Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting
Hunting Bill
2:30 pm
Mr John Gummer (Suffolk Coastal, Conservative)
Surely that point should be the other way round. If there is no question of people hunting stoats and weasels at the moment, but everyone accepts the need to keep them under control—their status is exactly the same as rats—why is the Minister not prepared to put stoats and weasels into the same category as rabbits and rats? If people started hunting them in an unsatisfactory way, it could be changed under the order-making procedure.