Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting
Hunting (Re-committed) Bill
Public Bill Committees, 3 July 2003, 2:30 pm
Mr Michael Foster (Worcester, Labour)
I do not want to be discourteous, but the hon. Gentleman said that I adjusted my Bill to deal with flushing out and gun packs as a result of his arguments. I want to make it clear for the record that the exemption was written into my Bill before it went into Committee and before he made his case. Any amendment or exemption in my Bill in 1997 was a result not of his arguments, but of representations made to me by outside bodies.