Brendan Ryan (Labour)

It is claimed that the development movement is not giving value for money. Everyone knows that the development movement, through multilateral organisations, has been very poor. However, vast numbers of people working in development could use four times the amount of money they have and give us an enormous multiple effect in terms of development. It would help this debate enormously if we could get a coherent position from the Government — a coherent target not so far in the future that I will definitely have left politics along with many of those making the promise. We might not make it next year or the year after but 2010 is the upper limit of a renewed commitment. The year 2013 is so far away that it will leave billions dead.