Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition
Hunting Bill
11:15 am
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham, Conservative)
I am grateful; perhaps the Minister and I are developing a symbiotic relationship, whereby I anticipate what he is about to say.
If the Minister is preoccupied with the cause of consistency with other legislation, he should be properly concerned not only with other animal welfare legislation, but with all other legislation that spews forth at a rate of knots from his own Department. Is the Minister aware that the Vehicles (Crime) Bill has just been in Committee, attended to most ably by his hon. Friend the Minister of State, Home Office, the Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Clarke)? That is important legislation, designed to tackle a serious evil, but most of the offences merit only a level 3 fine. Does the Minister not talk to his hon. Friend?