New clause 8 - Compensation
Hunting (Re-committed) Bill
4:45 pm
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire, Conservative)
My right hon. Friend is right; this is yet another example of the British Government choosing to do things in a different way—an incompetent way, in this case—from other European nations. The same applies to the disgraceful episode of horse passports. The Government are choosing to enforce such passports in the horse industry, although it will have a devastating effect on that industry in England, and although the European Commission has made it perfectly plain that they do not have to.