Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition
Hunting Bill
10:45 am
Mr David Lidington (Aylesbury, Conservative)
The hon. Lady has returned to the issue of foxhunting. Foxes respond to any unfamiliar scent, sound or sight by taking fright and running away. That is their first instinctive reaction. There is, therefore, nothing strange about the behaviour that she described; it does not prove that the fox is suffering or that cruelty is being inflicted on it.