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International Health Partnership

I absolutely agree. I am sure that the Minister will tell us that she has an appointment with President Bush shortly to do exactly that. I do not wish to be flippant, however, because key individuals, such as Margaret Chan, have gone not only the extra mile, but an extra 1,000 miles to draw attention to fact that we need funds and greater co-ordination if we are to deliver the health assistance that it so desperately required. Anything that we can learn from the Minister about how she and her colleagues are taking such issues forward and doing their bit will be very welcome. I was talking about Japan and the United States and I wonder whether there will be an opportunity at the G8 in Japan this summer to draw other countries into the IHPs. That would perhaps allow them to build on the work that the Government did three years ago at Gleneagles to draw the world's attention to the poverty agenda. We have touched on the issue of health professionals and the assistance and expertise that this country can offer developing countries. However, there is also the fraught issue of the migration of health professionals from those countries to our country. Codes have been drawn up broadly to regulate that migration, but how confident is the Minister about the way in which those codes are working? The EU is considering the issue more broadly. What input can we have in that respect?