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Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Gambling Policy (26 Feb 2008)

John Greenway: I thank the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) for their support for the Responsibility in Gambling Trust. May I point out to the Secretary of State and the House that funding for the treatment of problem gambling has increased more than tenfold since the trust was formed six years ago? Last year, we launched the gambleaware website. We have a...

Orders of the Day: Compensation Bill [Lords] (8 Jun 2006)

John Greenway: ...likely it is that, for the good of them, of all of us and of their families, they have the chance to get back to work. So I welcome the addition of clause 2 and congratulate my noble Friend Lord Hunt of Wirral and his colleagues in the other place on introducing it. The regulation of claims managers is a long overdue measure. Some right hon. and hon. Members have concerns, as I do, at the...

Hunting Act 2004 (11 Jan 2005)

Mr John Greenway: The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) is right in one thing: there have been two voices from the Government. First, there was a Bill that would have allowed hunting to continue under licence, and then there was a Government Bill to ban all hunting. That is what has exasperated my constituents. Given that they will lose their livelihood through this wretched measure,...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr John Greenway: ...to the issue of the procedure motion. It is because I take fundamental objection to elements of the motion that I have sought to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Those in favour of a ban on hunting seem to think that this House has discharged all its obligations by voting in favour of a total ban. The fact that some of us profoundly disagree with that is irrelevant to my point, because...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr John Greenway: ...;that he accepts that the Bill is deficient. Why then should we rely on an unelected Chamber to change the Bill? We should endeavour to change it ourselves. I have tried to keep off the subject of hunting and talk purely about the motion and the precedent that will be set if we approve it. I happen to have in my constituency many people whose livelihoods and way of life will be wrecked if...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr John Greenway: ...his work on the measure during his years in this place. I conclude by again urging the House to think carefully about accepting the motion. Members must divorce it in their mind from the issue of hunting and consider only that if they support the motion they will be using a sledgehammer to crush minority interests and that, next time, they may be on its receiving end.

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr John Greenway: The Bill that the Minister introduced to Parliament last year did at least provide the opportunity for hunting with dogs to continue in upland areas such as the North York Moors national park. Why has he changed his mind, given that he thought that that was so important? It cannot simply be that a majority of his Back Benchers think that it is wrong, because he pleaded with them to go ahead...

Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill (8 Jan 2004)

Mr John Greenway: ...rights are being sold. If we end up, God forbid, with each race course having to sell its own data, there will not be 59 race courses within five years of that event taking place, and it will be national hunt courses in the north of Britain, particularly in Scotland, that will suffer. I cannot believe for one moment that anyone in racing or bookmaking could possibly want that to happen. On...

Hunting Bill (27 Feb 2001)

Mr John Greenway: Will not another major practical effect of the Bill be to ban hunting with dogs in the national parks, whereas the Burns report made it clear that that could not be done without the use of dogs? How can the Minister ask us to accept a Bill on the basis that the Government have won the argument, when they have ignored the conclusion of their own Burns report?

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Appointment of Commissioner. (4 May 1999)

Mr John Greenway: ...underpins significantly the operational independence of the chief officer of police—in this case, the commissioner or his deputy. It also minimises the risk of any politically motivated witch hunt against such a senior officer. The events of the past few weeks graphically illustrate the importance of ensuring that the structure is as it appears in the Bill. It also makes sense to...

New clause 1: Fox CONTROL IN NATIONAL PARKS (6 Mar 1998)

Mr John Greenway: ...for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) said, it may progress to the other place. The issues raised in the new clauses demonstrate the impracticality of the Bill's central objective to ban all hunting with dogs. It is open to question whether the measures proposed in the new clauses would meet all the obvious and real concerns, but clearly the Bill would be better if at least some of...

New clause 1: Fox CONTROL IN NATIONAL PARKS (6 Mar 1998)

Mr John Greenway: My hon. Friend makes his own point. My point is that new clause 19 seeks to allow owners and occupiers of land to require the hunt to kill the fox rather than permitting it to be shot. That is the fundamental difference. There is great merit in the proposal by my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Baldry), because the owners and occupiers of land would be responsible for the death or...

New clause 1: Fox CONTROL IN NATIONAL PARKS (6 Mar 1998)

Mr John Greenway: My right hon. Friend makes a telling point. I have studied the matter, and I am simply giving my own interpretation. It seems to me that clause 3 would allow stag hunting to continue in that it is conventional that while the dogs—

New clause 1: Fox CONTROL IN NATIONAL PARKS (6 Mar 1998)

Mr John Greenway: We have now clearly heard the Government's view that clause 3 would allow the hunting of stags. The central point at issue is that stags are shot after having been located by dogs—I do not have stag hunting in my constituency—whereas in fox hunting, rather the fox being shot, it is normal for the hounds to kill the fox. The point that I am dealing with is the impracticality of...

Defence Industry (3 Dec 1997)

Mr John Greenway: ...do not know. I do not make that allegation. I simply want to say this to the Under-Secretary of State for Defence. Over the past year or so, the armed forces have taken delivery through FRA Serco Hunting of 25 Firefly 260 aircraft. They fly 90 sorties a day through the joint elementary flight training scheme and we understand that the aircraft is proving extremely reliable and an...

Prayers: Sport Hunting (29 Oct 1997)

Mr John Greenway: ...speech from the Dispatch Box—I never had the opportunity to make one from the Government Bench, but one lives in hope and ambition—I find that we are addressing the emotive issue of fox hunting. It is especially ironic because on the first occasion when I took part in a live broadcast during the 1987 general election, I participated in a Tyne Tees Television question time that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Military Equipment (28 Nov 1995)

Mr John Greenway: Does my hon. Friend agree that the contractorisation provided by Hunting Engineering for the supply and maintenance of flight training aircraft has been extremely successful? Can he say when the contract for the extension of the joint elementary flight training scheme will be concluded? When does he expect to announce the outcome of his review into the replacement of Bulldog?

Clause 60: Purposes of National Parks (28 Jun 1995)

Mr John Greenway: ...is certainly the case in my constituency in north Yorkshire. Their working life is not understood. I say to the hon. Member for Cambridge (Mrs. Campbell) that, when people talk about banning fox-hunting, they do not understand that, for example, the Saltersgate and Farndale hunts probably go out only two or three times a year and on foot, and that they involve not the rich, landed gentry...

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

Mr John Greenway: My right hon. Friend has made an extremely valid point. Another point that has not been made thus far in the debate is that most of the hunting on the North Yorkshire moors is done on foot. Were we not to control the fox population by that method, since no other method is viable, the farmers in that part of the country would suffer serious consequences.