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Caroline Dinenage
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(13 years, 9 months ago)
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Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con)
1. What recent assessment he has made of the humanitarian situation in Haiti.
The Secretary of State for International Development (Mr Andrew Mitchell)
Although the number of people in camps in Haiti has fallen by half to 800,000 since last July, Haiti continues to face serious humanitarian challenges.
Caroline Dinenage
The President of Haiti famously said that it would take a thousand trucks a thousand days to clear the devastation, but the people do not have a thousand days, because they are suffering disease and crime, and they do not have a thousand trucks. What more can the international community do to tackle the problem?
Mr Mitchell
My hon. Friend is right to identify the scale of the damage and of what is required to put it right. We are working directly on tackling the threat of cholera, and working through the UN and the World Bank on some of the more serious aspects of what needs to happen to bring the relief that is required .