[Part II]
Hunting Bill
7:30 pm
Mr James Gray (North Wiltshire, Conservative)
I agree that that is not a satisfactory response. To pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal, I well remember when he was the Secretary of State for the Environment and I was his special adviser. I heard him saying on many occasions in this Room that hon. Members had made interesting and useful points, which he intended to take away and ask for further advice on, and that he might or might not come back to them on Report.
In reality, we rarely came back to them on Report because officials nearly always advanced a powerful argument for why something was as it was in the first place, but I do not ever recall my right hon. Friend simply dismissing the Opposition and saying—