Hunting Bill
Public Bill Committees, 23 January 2003
Mr Peter Luff (Mid Worcestershire, Conservative)
On a point of order, Mr. Stevenson. I am genuinely puzzled about something. I do not know whether there is a mechanism for resolving it and I seek your guidance. Ideally, we should not have completed the clause 8 stand part debate because information in my hand shows that the Minister's comments to the Committee in that debate were entirely inconsistent with what the Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs says on its website.
On the current DEFRA website, rural development has links to the hunting with dogs page, the rural economy and communities web page also has such links, and until 20 December the landscape and recreation website was linked to hunting with dogs. In other words, DEFRA's website tells us that hunting with dogs has an impact on landscape and recreation and the rural economy and communities. Can the Minister deny that?
Mr George Stevenson (Stoke-on-Trent South, Labour)
Order. The hon. Gentleman has put his point on the record, but the Chair does not accept it as a point of order.Clause 9 The Registrar