Results 1-13 of 13 for hunting speaker:Mr Peter Bradley

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Bradley: ...his reputation on this issue. He is absolutely right; there can be no reason for anyone in the country to believe that the House is acting unreasonably if we provide an 18-month delay to allow hunts to make their arrangements and to change to drag hunting if that is what they choose. What would be unreasonable is for the House of Lords to reject the motion. It would be perverse indeed if...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Bradley: I beg to move the amendment in my name. I must be brief. I no more wish to prolong the debate than I wish unduly to prolong hunting—

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Bradley: ...I, as his Parliamentary Private Secretary, am always right behind him, even if I will not go the extra mile myself this afternoon. My right hon. Friend has sought to identify common ground with the hunting fraternity and the House of Lords. It is doubtful, however, whether there is a piece of common ground big enough on which to pitch a tent that accommodates all of us. That is why he says...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Bradley: ...I want the House to have the opportunity to choose which of the motions on the Order Paper is the most reasonable. I believe that delay until 2006 is reasonable and sensible because it gives hunts the opportunity to adopt drag hunting to save the jobs, the dogs—and the fox for that matter—the fallen stock collection service to farmers and the way of life in which they believe,...

Princess Royal and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital Trusts (28 Apr 2003)

Mr Peter Bradley: ...and respond to merger issues. It is concerned that the proposed merger has been presented as a fait accompli. It is unhappy that possible configurations involving the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital have been excluded. It is far from persuaded that a major structural merger can be contemplated without attending in more detail to related service implications." The report...

Written Answers — Health: Hospitals (Shropshire) (12 Jun 2002)

Mr Peter Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the budgets for (a) the Royal Shrewsbury hospital, (b) the Princess Royal hospital, Telford and (c) the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt hospital in each year since 1995.

Written Answers — Health: Hospitals (Shropshire) (7 May 2002)

Mr Peter Bradley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the budgets for (a) the Royal Shrewsbury hospital, (b) the Princess Royal hospital, Telford and (c) the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt hospital in each year since 1995.

Prayers: Rural and Urban White Papers (26 Jan 2001)

Mr Peter Bradley: ...a time when people were seeing fewer and fewer police officers. Is he suggesting that we should not make that £30 million available? In view of what the Conservatives say about the consequences of the Hunting Bill for the police, will the hon. Gentleman also tell us whether his Front Benchers propose to recruit further police officers—and pay for that recruitment—to take...

Prayers: Rural and Urban White Papers (26 Jan 2001)

Mr Peter Bradley: ...a year additional funding—which he has just denigrated—that the Government are making available for rural policing? As it is the hon. Gentleman's party, not mine, that believes that the Hunting Bill will result in a need for further policing, will it fund that further policing? Will he answer those two straightforward questions?

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

Mr Peter Bradley: .... Liberty and justice are issues behind which some Members not known for their commitment to either have been hiding this evening. First, however, I want to make a simple point. Those who speak for hunting do not speak for the countryside. They have a right to defend their sport, but they should acknowledge that they do so on behalf of a minority of country dwellers who support hunting and...

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

Mr Peter Bradley: ...way of life, but for its own way of life. There is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with defending what one values, but I beg Conservative Members not to try to persuade me that hunting is necessary for pest control, for conservation and for employment. It is not necessary for any of those reasons; it is a sport. People do it because they enjoy it. I accept that people may...

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

Mr Peter Bradley: No. Unlike the right hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Major), I have been out with my local hunt. I have done so during the three short years that I have been a Member of Parliament, while the right hon. Gentleman has represented Huntingdon for considerably longer, showing the commitment—of which he spoke—to his rural community. I have been out with the hunt in my constituency and...

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

Mr Peter Bradley: ...progress in a democratic society—to decide that the moral climate has changed and that some activities are no longer tolerable. I believe that there is a settled national consensus that the hunting of foxes with hounds is morally repugnant and cannot be justified by any extenuating argument. That has been the view of the anti-hunting lobby not since 1997, as some Conservatives...