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Business of the House: Clause 3 — Applications (16 Jul 2008) has video

Edward Garnier: ...as soon as possible. Amendment No. 1 provides us with an object lesson of what happens when one legislates without proper care and with a great deal of speed but without much consideration. Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, the Minister in the other place, spent about four of the five minutes of his speech apologising when he explained why the amendment was introduced at the last moment. He was...

Hunting Act 2004 (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: I agree with the Minister this far: about the only clear part of the Hunting Act is the clause on its implementation date. Does not he think it regrettable that the Attorney-General and No. 10 allowed themselves to be quoted in the media discussing the implementation question? Would not it have been better to leave that to private discussions between the respective lawyers and the courts? Did...

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

Mr Edward Garnier: ...time to time. Fair enough. May he enjoy his searchlight fame in the circus and the big tent that he so proudly claims to inhabit. However, it is important that the House realises, before we ban hunting tonight, if that is what the House decides to do, that it has nothing whatever to do with the merits of the issue that we ought to be discussing. The discussion that we are having tonight...

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

Mr Edward Garnier: The supporters of a ban on hunting should be all the more keen to allow the licensing system to come into force because the Government's Bill, as it used to be, provided for the expenditure of public money to allow so-called animal welfare groups to argue their case. It did not, of course, allow for public money to be used by those who were asking for the licence to hunt.

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Edward Garnier: As someone who has served on every Standing Committee to consider hunting Bills since 1992—when I was first elected—I do not think that I am going to persuade the Leader of the House to change his mind about the procedures that he wishes to adopt next week. May I follow the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor) by asking a question about the new Chancellor of...

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

Mr Edward Garnier: I am not clear whether the Minister objects to new clause 1 in principle and believes that no compensation should be paid in any circumstances to anyone who suffers a loss through the ban on hunting or whether the argument is Treasury driven, and based on the fact that the number of people and therefore the amount of money is undefinable. On which side of the see-saw does the Minister sit?

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...party's link man with the shooting world? His name appears here because he was probably the fellow who was used to persuade the shooting fraternity by saying, ''Don't worry boys. We will stuff hunting and all things to do with it, but we will not stuff shooting.'' However, now that we have seen what the poor fellow has come up with, I do not think that the shooting world can be at all...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: New clause 8 - Compensation (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...of taxes or other contributions or penalties.'' That second paragraph of article 1 of protocol 1 does not enable states simply to confiscate things from citizens without compensation. A ban on hunting will interfere with the rights of landowners who participate in hunts over their land, or who give the hunt passage over their land, to use their land as they see fit. To that extent, it...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...and deals with circumstances that will circumscribe the use of dogs in the rescue of wild mammals. Paragraph (7)(2) introduces a test of subjectivity. It says: ''The first condition is that the hunter reasonably believes that the wild mammal is or may be injured.'' No humane person who is interested in animal welfare would set about the task of rescuing an injured animal if they did not...

Points of Order (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...Members to come to the House tomorrow, expecting an exciting time, when they will have to wait until next Friday for that treat. May I take this opportunity to deal with an issue in relation to the Hunting Bill, which is currently back in Standing Committee? I do not want to open up the arguments about the merits or demerits of the Government's case on hunting, but to draw to the attention...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: Clause 1 - Hunting wild mammals with dogs (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...allow me two minutes to address the Committee. Process is important and we are losing sight of our job. Nothing will ever make the hon. Member for West Ham and I agree about the rights or wrongs of hunting. That is a given, and we can forget about that. However, as Members of Parliament, we ought to agree that the process that we are now engaged in is obscene. It is not the right way to...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...Government Benches thinking that the whole Bill would be changed fundamentally by 5.30 pm this afternoon. Even if I agreed wholeheartedly with what the hon. Gentleman said—if I wanted to see fox hunting banned for ever—I would not wish it to be done in such a way.

Public Bill Committee: Retirement Income Reform Bill (2 Jul 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: .... The Bill has all-party support and it achieved a majority of 101 in the Second Reading vote on 7 March. It therefore has the support of the House of Commons. The Government told us that the Hunting Bill had the support of the House and that it should not, therefore, be delayed on its way to the House of Lords. I ask the Committee to bear that in mind when we consider the Government's...

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

Mr Edward Garnier: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The long title of the Bill states "make provision about hunting wild mammals with dogs". It is not a debating point but inaccurate reporting of what the Bill is about for the Minister to say in answer to my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) that we are only talking about the subject that Ministers would like to talk...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: New clause 4 - Compensation (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...he, I share many of the values, experiences and concerns of which he spoke. I am grateful to the hon. Member for West Ham for recognising that despite the differences of opinion on the subject of hunting, there are some things that can draw us together. One of the subjects that should draw us together is legitimate compensation for those whose lives are being not just disturbed by the...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: New clause 4 - Compensation (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...the Minister to consider that in my constituency and particularly in the village in which I live, many of the people who work have jobs connected directly or indirectly with either farming or hunting. In the event that the Bill becomes law, their jobs will be abolished—one may say, ''Bad luck''—and they will migrate to other parts of the country where jobs are available. My...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 51 - Transitional arrangements (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...a likely administrative log jam. I disagree with the remedy of the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West, which is to cut off at 12 months the ability of those who have applied to register to hunt. I have a suspicion—nothing that I can base on evidence—that there will come a time when the registrar will be out of a job. The general theory behind the Bill is not, of...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 50 - Commencement (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...understand that the hon. Gentleman wants to bring clauses 6 and 7 into effect one month after the Act is passed, which would ban competitive coursing. However, it is unclear where the ban on hare hunting described in new clause 10 will be incorporated into the Bill, and whether it will come under an amended clause 7. He has got ahead of himself. We need to see the Bill in its final...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 45 - Interpretation (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...that a little farther away is a bitch on heat. They set off, guided by the scent of the bitch, but during their travels they become interested in the scent of quarry—an animal for which hunting is not permitted under the legislation. As the owner of the dogs, I may be considered to be in charge of them. Under road traffic legislation that deals with the control of a motor car while...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 45 - Interpretation (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...off on a frolic of their own and have gone in search of a bitch on heat. During the search, they are distracted by the scent of a hare, a fox or some other animal that the Bill makes it unlawful to hunt. As the owner of the dogs and as someone who may, under law, have charge of them—in the event, I could not care less one way or the other what they are doing—I may be charged...