To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps his Department took to mark the suffering of the victims of the (a) Holocaust and (b) recent genocides on Holocaust Memorial Day. (183831)

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government spoke at the Holocaust Memorial Day 2008 in Liverpool, which took place on 27 January. I also attended in my role as a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. The powerful commemoration rightly acknowledged the suffering experienced by the victims of other more recent atrocities including those that occurred in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.