Tanzania

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Overseas Development – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 January 1997.

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Photo of Mr Win Griffiths Mr Win Griffiths , Bridgend 12:00, 27 January 1997

I thank the Minister for that response, and I am very pleased that the Government's emergency aid to Tanzania has been increasing. However, will he stop for a moment, ponder the wider picture and try to imagine what would happen if, for example, half a million people suddenly moved into the south-west of England, Wales or the highlands of Scotland and started to live off the land, on which they were dependent for all their requirements? A radical transformation in economic and financial policy is occurring in Tanzania. In such circumstances, why have the Government halved their general aid programme to that country in the past five years? Will they now admit that they should be doing more to help the Hutu refugees return to their own country?