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World Food Programme

It is surely right—I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman agrees—that if the Department for International Development is giving substantial aid to a United Nations body, it should be critically helpful about that body's policy and, if necessary, about how it spends its money. Will the Committee Chairman tell us whether, in this instance, he thinks that there may have been a little bit of spite involved in those remarks, in that DFID was trying sensibly to suggest how WFP policy should be rolled forward?