Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing a strategy on debt relief in low-income countries.

The UK plays a leadership role in international discussions on developing country debt. The government will continue to work with its international partners in the Paris Club and the G20 to urgently address debt vulnerabilities in low-income countries. The government will be responding to the International Development Committee’s recent inquiry into debt-relief in low-income countries in due course.