Results 1-10 of 10 for hunting speaker:Frank Field

Business of the House (11 Jan 2007)

Frank Field: ...of the House that, since he and I have been Members of the House, the Animal Procedures Committee has approved 90 million experiments on animals? While the Government have found 250 hours to debate hunting with dogs, they have not yet been able to find a moment to debate one of the Committee's reports. Given that the Government have a genuine concern for the welfare of animals, may I ask...

Child Support Agency (9 Feb 2006)

Frank Field: ...be paying from 2003. My guess is that his staff have told him that it is impossible to do much to transfer those cases to the new computer. To test whether that advice is correct, will he and Lord Hunt—the Minister in charge of the CSA—spend a day in the office with staff and see whether, in fact, they can start to transfer those cases to the new system?

Mersey Tunnels Bill: Schedule 1 — Amendment of the 1980 Act: Levying, Revision and Application of Tolls (29 Oct 2003)

Mr Frank Field: My hon. Friend may recall that a previous Member for Wirral, West, who is now in the other place—Lord Hunt—was involved in the Bill through which the forerunner of Merseytravel tried to abolish the subsidy of the ferries. It had to give up in the end, having failed to win the measure. When the Bill leaves this House today, it goes to the other Chamber, where presumably Lord Hunt...

House of Commons (Reserved Matters) (28 Jun 2000)

Mr Frank Field: ...issues that are beginning to appear on the radar screen, and to try to deal with them so that we do not sour the nature of our politics. Who would have thought that, already, the issue of fox hunting would be raised within the framework of whether Members of Parliament for Scottish seats, whose own Parliament will decide the issue for Scotland, should be able to vote in this House on fox...

Supplementary Estimates, 1995–96: Department of Social Security (11 Mar 1996)

Mr Frank Field: ...example concerns a person who came to my surgery on Friday. He was not my constituent, but the constituent of my right hon. Friend—I rightly call him that—the Member for Wirral, West (Mr. Hunt). The constituent had been in employment all his life. He had one short period of self-employment because he lost his job, although he is now again working for an employer. He phoned the...

Vsel (23 May 1995)

Mr Frank Field: ...requirements, is the President of the Board of Trade aware that, when the Government announced their privatisation proposals, his Cabinet colleague, the right hon. Member for Wirral, West (Mr. Hunt), and I tried to persuade GEC to break up the Government's preferred bidding so that it could buy the Cammell Laird yard? Is the President of the Board of Trade aware of our concerns about the...

Prayers: "Options for Change" (Transitional Arrangements) (16 Jul 1992)

Mr Frank Field: ...costs to be spread across both orders, whereas other yards were being allowed to submit a single order for both boats. I relayed this information to the right hon. Member for Wirral, West (Mr. Hunt), who relayed it to the man who is now President of the Board of Trade, who, in turn insisted in Cabinet that the then Prime Minister should not have her way and award the order to Swan Hunter:...

Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill: Up-Rating Orders (20 Apr 1983)

Mr Frank Field: I shall be brief, Mr. Weatherill. I am pleased to see that the hon. Member for Wirral (Mr. Hunt) is present. In the Wirral, Members of different parties work closely together in trying to protect the interests of those whom we represent. The hon. Member was not present earlier when the Minister for Social Security made it plain that, although it is not described as such, the Bill is a...

Merseyside (Social Security Offices) (28 Mar 1983)

Mr Frank Field: ...the number of claimants. The report calculates that that ratio has declined by about 35 per cent. But, taking the two offices which serve my constituency and that of the hon. Member for Wirral (Mr. Hunt), one sees declines of 32 per cent. in the Birkenhead, north office and of about 41 per cent. in the Birkenhead, south office. So we have an increase in the work load and a deterioration in...

Orders of the Day — Paul Brown (30 Nov 1979)

Mr Frank Field: ...Wirral is adequate and adequately trained to prevent another disaster from occurring such as the one that befell Paul Brown? Before concluding and before allowing the hon. Member for Wirral (Mr. Hunt) to intervene, I make a number of pleas to the Minister. I ask him to call a public inquiry to investigate the circumstances following the death of Paul Brown. At the very least I ask him to...