Hilary Benn
Hilary Benn
Hilary James Wedgwood Bennis a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliamentfor Leeds Central since a by-election in 1999. He served in the cabinet from 2003 to 2010, under the premierships of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Since 2010, he has served in various Labour Party shadow cabinets, most recently as Shadow Foreign Secretary from May 2015 to June 2016, when he was dismissed by Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 November 1953
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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.
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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.
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It is doing its work and those who are committing these crimes will in the end be brought to account.
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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.
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We have very little time to help left,
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I don't believe that for a second. This is for real.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If we are going to avoid a further wave of deaths we have to get shelter and protection to people who need it,