Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the whole of the DFID budget is effectively allocated and that, if non-governmental organisations or others exhort him to spend more money on one aspect of international development, however worthwhile, it behoves them to explain where in the departmental budget other savings need to be made?

On Wednesday 14 March, Tony Baldry MP attended the presentation of the Rotary International Polio Eradication Champion Award at the House of Commons.

As you know through World Vision, I sponsor a child in Addis Ababa – indeed the members of the Church of which I am a member in Bloxham, I think sponsor eight children in the same project in the centre of Addis and we maintain close contact with them – and indeed I visited the project myself a couple of years ago to meet with my sponsored child and see the work of World Vision in Ethiopia and I know that others from Bloxham have made similar visits.

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): What development support he is providing to Burma. [92784]

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): My right hon. Friend is the first UK Minister to have visited Burma for a very long time. Will he please take this opportunity to update the House on the outcome of that visit, particularly on his discussions with Aung San Suu Kyi?

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): I spent time with Oxfam in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984. It is difficult to describe the horror of famine—its scale, one’s helplessness, the Martian-headed skeletons of marasmus, the swollen bellies of kwashiorkor, and the glassy eyes of children one knows, notwithstanding all efforts, will be dead by tomorrow. Then and now, these famines of biblical proportions kill fellow human beings slowly, painfully, and desperately. It is the death of their humanity and a collective test of ours.

On the 4th and 5th August 2011, I took part in a workshop in Chiang Mai, organised by the Burma Women’s League and VSO. Please click on the link to access a copy of the notes provided following the workshop: Workshop on Women Political Leaders.

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much and what proportion of its funding for climate change adaptation and mitigation measures his Department has provided to smallholder farmers in the latest period for which figures are available. [65886]

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether he has considered the merits of measures to build long-term resilience into the national agricultural systems of the countries of the horn of Africa. [65887]

MP for North Oxfordshire, Tony Baldry, this week took part in one of the largest ever lobbies of Parliament, when more than 1,000 campaigners from across England and Wales descended on Westminster to argue the case for action on global poverty.