Hilary Benn Quotations

The situation for many people forced from their homes by the conflict in northern Uganda is desperate. That's why I am reallocating GBP15 million to help the U.N. provide food and access to health care to those affected.

If we are going to avoid a further wave of deaths we have to get shelter and protection to people who need it,

Delays in getting aid to those who need it cost lives. That is why we need to ensure we have the means to deliver it straight away and why we need this emergency fund.

Every year up to three million children die from diseases that could be prevented by vaccines that are available now or could be in the near future.

It is a very, very important deal. But there are other countries represented on the World Bank board in particular and they need to support it too.

Those are differences that spring from the individual decisions of donors, no doubt rational in their own right, but they result in an irrational and an unfair outcome.

Our immediate contribution of 3 million pounds will help deliver food to those most in need. But on its own, this emergency response will not help people to escape from poverty and hunger.

The deal done in Gleneagles was a deal of the G8 countries, and there are others that need to come in, and understandably they have asked questions about it,

I don't believe that for a second. This is for real.

I am concerned by recent developments in Uganda and I have decided to cut 15 million pounds from our planned budget support this year and postpone a decision on whether to provide a further five million pounds until after the elections.