraq updates available from DFID's website atwww.dfid.gov.uk.Humanitarian assessments by almost all agencies operating in Iraq are being logged by the UN Humanitarian Information Centre (HIC)and are available from www.agoodplacetostart.org