Results 1-18 of 18 for hunting speaker:Ian Gibson

Opposition Day — [16th Allotted Day]: Stroke Services (11 Jul 2007)

Ian Gibson: ...a lot of things that I should not have done; I say that now that I know first-hand what a stroke can look and feel like. After a hectic, busy week, in which I remember voting in the House on fox hunting—for the 20th time or something like that—I dashed off to Tel Aviv. I travelled overnight and had no sleep, and then I found myself out in Gaza with my right hon. Friend the...

Reach (9 Sep 2004)

Dr Ian Gibson: I apologise; I get muddled with the hunting with dogs debate—after all this time.

Education for 14 to 19-year-olds (13 Feb 2003)

Dr Ian Gibson: Of course, we cannot deny that. I noticed this week in the debates on hunting, for example, that at least two and a half days were spent on the science of hunting deer, and on whether the experimental work that had been done on behaviour was bona fide. It is just as important for a politician to have an understanding of that as it is for a five-year-old, a 12-year-old or a 15-year-old....

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Dr Ian Gibson: In the past few years, the paper by Professor Bateson and Dr. Bradshaw—entitled "Physiological effects of hunting red deer"—has been a significant feature in debates in this place, in Committee and elsewhere on hunting with dogs. Following its publication, vitriolic attacks were made on Professor Bateson. Accusations were made concerning his competence, integrity and powers of...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...However, there was a major difference between the two studies in terms of interpreting results. The authors of the latter study disagreed with Bateson, maintaining that the physiological effects of hunting are merely those of exercise, with suffering restricted to perhaps the last 20 minutes before the kill. They argue that deer are well-adapted to being hunted by hounds. That is a narrow...

Orders of the Day — Human Reproductive Cloning Bill[Lords] (29 Nov 2001)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...8212;of course they did, it is in the nature of science to do so—"Would it work in human beings?" That is what science is all about. Current Nobel prize winners in Britain, Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt, asked, "If we worked in a lower organism like yeast, would that have any implications for our knowledge of cancer?" No wonder they received a Nobel prize. That seeking after an...

Breast Cancer Strategy (23 Oct 2001)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...Fund and the Cancer Research Campaign would set aside their rivalries and merge. In a Select Committee sitting, I challenged my friend Sir Paul Nurse—a Nobel prize winner, along with Tim Hunt and Leland Hartwell, who is an old friend from the university of Washington in Seattle. I never thought that I would get the answer from him that Omo and Daz will never mix. In fact, Omo and Daz...

Public Bill Committee: National Lottery (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 - Amendment of National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (25 Apr 2001)

Dr Ian Gibson: It is a pleasure to serve under your tutelage and chairmanship again, Mr. Wells. We joined with each other during the original debate on hunting with dogs, and enjoyed that immensely. I also pay a compliment to Members from all parties who are present, many from East Anglia and Norfolk, for coming along to support the Bill. The cross-party support has been very important, not just to me in...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Dr Ian Gibson: Will the hon. Gentleman elaborate on that with reference to Professor Patrick Bateson's work on stags and deer hunting? That is world-class research. If Bateson had been able to acquire other grants, he would have studied other quarried species as well. The resources needed to investigate all quarry are not always available, in contrast to the position with, for example, biomedical research.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Dr Ian Gibson: Will the hon. Gentleman quote that evidence in light of the Burns report, which brought the antagonists together and agreed a joint statement that the last 20 minutes of stag hunting were indeed cruel?

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...the scientific work carried out by Professor David Macdonald of Oxford university on the population management of quarry and the work of Professor Patrick Bateson of Cambridge university on stag hunting. In both cases, and in work with people who have disagreed with them in the past, the professors state that science itself should never be—and, in this case, has not been—the...

Prayers: Embryology (17 Nov 2000)

Dr Ian Gibson: Would the hon. Gentleman care to say how his constituents' letters influenced him in voting on the Stem Cell Research Bill or in the hunting debate?

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

Dr Ian Gibson: ...when they challenge the accepted wisdom, and when they confirm what everyone says they knew anyway. That has been no less true where scientists have attempted to add some rational debate to sport hunting. On 29 October, an Adjournment debate on the matter documented some of science's arguments, and we have heard some more today. Letters and individual scientists—none of whom has, to...

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

Dr Ian Gibson: ...book that was written by MacDonald on foxes. Their scientific studies on the socio-economic infrastructure of rural communities is second to none in terms of the analysis of the effects of hunting on foxes. Their conclusion is that fox hunting is not even sufficient to protect game birds, and that other methods will be necessary. They conclude: Fox hunting is a sport and certainly not a...

Prayers: Sport Hunting (29 Oct 1997)

Dr Ian Gibson: The purpose of my speech is not to detract from the Second Reading on 28 November of the Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill to be presented by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster): quite the opposite. I first began to think about the problems of sport hunting when I was taken by an Anglia Television crew to a fox hunt in Essex last Christmas. I found the whole day rather...

Prayers: Sport Hunting (29 Oct 1997)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...for behavioural effects and effects on the brains of the deer. Certainly there are muscular effects, in that the deer become exhausted when running. When reading the vast body of literature about hunting—we must admit that there is a sporting element in all such activity, whether it be fox hunting, hare coursing or red deer hunting—I have been struck by the quasi-scientific...

Prayers: Sport Hunting (29 Oct 1997)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...the opposite, and I would have guessed that the hon. Gentleman would too. There is clearly argument among farmers. That is why I think that conservation issues will be based on factors other than hunting. MacDonald made clear points about conservation issues. Issues of cruelty and the attendant moral questions are difficult to measure, but are of concern to many people. Bateson has...

Prayers: Sport Hunting (29 Oct 1997)

Dr Ian Gibson: ...to make the comparison. No one is saying that all the research that could be done has been done. Because of the scientific movements and discoveries that have been made, many aspects of hunting could disappear. The sport might even be conducted without the involvement of a live animal. There is a thought. Other viable substitutes have been suggested. All that it would take is zeal and...