Malawi

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — International Development – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 9 November 2005.

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Photo of Andy Reed Andy Reed Labour, Loughborough 11:30, 9 November 2005

My right hon. Friend is right to concentrate on the long-term solution to the situation in Malawi, but is he aware that the World Food Programme estimates that it is $165 million short this year, while there is a food surplus in South Africa, just a few hundred miles away? Will he apply pressure internationally to ensure that enough money is put into the WFP, so that that short-term solution to the situation faced by 2 million Malawians is brought to fruition sooner, rather than later?