Hilary Benn Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

It is doing its work and those who are committing these crimes will in the end be brought to account.

We have a long way yet to go and we need to keep up the pressure if we are going to vanquish these terrible diseases.

We have very little time to help left,

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.

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,

There is a continued need for more helicopter capacity, to move in the inaccessible areas. The terrain here is very difficult and winter is approaching.

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.

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.

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.

Internationally, it is true the response hasn't frankly been good enough, and I don't understand it because nobody can be in any doubt whatsoever about the scale of the crisis,

And as we respond to the requests for help then the sum that we commit will rise,

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

Our changing climate has changed our politics

Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world