Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting
Hunting Bill
10:45 am
Mr Alun Michael (Minister of State (Rural Affairs), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Cardiff South and Penarth, Labour/Co-operative)
I hardly like to suggest that Conservative Members want to distract us and take us away from the evidence, but I am starting to suspect that that is the case. I entirely accept that mink cause many problems, as the hon. Member for North Wiltshire said. The Bill gets it right in permitting pest control to be undertaken effectively and humanely.
To return to the question I was about to answer when I was intervened on for a second time, if an individual has an application turned down, they can
appeal to the tribunal. Conservative Members are presuming that the registrar and the tribunal will not deal with matters properly, objectively and in accordance with the law; I am confident that they will.