It will take a long time to deal with the Crisis in Ethiopia.
We cannot feed these people all the time, although we can provide aid in special emergencies, such as the Crisis in Ethiopia.
The House understands that our aid programme has to deal with the desperate Crisis in Ethiopia recently as well as long-term development.
Yet, faced with a Crisis in Ethiopia, likely to be repeated in Chad and elsewhere, the Government cut overseas aid.
Is it possible to have a statement next week on what steps Her Majesty's Government are taking to relieve the Crisis in Ethiopia?
Therefore, the Government should make a statement on the Crisis in Ethiopia where thousands of people are dying every day from famine and war.
However, the number of people at risk is between 6 million and 7 million and a much larger response from the whole international community to the impending Crisis in Ethiopia is clearly required.
The Crisis in Ethiopia is acute, and the world must address it if we are to avoid falling back once again on the efforts of charities attempting heroically but often too late to stem the flow of innocent life into the dirt of sub-Saharan Africa.
I welcome the fact that my hon. Friend has raised the Crisis in Ethiopia.
Many questions need to be answered about the reaction to the immediate Crisis in Ethiopia and about our long-term policy on development aid to countries in conflict.
During the Crisis in Ethiopia, which was also debated in this Chamber, we learned that the pharaoh's granary—as I like to call it—that Ethiopia had set up to deal with food shortages following the previous famine had been depleted by the United States of America and the EU.
Furthermore, emergency food aid is of limited use in addressing the structural problems at the basis of the current Crisis in Ethiopia.
My right hon. Friend will be aware of the evolving Crisis in Ethiopia.
We recognise the urgency of the Crisis in Ethiopia.
I defer to the right hon. Gentleman's expertise, given his examination of the issues in the Select Committee, but the fact that in certain circumstances - for example, the political Crisis in Ethiopia - we are prepared to withhold elements of budget support testifies to the fact that we monitor extremely carefully the circumstances in which it is appropriate for funds to flow directly through Government systems.