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Written Answers — Home Department: Hunting (11 Nov 2004)

Mr Bob Blizzard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he will take to enforce the proposed ban on hunting with dogs in the event of deliberate law-breaking.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting With Dogs (20 May 2004)

Mr Bob Blizzard: When she will be in a position to bring forward legislation to ban hunting with dogs.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting With Dogs (20 May 2004)

Mr Bob Blizzard: I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. There have been inquiries and endless debates on whether hunting is an essential tool of countryside management, but is not the key to be found on the placards that huntsmen hold up when they go on their demonstrations? The placards say, "Leave country sports alone". Hunting is a sport. It is a cruel sport. It is an unnecessary sport. It is a...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...in the town centres in my constituency right up to the election, and what I shall say tonight is consistent with what I said then. The main reason why I hold these views is that I believe that hunting is cruel. I reached that conclusion by studying at great length what the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had to say, and most people respect that orgnisation. I...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ..., including the very valuable Burns report. Last night, I looked again at the report and found that in his summary conclusions on welfare and cruelty Burns comes down much more firmly against foxhunting than I had originally thought. He says that it seriously compromises the welfare of the fox and states at some length that the fox is not always killed at a single bite or nip and refers to...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Bob Blizzard: Yes, but one of the arguments put to me was that hunting is necessary to keep the hare under control. I was told that many jobs were at stake, but Burns has well and truly settled that argument with the numbers that he has come up with. He is clear that the economic effects are unlikely to be substantial. I would argue that there need be hardly any job losses if drag hunting is pursued. I...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...the radio about licensing. All we hear in the Chamber is that there is too much red tape and bureaucracy in this country. I do not want even more red tape to be created by complaints commissions on hunting. If we license hunting there will be a mountain of red tape. I want a ban on hunting. Furthermore, I want drag hunting to be developed—perhaps that could become the fourth way. As...

Agriculture (28 Oct 1999)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...own shops, as they have been able to do. I have had very few complaints about the Government's action on beef on the bone, other than from some fox hunters, who tried to link the issues of fox hunting and beef on the bone.

Opposition Day: Planning (3 Feb 1999)

Mr Bob Blizzard: ...been presented in a series of attacks as the destroyers of the green belt and the despoilers of the countryside. The Conservatives have thrown in a bit about beef on the bone and a bit about fox hunting and have tried to present that as the end of rural life as we know it. That has left the ordinary people who live in the rural areas very cold. Nearly two years on, we can see that those...