Select Committee on International Development Written Evidence


Joint Memorandum submitted by the Department for International Development and HM Treasury

WORLD BANK AND IMF ANNUAL MEETINGS: Dubai, September 2003

  The International Development Committee has requested a memorandum on the 2003 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank in advance of the Hearing on 6 November at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, and the Secretary of State for International Development, Hilary Benn, will give evidence.

  At the Annual Meetings held in Dubai in September, the Chancellor chaired the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) at which the Governor of the Bank of England (as the UK Alternate Governor of the IMF) represented the UK. At the Development Committee, the former Secretary of State for International Development, Baroness Amos (as the then UK Governor of the World Bank), represented the UK.

  This Memorandum consists of the following documents:

    —  the UK's Objectives Note circulated in advance of the Annual Meetings to interested NGOs and made publicly available on both DFID's and HM Treasury's websites (Annex A);

    —  the Joint Ministerial Statement to the Development Committee (Annex B);

    —  the IMFC and Development Committee Communiqués agreed for the Meetings (Annex C and D);

    —  the letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for International Development, with attachment, to all MPs on the outcome of the Annual Meetings (Annex E) (Not printed. Copy placed in the Library); and

    —  the letter from the Chancellor and the Secretary of State to interested NGOs (Annex F) (Not printed. Copy placed in the Library)[1]

October 2003




1   Also, Annex G has been submitted by HM Treasury, UK Statement to the IMFC. Back


 
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