To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he will set a timetable to honour the commitment to meet the United Nations target of providing overseas aid at the level of 0·7 per cent. of gross national product; and if he will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the hon. Member for Monklands, West (Mr. Clarke) on 6 June, at column 129.