Results 1-20 of 38 for hunting speaker:John Bercow

Deferred Division: European Affairs (20 Jun 2007)

John Bercow: ...Let us consider co-operation on energy policy. It is manifestly clear that it is to our advantage for energy policy purposes and in the attempt to combat climate change to try to pool our resources and hunt as a pack. We all know that we need significantly to free up the energy market and that there is a commitment to try to ensure 20 per cent. renewables use in future. That requires...

Orders of the Day: Mental Health Bill [Lords] (16 Apr 2007)

John Bercow: ...right. He has reiterated on the Floor of the House a powerful point made by my noble Friend Earl Howe in the other place. I was surprised and disappointed at the paucity of the comeback of Lord Hunt of Kings Heath—an extremely experienced Minister with considerable expertise.

Opposition Day — [3rd Allotted Day]: Disabled Children (23 Jan 2007)

John Bercow: ...and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble), because she speaks with integrity and authority on the issues that we are discussing. I also pay warm tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt), who offered the House both a forensic dissection of some of the failings of the system and a philosophical framework that will inform the policy of the next Conservative Government, and I...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr John Bercow: ...it would also be regressive and discriminatory? Can he confirm that the effect of such a ban would be that, whereas wealthy people would simply go to Ireland or travel to parts of the continent to hunt, people of modest means would not be able to do so? It is a measure calculatedly directed against the poor who enjoy hunting.

Brain Tumours (Children) (26 Apr 2004)

Mr John Bercow: ...testifies that a reliable and up-to-date source of information is necessary, because there is no central repository of information on this cancer, leaving patients, carers and families having to hunt for knowledge. The options and the treatments available should be fully explained, and in layman's terms. For example, if surgery is proposed, what is available? What drugs are available?...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting (13 Nov 2001)

Mr John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she plans to publish the veterinary risk assessment report on the effect of foot and mouth on a recommencement of hunting.

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: I accept my hon. Friend's point that there is a difference in scale between fur farming and hunting, and the compensation that might be required. However, does he agree that it would be outrageous and despicable if the Government were to take the view that they would pay for the principle of equity only if they thought that they could afford the price?

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ...rightly directed me to the subject of mammals, rather than the specific activities of flushing and stalking, Mr. O'Hara—is inadvertently disturbed? After all, it is a natural instinct for dogs to hunt animals, as has been pointed out in many previous debates. One need only watch a pet dog chasing squirrels in the park to see that fact clearly. If the amendments were accepted, an...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ...should be a happy man. If she can show that our fears are misplaced, that would be a good thing—but I think it unlikely. Paragraph 9 provides that it is a defence for a person charged with hunting a wild mammal with a dog to prove that he was using the dog to retrieve a rabbit or a hare. Again, there is a problem. A requirement seems to be imposed on the person charged to prove one...

Points of Order (8 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I should be most grateful to you for your guidance. Would you be good enough to confirm to the House that the fact that the Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 3) motion, on extending the time for debate, is not eligible for debate in no way precludes us from saying that, although the extension of time is welcome, it is patently inadequate for the consideration of...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ...before the end of the previous sitting, the amendments would change the exceptions to the general offence for which the Bill provides to cover any wild mammal, with the exception of the defence of hunting rodents. The Bill applies those exceptions only to the stalking or flushing out of foxes, hares and rabbits, the retrieval of a rabbit or a hare that has been shot, searching for an...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ..., arguably, hares do not rest in cover. Therefore, the Bill is inadequate in allowing them only to be flushed from cover. Several of my constituents who are members of one or other of the various hunts in my patch made that point in correspondence. We have discussed ``Archbold'' a great deal, but I want to refer to the third edition of the ``Handbook of British Mammals'', which is edited...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Supervision (8 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ...—[Laughter.] The purpose of the amendments is to change the exceptions to the general offence for which the Bill provides to cover any wild mammal, with the exception of the defence of hunting rodents. As you, Mrs. Roe, and the Committee alike will be aware, as it stands, the Bill will apply the exceptions only to the stalking or flushing out of foxes, hares and rabbits.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (6 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: Will the Minister comment on the situation in which a landowner is aware that hunting may take place on his land on dates as yet unspecified, but is not aware of a particular occasion when hunting had or was about to take place?

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (6 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ...on me. As you will be keenly aware, Mrs. Roe, as an assiduous student of the Bill, and as I think the Committee will know, sub-paragraph (7), if amended by amendment No. 119, would permit hunting where a landowner requested it in the interests of conservation, whether of animals, birds or plants, or in the interests of the management of the quarry population. That would be a much more...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (6 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ...—3 May. In the briefing for Members of Parliament, the Farmers Union of Wales explained its position clearly, and we are duty bound to take account of it. Although it remains neutral on hunting as a sport, believing it to be a matter of individual conscience, it firmly supports the right of farm owners and landowners to hunt and destroy vermin to contain livestock losses that would...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (6 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ...;perhaps volubly—is, nevertheless, only spectating and not participating in the sport? Does he also accept that someone standing, walking, observing and perhaps expressing enthusiasm for a hunt, is only spectating, not participating, and, therefore, is not required to prove anything?

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (6 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: ...hon. Friend consider the possibility that eventual imprisonment of offenders is indeed what the Government have in mind? Their Machiavellian calculation may be that wealthy people will go abroad to hunt, but relatively poor people will stay here to do so, thus—wrongly, of course—breaking the law. They will then find themselves unable to pay the fines and end up in prison.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (6 Feb 2001)

Mr John Bercow: I very much agree with my hon. Friend: hunting is a victimless crime, or what Mill would have described as a ``self-regarding act''. However, further to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames), having attended a meet of the Bicester hunt last Saturday morning, I can confirm that the behaviour of Mr. Rupert Soames was impeccable.

Science and Technology Committee (31 Jan 2001)

Mr John Bercow: They came into his consideration of hunting.