Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition
Hunting Bill
10:30 am
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham, Conservative)
Will my hon. Friend consider the possibility that eventual imprisonment of offenders is indeed what the Government have in mind? Their Machiavellian calculation may be that wealthy people will go abroad to hunt, but relatively poor people will stay here to do so, thus—wrongly, of course—breaking the law. They will then find themselves unable to pay the fines and end up in prison.