Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting
Hunting Bill
2:30 pm
Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal, Conservative)
Did my hon. Friend notice that the Minister also said that one should not apply the exemption to rabbits because it would cause a great deal of bureaucracy and paperwork. Yet, evidently we are to apply it to stoats and weasels. I hope that my hon. Friend will press the point home.
The Minister has said that a gamekeeper who wants to use more than two dogs on stoats and weasels will have to ask for a licence. That is so preposterous and so ludicrous that he undermines any sense that the Bill may contain.