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Point of Order (8 Jan 2003)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...address any problems on behalf of our constituents. I said that such a document would be helpful for us all. In December, I received a reply from the Under-Secretary of State for Health, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, dated 25 November 2002, a considerable time after I first wrote. I will not reprise for the benefit of the House the stream of verbiage in the Under-Secretary's letter, although...

Public Bill Committee: Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill: Clause 2 - Dates of birth and ballot papers (16 Oct 2001)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...identity sufficient to personate successfully in the polling station, but they would know that there could be a test of signature against signature at another stage. That would give the people hunting down electoral fraud a much greater ability to bring people to justice for defrauding the electoral system in that way. Putting that provision on the statute book and making known the fact...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr Crispin Blunt: ...many people's way of life in the countryside. I must tell the Minister that if my passion, which is cricket, were taken from me, and I considered that to be grossly unjustified—and people who hunt will think a ban on hunting grossly unjustified—I would probably be prepared to go to prison to demonstrate my opposition to what I would deem a gross illiberality.

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr Crispin Blunt: I want to pick up on the point that 61 per cent. of the hon. Gentleman's speeches in the House have been on security issues. The 200,000 or more people who take part in hunting know that his animal welfare arguments are hooey. Ironically, if hunting is banned, foxes, horses, hounds and everyone involved in the sport will be worse off, and more than 200,000 law-abiding people will be made into...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Roll On/Roll Off Container Ships (21 Feb 2000)

Mr Crispin Blunt: .... However, it would be rather odd if such measures were set alongside measures to reduce Fearless to the reserve; to place a further three frigates and destroyers into the reserve; to put four Hunt class MCMVs to reserve; to put three Sandown class MCMVs to reserve; to lay up three further Royal Fleet Auxiliaries; and to bring home Dumbarton Castle from the Falkland islands. I understand,...