Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition
Hunting Bill
12:00 pm
Mr Lembit Öpik (Montgomeryshire, Liberal Democrat)
The situation is worse than that. I have just received a letter from the Minister, which says:
``I think the Bill makes it clear that hunting does not necessarily involve killing.''
It goes on to say:
``in many cases the outcome of hunting undertaken for these purposes will not be the death of the quarry.''
If that is so, does the hon. Gentleman agree that we are beginning to see some confusion over what flushing out with a dog entails? To an onlooker, there would be no difference in appearance between a dog flushing out a fox towards guns and a dog chasing a fox with the intention of killing it.