To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will make a statement on co-operation with Japan in international aid and development. [18445]

The UK and Japan worked closely together with developing the OECD DAC strategy for halving the proposition of people living in extreme poverty by 2015. We are both firmly committed to the agreed international development targets and to working closely together. We are co-operating on specific joint projects in key social sectors such as health, education and water in Africa and Asia, and on reconstruction projects in Bosnia.