To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contribution the Government have made to the US Administration's strategy review of Afghanistan. (270549)

[holding answer 22 April 2009]: As a key ally of the US, the UK provided assistance to a US-led review of American defence and security policy in the Greater Middle East and Central Asian area, including the secondment of Ministry of Defence, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development officials to contribute to this work.

I also refer the hon. Member to the answer my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Gillian Merron) gave on 26 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1795-96W.