Clause 2 - Registered hunting
Hunting Bill
10:45 am
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire, Conservative)
We now move to a group of amendments under clauses 2 and 3 which seek to make the Bill much more workable. I hope they are a helpful series of amendments that the Minister will listen to carefully. It is funny that he sniggers at that suggestion. The purpose of considering a Bill in Committee is to look at the detail and then try to make it better. The Minister has often said that he wants the Bill to be broadly acceptable. He wants the public in the countryside to understand and believe that it is a reasonable, workable proposition. I believe he has already failed to do that, but none the less, surely he will accept our good intent, on some occasions at least, in saying that this is how we can make the Bill better.