Results 1-20 of 43 for hunting speaker:Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Democratic Republic of Congo (19 Apr 2006)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...Mr. Hancock, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Falkirk (Mr. Joyce) on having raised a very important debate. The moving speeches made by my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) and the hon. Members for Wakefield (Mary Creagh) and for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) have enabled us to understand the dramatic and traumatic effect that the horrendous...

Agriculture (South-West) (1 Feb 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: keep the paperwork simple and keep it to the minimum commensurate with dealing with fraud. I also want to deal with the whole business of the ban on hunting with hounds from 19 February, and the issue of cattle disposal. In certain areas of the country, that will be a real problem. We want to encourage farmers to take part in the national cattle...

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: The accusation by the hon. Member for Hull, North (Mr. McNamara) shows that, as usual, Labour Members are ignorant of the facts of hunting. Often the dwellings that house hunt employees are not owned by wealthy landowners but by the hunt itself, which if it is not hunting will have no income and will have no option but to sell its assets. Will the hon. Member for St. Ives (Andrew George)...

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: A large number of my constituents participate in hunting. All of them, especially those who will lose their jobs if a banning Bill is passed, ask for fairness and for the Minister to be a man of principle. The Minister went through those Portcullis House hearings, commissioned the Burns inquiry and concluded that a licensing Bill would be the best way forward. In his press release of 11...

Public Bill Committee: Gambling Bill: Clause 1 - The licensing objectives (9 Nov 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Having heard what the hon. Gentleman has just said, and having for years listened to him making speeches about how we wants to ban hunting, I am amazed that he is such a liberaliser on this issue. Does he not accept that he could have made precisely the same speech in debates on the Licensing Bill, and that we know that that Bill has led to positive harm with binge drinking? We must be very...

Correction (19 Oct 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: My hon. Friend is right. The hon. Member for Worcester went out hunting once and thinks he knows all about it. He quoted from his local newspaper, saying that the summer ride of the Warwickshire hunt would be an alternative to fox hunting. That shows how little he knows about fox hunting. For years, most hunts have used these summer rides as a means of raising money, or as an activity at a...

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I am pleased to catch your eye in this debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have sat here all afternoon, and I have listened to quite a lot of nonsense. As with previous hunting debates, there is a lot of ill-informed comment by Members, particularly Labour Members, who think that they know something about hunting when they actually know very little, and I want to come to one or two of those points....

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...on that matter. A number of other points were made about the timing. The Minister is right: one of the reasons why the Government are doing this is to try to appear reasonable, but whether hunting is banned tomorrow or in 18 months' time makes no difference whatsoever to my constituents. They will protest in every possible way that they can, and, provided that it is lawful, I will support...

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...that, so he should know what the cost would be. He should not reiterate his earlier nonsense that the Association of Chief Police Officers thinks that it will cost no more than policing the anti-hunt protests at present, but he should ask the chief constable of Gloucestershire because I am absolutely certain that he would receive a different answer.

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...citing ACPO earlier. Time alone will tell whether the assessment is right or wrong. I wish to address one or two practical issues in the short time available to me. Some Labour Members have been hunting once or twice and think that they know everything about it, and several spoke about the future of hounds. I have hunted all my life and know a thing or two about hounds. A great deal of...

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

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I draw the House's attention to the serious point made by the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith). I believe that there are more hunts in my constituency than in any other. A substantial number of jobs will be lost in my area and elsewhere. This Bill will put people out of work, and other people will lose their property. Does the Minister consider it right that it offers no...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Fallen Stock Directive (17 Jul 2003)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Is the Minister aware that hunts provide a very considerable service in dealing with fallen stock, and that if the Government are determined to go ahead with banning hunting, a real animal welfare issue will arise? For example, it is very difficult to get animals with broken legs to a slaughterhouse; often, they have to be transported great distances and endure considerable suffering. Will...

Hunting Bill: New Clause 1 — Compensation (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...July, in which Alastair McWhirter, whom the Minister has cited and prayed in aid, pleads for practical laws? The article states that police chiefs had hoped that MPs would back Tony Blair and allow hunting under licence. Now they fear that there will be "widespread flouting" of the new law and that they will have "little power" to prevent it. Will the Minister comment on that comment?

Hunting Bill: New Clause 13 — Registered Hunting: Absolute Bans: Deer, Hares, Foxes and Terrierwork (30 Jun 2003)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: If hunting is banned, people who have never shot at a fox before will go out with their shotguns, with inadequate shot, and start shooting at foxes, with the net result that there is likely to be wounding. Those people will be so exasperated that they will have to go out and use such weapons.

Hunting Bill: New Clause 13 — Registered Hunting: Absolute Bans: Deer, Hares, Foxes and Terrierwork (30 Jun 2003)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...be drafted on the basis of cruelty and utility tests and on the basis of proper scientific knowledge. Can he therefore now give us a clear answer? What is the scientific basis for banning autumn hunting? If he cannot give us that basis, we will have to conclude that he is merely pandering to the wishes of those behind him, which is what we have suspected all along.

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...I think that that was the most prejudiced and ignorant speech I have heard in my 10 years as a Member of Parliament. The House is at its worst when we debate this subject. I have been involved in hunting all my life, and I have heard so much ignorance this evening that it is unbelievable. I feel sorry for the Minister. Whatever his personal views, he has approached the subject with...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...us be under no illusion—the Bill will license cruelty. I refer to the business of the tribunals, which is unfair. Under the tribunal process, the opponents of the licence for an individual hunt will be allowed to appeal and re-appeal, yet the applicant for a licence may not reapply on the same grounds until at least six months have passed. I would maintain that that is unfair and...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: Will the Minister explain why he has unfairly singled out hare coursing and stag hunting? Will he confirm that he has accepted that both stag hunting and hare coursing meet some of the tests of utility and cruelty? Will he also confirm what he said to stag hunters this morning, namely, that he had incontrovertible evidence that stag hunting is cruel?

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) that, in many ways, the debate is not particularly well informed. At the outset, I must declare my interest as a farmer who has hunted almost every season since the age of six and, I think, the only Member of the House to have ridden winners in point-to-points and under national hunt rules. So, I have a role to play in...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting (10 Dec 2001)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will publish the results of her consultation on the permit conditions to allow resumption of hunting with hounds.