Results 1-19 of 19 for hunting speaker:Paul Flynn

Opposition Day — [6th allotted day]: National Insurance Numbers and Illegal Immigrants (16 Jan 2008) has video

Paul Flynn: ...Government's very creditable record on dealing with pensioners. Is it not clear from the hon. Gentleman's remarks that he is denying us that opportunity in order to pursue a nasty, vindictive witch hunt against the Minister?

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting Act 2004 (23 Feb 2007)

Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the effect of the Hunting Act 2005 on (a) levels of rural employment, (b) the fox population, (c) sheep deaths caused by foxes and (d) the prosperity of rural areas.

Business of the House (24 Feb 2005)

Mr Paul Flynn: May we have a debate on early-day motion 750? [That this House hails the success of the ban of hunting with dogs; welcomes the demonstration by 184 hunts that the ban does not destroy jobs or traditional pageantry nor result in the destruction of horses or hounds; notes that the only loss is the gratuitous cruelty of the protracted chase of a small mammal bred for that purpose; congratulates...

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Hunting Act (21 Feb 2005)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners, what action the Church Commissioners have taken to ensure that their tenants comply with the Hunting Act 2004.

Business of the House (16 Dec 2004)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...Simon Hart, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, that his organisation would be ridiculed in parliament on the publication of a letter sent by the Masters of Fox Hounds Association to 800 hunt masters warning of the nationwide 'shortage of foxes' and urging landowners to breed more foxes to 'solve the problem'; and welcomes this further evidence that foxhunting is unconnected with...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Fox Numbers (9 Jul 2001)

Mr Paul Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what effect the cessation of fox hunting with dogs as the result of foot and mouth disease has had on the total number of foxes.

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Land Rents (12 Jun 2000)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...that it should be extended beyond the human race to the animal species? Could not the Church Commissioners devise a way to reward those tenants who have already banned the cruel activity of fox hunting on their lands?

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill (28 Nov 1997)

Mr Paul Flynn: I would tell Mr. Nicholson that he will not lose his job, because the number of jobs will increase if hunters turn to drag hunting. It is nonsense for Conservative Members to talk about 35,000 jobs being lost when the activity employs fewer than 1,000 people. If hunters turn to drag hunting, they can keep the pageantry, the horse riding and the dressing up in strange clothes. Everything can...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill (28 Nov 1997)

Mr Paul Flynn: I am not giving way again. Instead of having a live quarry, drag hunters have a trail laid by an intelligent human being. All they have to lose is their cruelty. The hon. Member for Romsey (Mr. Colvin), who was the hon. Member who intervened on me in the previous debate, said that there was a difference between hunting a live quarry and drag hunting. He said that having no live quarry was...

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Welfare (26 Jan 1995)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...crown and move on other fronts where sentient living creatures are treated as though they have no feelings and no nervous system? Will he respond to the campaigns on other animal abuse and stop hunting for sport and unnecessary experiments on animals?

Whaling (17 May 1993)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...the Secretary of State believe, however, that our position is undermined when Norway and Japan refer to us as "hypocrites" because we oppose the harvesting of whales for food while permitting the hunting of equally intelligent animals for sport? Would we not be in a far stronger position to show our compassion for all other species if we banned fox hunting in Britain?

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Rents (17 May 1993)

Mr Paul Flynn: Does that figure include a premium charged by the Church to allow its tenants to permit the tormenting of dumb animals on their land in the name of sport by allowing fox hunting and deer hunting? Is not the right hon. Gentleman embarrassed that at the international whaling conference and elsewhere, Britain has been criticised by Japan and Norway for allowing hunting on our land? Does not that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Land (1 Feb 1993)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...beautiful passages in Isaiah, chapter 11, and Hosea, chapter 2, on the kinship between human kind and the animal kingdom and then to reconsider their policy of allowing the barbaric cruelty of deer hunting, hare coursing and fox hunting on Church Commissioners' land, or is their Christian charity confined to one single species?

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Agricultural Property (17 Feb 1992)

Mr Paul Flynn: Does the commissioner accept that following the vote on Friday it is likely that within a short time there will be a total ban on fox hunting, stag hunting and hare coursing in Britain? Does he believe that the commissioners should lead by example in banning such barbarous activities on their land?

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Paul Flynn: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Can it be made clear that the Bill deals with specific matters and that there is no suggestion in it that we are attempting to ban the hunting of sea fish by dogs?

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...of the past 15 years against unemployment in my constituency—the closures in the steel industry and the rundown of the mining industry—I cannot remember either of the two local hunts appearing on demonstrations or taking any part in the arguments against unemployment. A key issue in the debate has been the odd contribution by the hon. Member for Romsey and Waterside (Mr....

Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (Wales) (12 Feb 1992)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...applies to Newport but not to Rhondda and many other constituencies in Wales. The Secretary of State has been told about this. I invite him to Rogerstone community centre and to the other areas paying the Hunt levy, which amounts to about £41 extra—and it is not due to additional council charges. It is due to decisions taken by the Secretary of State, who could have changed his...

Orders of the Day — Community Charge: Class Xvi, Vote 11 (30 Apr 1991)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...estates getting nothing. That has caused considerable puzzlement and resentment throughout the constituency. My local newspaper has carried many stories of people asking why on earth they should pay the £50 David Hunt levy, as it has become known, when prosperous areas down the road are paying nothing. To give an example, under the old rating system, two people in a five-bedroom...

Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Community Charge Rebate Scheme (29 Apr 1991)

Mr Paul Flynn: ...out to the Secretary of State that since he has been so generous in confessing that the presented demented system of reliefs in Wales is his brainchild, the system has become known as the "David Hunt levy". Will he give a guarantee that in the unlikely event that he is still in office in a year's time, my constituents in Bassaleg, Rhiwderin, Rogerstone, Allt-yr-yn and Caerleon, who now pay...