Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of the proposals to increasehealth aid budgets contained in the World Health Organisation's report by the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, published on20 December; and what role her Department has played in the report's distribution in the United Kingdom and in British overseasterritories and embassies. [54166]Clare Short: We welcome the broad messages of the Commission for Macroeconomics (CMH) report. It has provided clear evidence thatinvesting in health is far more important for economic development and wider poverty reduction than was previously understood, andwe embrace the call for extra resources from both donors and developing countries.I hosted the worldwide launch of the CMH report at the Department for International Development headquarters in December. Later thismonth I shall be opening a conference (organised and part funded by my Department) to disseminate the messages of the report to theglobal audience and plan how to take these findings forward.