It is a criticism in recent years that the House has given insufficient attention to this problem, and at the height of the Greatest Financial and Economic Crisis we have ever had, and to take that opportunity to deal with that problem, a week before a Budget, by cutting out a whole section of the Budget discussions, is playing with the problem - a not infrequent occurrence in this Government.

The world has been engulfed as never expected by the Greatest Financial and Economic Crisis for generations, thrusting millions of our fellow citizens back into poverty and creating pressure for donor Governments across Europe and the world to turn inwards and slash aid funding.