Clause 8 - Tests for registration: utility and least suffering
Hunting Bill
3:45 pm
Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal, Conservative)
Did my hon. Friend notice that, from a sedentary position, the hon. Member for West Ham said that the RSPCA was honest? He meant, of course, that he does not think that that is true of the Countryside Alliance. It is interesting that he takes views only from an organisation that is run by somebody who is utterly opposed to foxhunting on any grounds and who lost her seat because of that. Apparently, the fox population keeps itself under control. Is there a suggestion that foxes possess some sort of hitherto unknown ability to exercise birth control? Is it not true that there is no way in which any mammal species can keep itself under control?