Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition
Hunting Bill
4:51 pm
Mr John Maples (Stratford-on-Avon, Conservative)
Is the Minister saying that, in the absence of the Bill, it will be necessary to criminalise that kind of trespass? If he were not introducing a Bill to ban foxhunting, would the Government introduce a Bill to criminalise the trespass of those who hunt? He seems to be saying that there is a need for the Bill now. It is not in relation to the offences created by the Bill that there is a need to criminalise that kind of trespass; it can be done now.