AFGHANISTAN AND HUMANITARIAN AID

Early day motion 1859, tabled 13 July 2009 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 24 members.

That this House is appalled at the theft and waste of most of the $25 billion aid provided for Afghanistan, only 20 per cent. of which reached its intended recipients; notes the great increase in the number of new Afghan millionaires and billionaires in Kabul, including members of President Karzai's family, while poverty is deepening elsewhere; regrets that after eight years of generous Western aid, Afghanistan has the world's third highest child mortality rate and the world's second highest maternity mortality rate; and further regrets NATO's uncritical support for the endemically corrupt Karzai government.

Signatures by party: Labour 15, Liberal Democrat 4, Independent 2, DUP 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.