We once again face a Potential Humanitarian Crisis as the result of Serb repression within Kosovo.

It is preparing for the Potential Humanitarian Crisis which may emerge later this year as a result of, among other issues, prolonged food shortages and large displacements of commercial farm workers.

If my hon. Friend is attempting to create a statement from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development on the Potential Humanitarian Crisis now in Iraq, perhaps he could point out to her that the UN has called for corridors of peace, which UNICEF successfully established during the first Gulf war, both in Lebanon and Sudan, to ensure that as the aid comes in, it does not just sit on the dockside but is distributed to the people who need it most.

The Potential Humanitarian Crisis and other threats that may exist - such as people pouring in to safer areas or outbreaks of major diseases and pestilence - have all formed part of the force planning that has been undertaken, in recognition of the fact that it will be a small deployment.

East Sudan is scarcely ever discussed, but many people say that a Potential Humanitarian Crisis is developing there, on a scale that overshadows the crisis in Darfur.

That is why I mentioned in my statement the importance of planning for a Potential Humanitarian Crisis.

So I do not accept that we will not intervene where there is a Potential Humanitarian Crisis; we would, we will, we have in the past, but we should, as I say, ask ourselves the question, “What is in our national interest, what is the best way to proceed?