Clause 5 - Hunting: defence
Hunting Bill
9:45 am
Mr Hugo Swire (East Devon, Conservative)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his brevity in introducing the amendment. I do not necessarily agree with his objective or the way in which he seeks to achieve it. The amendment will not do what he thinks. I welcome his move towards believing that landowners should be protected from an inadvertent violation of the Bill. A few weeks ago, we had a discussion in which he seemed to be trying to achieve a slightly different objective.