Clause 8 - Tests for registration:
Hunting Bill
11:15 am
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire, Conservative)
The Minister asks one extremely sensible question and two extremely silly ones. I shall try to answer the first. Of course I did not suggest that mange in Bristol was caused by organised hunts, nor did I suggest that it was caused by such hunts anywhere. I said that 30 per cent. of all foxes killed elsewhere—not in the city of Bristol—have mange. That demonstrates that hunts tend to take out foxes with mange. To demonstrate how unpleasant the disease of mange is, I made the point that every single fox in the city of Bristol was killed by mange, not by hunts. It is very simple. The Minister is not terribly bright about such matters. Every fox in the city of Bristol was killed by mange. There are no organised hunts in the city of Bristol. I hope that I have made that clear.
It being twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock, The Chairman adjourned the Committee without question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
Adjourned till this day at half-past Two o'clock.