Results 1-20 of 54 for hunting speaker:Ian Cawsey

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

Mr Ian Cawsey: May I offer clarification to the House? The report that the hon. Gentleman is referring to, which looked into the welfare implications for hunting dogs, was not from a committee of the Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare. The group commissioned the report, but the people on the committee were from the Kennel Club, the Dogs Trust and the RSPCA, as well as a veterinary surgeon from...

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

Mr Ian Cawsey: ...comments by the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) about whether a delay is right. It is a narrow point. The House has now made its decision on what should happen to hunting in general, and I shall focus on the issue of a delay. I am the chairman of the Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare and, about a year ago, the Kennel Club wrote to me to say...

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

Mr Ian Cawsey: It did, and it gave written and oral evidence. The Scottish Countryside Alliance also gave evidence, as did the Council of Hunting Associations and numerous groups representing the various breeds of dogs used in hunting. We concluded that the wholesale destruction of dogs in the event of a ban could be avoided and our report contained six recommendations on what could be done, although it is...

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

Mr Ian Cawsey: I do not want to get into that argument. I am trying to set out the findings of our working group. I do not know how many dogs or hunt owners will be in the three categories I described earlier, but I know that there are hunt people who want time and support to do the best for their dogs. If we do not give them that chance by voting for the motion, I fear that we shall be putting them in an...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 11 - Prescribed animal welfare bodies (28 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: ...has made donations to the Conservative party and to the Liberal Democrat party; if it is nothing else, that is at least a balanced approach. The Labour party has had a policy on a free vote on hunting with dogs for a very long time. The only reason why it has taken until now is our singularly unimpressive record in getting elected.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 8 - Tests for registration: utility and least suffering (21 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: People are likely to speculate about what may happen in the event of a ban, so has my right hon. Friend reflected on the Scottish scenario? Scotland has a substantial deer population and hunting with dogs for deer has not taken place historically.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 8 - Tests for registration: utility and least suffering (16 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: I agree. Does the Minister agree that we have heard Opposition Members saying that hunts will never go on land without the owner's permission? Therefore, they will not seek registration unless the landowner has been consulted, in which case the amendment is completely useless. The landowner should be the first person to be consulted, even before registration.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill (8 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: ...the Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Hull football clubs, and the rugby clubs of Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers—the clubs, in part, pay for the policing of their events. However, when it comes to a hunt, policing is suddenly provided free, at my expense as a council tax payer.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill (8 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: The police's job is always to protect innocent people against those who break the law, but a look at any history of hunting would show that that is not restricted to one side or the other. There has been good and bad on both sides. I think that I am right in saying that the only person who has been killed at a hunt was an anti-hunt person, not a pro-hunt person. The people being looked after...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill (8 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: ..., and not just to the Bill. We were talking about the amount of parliamentary time that has been spent on this matter. I have been in the House since 1997, and this is not the first attempt at a hunting Bill. I was a sponsor of the Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster) in 1997. It was pointed out that, when we have such debates, those who are most wound...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill (8 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: ...must say in fairness to him that he was present for the statement, but the number of Conservative Members present went from more than 100 to about five, which says something about their priorities: hunting was everything; education was nothing. That says a great deal about where the Conservatives are on this issue. There is something in the Bill. I have come to the Committee looking...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill (8 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: ...from different parts of the country to the table. We will have the opportunity to discuss those experiences and make of them what we will. I think that the hon. Gentleman would agree that hunting with dogs is a seasonal activity. My hon. Friend the Member for West Ham once said that we do not have a close season for cockroaches and I understand his point. People in the countryside are not...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill (8 Jan 2003)

Mr Ian Cawsey: I suppose that my point is that large numbers of people who hunt are bad mannered.

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Ian Cawsey: I shall make a few brief comments on hunting with dogs—although when the Government announced that we would have three votes this evening, I thought that perhaps we did not need a debate at all, but could go straight to the votes, because I shall be surprised if, at the end of the debate, any hon. Members have changed their views since they came into the Chamber. Nevertheless, as we...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Ian Cawsey: ...they do not do it because they want to be cruel. The only person who has offered an argument against that is the hon. Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Page), who rightly pointed out that hunting with dogs is seasonal because at certain times of the year hunts cannot go through the growing crops. He then rather gave that argument away by saying that although people can hunt with...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Ian Cawsey: ...the argument that dogs kill a mammal in the most humane way—the single nip on the back of the neck argument. Every single year—I accept that this is not the intention of those who hunt—there are instances of hunts attacking other prey or quarry. It might be people walking the dog—[Hon. Members: "No, they don't."] Opposition Members are saying that they do not, but I...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Ian Cawsey: ...polls that are unbalanced. I shall finish my speech by considering the issue of liberty. I spoke in the previous debate on this subject when I told the House that I had attended the New Forest drag hunt. When I got there, like many other people, I was subjected to a chap shoving a camera in my face. He took photographs of me and everyone else who attended the hunt. When I asked the people...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting With Dogs (28 Feb 2002)

Mr Ian Cawsey: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the government's policy on hunting with dogs.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (25 Jan 2001)

Mr Ian Cawsey: I accept that members of the Committee may not have heard of Deadline 2000, but I hope that all of us have heard of the Environment Agency. Back in 1996, it stated: Mink hunting is an ineffective method of control and there is concern that it causes indiscriminate disturbance to river habitats, especially significant where otters are beginning to recolonise. The Environment Agency wishes to...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (25 Jan 2001)

Mr Ian Cawsey: Is my hon. Friend aware that research now shows that where otter numbers have recovered because of a ban on hunting with dogs, they have re-claimed their natural aquatic territory and have moved the mink out, and that therefore mink numbers have fallen? That ban has been much more effective than hunting with dogs.