Part of Oral Answers to Questions — International Development – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 13 October 2010.
Alan Duncan
The Minister of State, Department for International Development
11:30,
13 October 2010
We work closely with the Foreign Office, and Ministers in both Departments are speaking to the Sri Lankans about that matter. Some 270,000 displaced people were released or returned to their homes. There are now only about 30,000 remaining in camps. There is access to most of these, except where the camps contain about 7,500 former combatants.