2 million for the Crisis in Southern Sudan during May bringing our overall assistance to Sudan since February to £10.

The Forum agreed to send a delegation to Nairobi and Khartoum to try and broker a short cease-fire in the areas most affected by the current Crisis in Southern Sudan so that food and seeds can reach all severely affected people.

They will now be used to help ease the terrible Crisis in Southern Sudan of which we are all aware.

The Mission found that from mid-July onwards the humanitarian response began to match the scale of the Crisis in Southern Sudan.

Clare Short: Since the current Crisis in Southern Sudan began last February we have committed over £28 million bilaterally to provide humanitarian relief to the most vulnerable areas.

Clare Short: Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) expanded its response in 1998 in very difficult circumstances as the Crisis in Southern Sudan unfolded.

The Secretary of State is not present and nobody appears to have read the International Development Committee's very good report and investigation into the factors leading to Crisis in Southern Sudan in Bar al Gazal in 1997, yet similar things are happening in Darfur.