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Mr. Allen: I am sorry to spring this one on my hon. Friend. I hope he will take the matter away and consider it rather than giving an answer from the Dispatch Box. Will my hon. Friend consider how we might involve Parliament in feeding ideas into the high level panel as it goes about its work? I do not know how that might best be done. It might be by way of pre-legislative scrutiny, meetings or whatever. However, it is important that all parties in the House have the opportunity to make a contribution.

Mr. Rammell: I agree with my hon. Friend. We have already been doing that in Westminster Hall and in Government time on the Floor of the House. We have initiated a debate on UN reform and enabled Members to come forward with their views. That is the right way forward. I have met the all-party group in the context of the UN and will seek to do that further.

We are facing critical challenges. The world we live in today is enormously more dangerous than it was even in the most recent past. It is critical that we face these questions, and we need all parliamentarians, the whole of civil society and the whole of the international community if we are to respond to them. In a small way, debates such as this one give us—

The motion having been made at Half-past Two o'clock, and the debate having continued for half an hour, Madam Deputy Speaker adjourned the House without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.

Adjourned at Three o'clock.

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