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Sessional Orders: Debate on the Address — [First Day] (15 Nov 2006)

Tony Blair: ...in respect of Wales. I pay tribute, too, to the tremendous skill, patience and, at times, personal courage with which he tried to find a way through the various difficulties in respect of the hunting ban, not least trying to persuade the Countryside Alliance that it would be not so bad. In addition, he did something that is really worth remembering—he mentioned it in his speech. I...

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Hunting Bill (27 May 2004)

Mr Tony Blair: Since January I have received over 1,600 letters and cards about the issue of hunting. Given the volume of correspondence I receive, over one million letters and cards in the last year covering a broad spectrum of issues, my office records letters by subject rather than by the view expressed.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (7 Jan 2004)

Mr Tony Blair: If the hon. Gentleman is referring to the hunting issue, it is, as I have said previously, subject to a free vote, and a matter for the House.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (2 Jul 2003)

Mr Tony Blair: ...hon. Friend the Minister for Rural Affairs and Local Environmental Quality has already said. I supported the compromise proposals that he put forward; it is now for the other House to consider the Hunting Bill.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Iraq (4 Jun 2003)

Mr Tony Blair: ...operations and investigations being carried out by the US military. It will also include former United Nations arms inspectors, and it represents a significant expansion of effort in the coalition hunt for weapons of mass destruction.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Hunting (1 Jul 2002)

Mr Tony Blair: I have received 4,770 campaign cards and 1,280 letters this year about the issue of hunting. My office has not broken them down into categories. All representations to me on this issue since Thursday 21 March have been passed to my right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Rural Affairs who will consider them as part of the process he announced to the House.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Hunting With Hounds (24 Jun 2002)

Mr Tony Blair: No. My right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Rural Affairs has met a variety of people, including those involved in different forms of hunting, as part of the process he announced to the House on 21 March 2002.

Written Answers — Prime Minister: Regulatory Reform (17 Jun 2002)

Mr Tony Blair: ...involve the least burden to business. The current Ministers are: Dr. Kim Howells MP (Department for Culture, Media and Sport); Lord Whitty (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs); Lord Hunt of Kings (Department of Health); Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Home Office); Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Lord Chancellor's Department); Nigel Griffiths MP (Department of Trade and Industry);...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Nov 2001)

Mr Tony Blair: ...happy to confirm that. There is complete agreement on the military objectives of removing the Taliban regime, which I am pleased to say is largely now achieved, and making sure that we pursue and hunt down the terrorist network of al-Qaeda, on which we have made considerable progress. There is complete agreement on making sure that we get the humanitarian aid into Afghanistan, which is...

International Coalition Against Terrorism (14 Nov 2001)

Mr Tony Blair: ...people is terrorism, let history be a witness that we are terrorists." They are terrorists, and history will judge them as such. Before the history books are written, however, we will continue to hunt them down, and we will continue to do so for as long as it takes to bring them to the justice they deserve. They are guilty and they will face justice, and today, thankfully, they have far...

International Coalition Against Terrorism (14 Nov 2001)

Mr Tony Blair: ... 11 September, various parts of the organisation and terrorists connected with it were in different parts of the world. That is why it is important that we ensure that, wherever they are, they are hunted down. They have shown by their acts how dangerous they are.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (17 Jan 2001)

Mr Tony Blair: I have made it quite clear, and my position has not changed. I am opposed to fox hunting for the reasons that I have given on many occasions. As for what I said on "Question Time", we shall wait and see exactly what happens in the other place. However, I think that it is absolutely certain that the will of this place will be made very clear.

Opposition Day: Parliament and the Executive (13 Jul 2000)

Mr Tony Blair: The House of Lords prevented the fox hunting Bill from proceeding. [Interruption.] It was perfectly clear that the House of Lords was not prepared to agree to it, but it will happen now, and people will be able to vote on it.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Jul 1999)

Mr Tony Blair: ...in schools, better schools for all our children. The Tory party opposes that extra investment and opposes the money for smaller class sizes, and that is because it is happy to stand for fox hunting and hereditary peers. When it comes to the minimum wage and class sizes, we need a Labour Government.

Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements (17 Mar 1999)

Mr Tony Blair: My hon. Friend is right. No stone will be left unturned in the hunt for the killers, whose clear intent in murdering Mrs. Nelson was to stir up tensions in the local and wider communities and to attack the political process. The investigation by David Phillips, chief constable of Kent, will be independent—as my hon. Friend wishes—and he will be given every possible assistance by...

Prayers: Omagh (2 Sep 1998)

Mr Tony Blair: ...undermine this peaceful future. Amid what I believe to be unprecedented co-operation between Governments and police forces, we continue to provide maximum support to the RUC and the Garda as they hunt for those responsible for the Omagh bomb and other outrages. I can assure the House that the investigation to bring to justice those responsible is being pursued with the utmost intensity and...

Prayers: Omagh (2 Sep 1998)

Mr Tony Blair: ...to proceed without legislation, but that it is right to proceed step by step with the Irish Government, showing that there is a determination, in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, to hunt down those responsible and to bring them to justice, recognising that this is a different situation and that those people have no support and no votes anywhere.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (29 Jul 1998)

Mr Tony Blair: Hon. Members have made clear their view, with a very large majority indeed in favour of banning hunting. My right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester—[HON. MEMBERS: "Right honourable?"] My apologies; no doubt he will be in due course, but not quite yet. Of course, the private Member's Bill promoted by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster) failed through the action of its...

Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements (25 Feb 1998)

Mr Tony Blair: Unlike the Conservative party, I certainly believe that love of fox hunting is not the same as love of the countryside.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (9 Jul 1997)

Mr Tony Blair: I have voted before in favour of a ban on fox hunting, and I shall continue to do so. I believe that a ban may be imposed without the massive destruction to the countryside that some people fear. We are all entitled to make up our minds according to the evidence. That is what I intend to do, and I suggest that other hon. Members do likewise.