To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on current Government support for programmes designed to protect the rain forests.

We are working with others internationally and through our aid programme to promote the sustainable management of this important resource. As I indicated on 9 May, in reply to the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), at column 9, our bilateral forestry projects include schemes in Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Brazil and the Ivory Coast.