Results 1-20 of 24 for hunting speaker:Margaret Beckett

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Renewable Transport Fuels (9 Jun 2005)

Margaret Beckett: ...my hon. Friend that we are willing to learn lessons from any source that is useful and practical, and I take his point. As I think I said earlier to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt), we are starting from an extremely low starting point. The target that we have set for 2005 is, from memory, about five or six times the present level of consumption. Some member states in the...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Fallen Stock (25 Nov 2002)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ..., it is for the industries concerned to work out how best to deal with their waste problems and to publish details of their proposal. We do not have figures for the amount of fallen stock that hunt kennels have collected in the last year.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Fox Hunting (12 Jul 2002)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...to meet with representatives of the three main interest organisations on a regular basis. They are the Countryside Alliance, the Middle Way Group and the Campaign for the Protection of the Hunted Animal. In addition to these regular meetings, he is holding a number of meetings with a wide range of groups with more specific interests Following my right hon. Friend's statement to the House...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Sustainable Technologies (20 May 2002)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...answer 13 May 2002 My Department consulted more than 700 key stakeholders on draft proposals for the TSE (England) Regulations 2002, representing renderers, slaughterhouses, farmers, knackers, hunt kennels, veterinary, consumer and medical interests and enforcement authorities. That is, the people who are actually affected or need to know. The consultation package was distributed in...

BSE: Foot and Mouth (15 Nov 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...lift restrictions on falconry, and we shall give greater freedom to operate, for instance, to small teams working to catch vermin in specific farm areas. However, when people think of conventional hunting they think of people riding horses, and so on. There are different regimes for such hunting in different parts of the country, depending on disease status. That is the veterinary advice...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Ministerial Responsibilities (9 Jul 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...right hon. Alun Michael MP Rural affairs and countryside issues. Oversight of delivery of Rural White Paper. Chairs Rural Task Force. Partnership with voluntary and community groups in rural areas. Hunting with hounds. Regional issues. Overall lead on ERDP. Department's e-business strategy. Parliamentary Secretary (Commons): Elliot Morley MP Animal Health, including TSEs and follow-up to...

Business of the House (26 Apr 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: As my hon. Friend knows, the Hunting Bill is in the upper House. The Government's approach has always been to allow a free vote on it. I have no reason to suppose that that stance is likely to change.

Business Statement (2 Apr 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: Although the hon. Gentleman talks about Bills shuttling between the House and the upper Chamber, certainly at least one of those that he mentions—the Hunting Bill—is still in the upper Chamber, and I cannot quite recall where we are with the others, but they are still in the upper Chamber.

Business of the House (15 Mar 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...the handling of debates in the upper House. I have not followed the detail of what has been happening in the upper House. My understanding, however, is that the procedures that were adopted for the Hunting Bill were welcomed and supported by representatives of every part of the upper House—those on the Bishops Bench the Cross Benches and others—with the sad exception of those...

Business of the House (15 Mar 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...election, which, as far as I am aware, has not been called. I understand my hon. Friend's concern. It is clear from the way in which the House voted that a majority of Members take the view that a hunting Bill should reach the statute book, and the House has given its verdict on the form that that legislation should take. It is a matter for Members of the other place how and when they take...

Business of the House (15 Feb 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...(Advice and Assistance) Bill [Lords]. Motion to approve the Administration Committee report on the trial summer reopening of the line of route. TUESDAY 27 FEBRUARY—Remaining stages of the Hunting Bill. WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY—Opposition Day [6th Allotted Day]. There will be a debate on an Opposition motion. Subject to be announced. THURSDAY 1 MARCH—Consideration in...

Business of the House (15 Feb 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...will be carefully considered by my right hon. and hon. Friends who deal with those issues. Discussions are under way about the best method of scheduling and debating the remaining stages of the Hunting Bill to ensure that hon. Members have an opportunity to reach a proper decision according to the wish of the majority. I cannot say more now, but those discussions are being undertaken in a...

Business of the House (11 Jan 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...Reading of the Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill. Motion on the Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions)(No.4) Order 2000. WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY Consideration in Committee of the Hunting Bill. THURSDAY 18 JANUARY—Opposition Day [1st Allotted Day]. Until about 4 o'clock, there will be a debate on "Teacher Supply and Standards in Education", followed by a debate entitled...

Business of the House (11 Jan 2001)

Miss Margaret Beckett: The hon. Lady raised the issue of having only one day to debate hunting. I do not recall being asked for more than one day on the Floor in Committee on the Hunting Bill, nor do I see any great necessity for it. It is a relatively simple issue. Members will have differing views about the options that we should pursue. The whole idea is that a decision in principle will be made as to which...

Business of the House (21 Dec 2000)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...them to her, to all hon. Members from every party, to you, Mr. Speaker, and to the staff of the House. I cannot tell the hon. Lady when the day on the Floor of the House for consideration of the Hunting Bill is likely to be, but we shall try to give Members as much notice as we can. I take her point. I also take note of her request for a debate on the intelligence services, and we shall...

Business of the House (14 Dec 2000)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...Urban Regeneration in England. Details will be given in the Official Report. At 10pm the House will be asked to agree all outstanding estimates. WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER—Second Reading of the Hunting Bill. THURSDAY 21 DECEMBER—Motions on the Social Security Benefits Up-rating (No. 2) Order and the Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase (No. 2) Order. Motion on the Christmas...

Orders of the Day — The Economy (13 Dec 2000)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...the speech and the programme contain much else: measures for children with special educational and care needs; measures on housing; and an early chance to give a view on the different approaches to hunting with hounds. The hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton referred to the Regulatory Reform Bill, which will give us the power to remove regulation that is accepted to be out of date and...

Business of the House (7 Dec 2000)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...15 DECEMBER—Debate on embryology on a motion for the Adjournment of the House. The provisional business for the following week will include: MONDAY 18 DECEMBER—Second Reading of the Hunting Bill. Motions relating to the Draft Millennium Commission (Substitution of a Later Date) Order and the Draft Apportionment of Money in the National Lottery Distribution Fund Order 2000....

Business of the House (22 Jun 2000)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...6 JULY—Estimates Day [2nd Allotted Day]. At 7 o'clock, the House will be asked to agree all outstanding estimates. FRIDAY 7 JULY—Debate on the report of the Committee of Inquiry into hunting with dogs in England and Wales on a motion for the Adjournment of the House. I should also like to inform the House of business to be taken in Westminster Hall during July. THURSDAY 6...

Business of the House (27 Jan 2000)

Miss Margaret Beckett: ...Friend and the House the information that, having read Madam Speaker's selection of amendments, which were debated over the previous two days, and seeing that there was a reference to clause 4, I hunted for the clause for some considerable time before I could find it. It is one short and unimportant line in the Bill, which nevertheless was debated for some hours by Opposition Members...