Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Overseas Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 December 1986.
Mr Chris Patten
, Bath
12:00,
1 December 1986
The changes that we were successful in pushing through at the Development Council meeting last month will not reduce the amount of money that is spent on food aid through the EC. We still have to deal with one or two institutional problems, but the changes should ensure that that money is sensibly spent in a developmentally sound way.