Clause 8 - Tests for registration: utility and least suffering
Hunting Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon, Conservative)
Well, no. [Laughter.] I can only answer the hon. Gentleman by reference to another passage from the late Ted Hughes, which had he not lunched so well he would have remembered that I quoted this morning. That gives him chapter and verse as to why the deer population on Exmoor was reduced. It was reduced because people stopped hunting on Exmoor. [Interruption.]