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Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]: Schedule 7 — Acts of the Assembly (30 Jan 2006)

Peter Hain: ...of the devolution settlement. He cannot just toss off in the middle of a speech a series of powers for devolution, ranging from energy, the police, probation, the Prison Service, public holidays, hunting with dogs, broadcasting, the generation, transmission and supply of electricity, oil and gas and Sunday trading, to licensing the sale and supply of alcohol.

Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]: Schedule 7 — Acts of the Assembly (30 Jan 2006)

Peter Hain: ...orders and arrangements and there will be machinery, under the Bill, to take such matters forward if the whole of Parliament desires it. I shall resist the temptation to get into arguments about hunting with dogs or about public holidays, although in respect of the request for a public holiday on St. David's day there was never a bid from the Assembly for legislation and there was never...

Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill (9 Jan 2006)

Peter Hain: ...) Bill, and all but two of them could have been accommodated under the new streamlined process provided for in this Bill. The exceptions are the demands for the Assembly to have the power to ban hunting and to have control over shop opening times. An additional one may be the request for St. David's day to be a bank holiday. Those could not be delivered under the Order-in-Council process,...

Business of the House (24 Feb 2005)

Mr Peter Hain: I completely endorse my hon. Friend's point. I think that the electorate will want to maintain a ban on cruelty to animals and will not want to vote Conservative for the Hunting Act to be overturned and cruelty to animals to become widespread again.

Business of the House (13 Jan 2005)

Mr Peter Hain: ...on the outcome of a policy. The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General advise Ministers who, as was the case with the Minister for Rural Affairs and Local Environmental Quality, who dealt with hunting and its ban, and the Foreign Secretary, who is responsible for matters relating to the Guantanamo Bay detainees, can come to the House to answer questions and make a statement. They are...

Business of the House (25 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: The situation affecting local police stations or resourcing has nothing to do with fox hunting, as the hon. Gentleman well knows. That question shows the obsession of Conservative Back Benchers with issues such as fox hunting, instead of concentrating on making Britain a much more secure and safe place in which to live. I hope that he and the Conservatives will back all the Government's...

Sessional Orders and Resolutions (3 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...am sure that my hon. Friend would not defend this example—in fact, I know he would criticise it. My hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian (Anne Picking) tried to enter the House during the hunting demonstration and was virtually beaten up. We have to move forward in dealing with such problems. The issue of the loudhailer is one small part of a much wider picture and we really must...

Sessional Orders and Resolutions (3 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...that we have experienced recently when access to the House has been blocked. The individual whom we have discussed does not pose such a threat but all sorts of demonstrations, including those on hunting and Iraq, have, for the first time in my experience, blocked access to the House. That is the problem and the measures are primarily designed to deal with that.

Business of the House (28 Oct 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: I am completely foxed by that question. I hope that there will be no hunting in the Palace of Westminster and that Opposition Members who are great huntsmen will not encourage that practice. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman did not have the grace to thank the Government for our great generosity in providing an extra half-day of Opposition time on Thursday 11 November in return for a...

Business of the House (28 Oct 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: .... It is one thing to put a forceful argument or stage a protest to make one's point—I have done that in the past on apartheid and other issues, and I defend the right of the supporters of hunting to demonstrate—but it is another to engage in violence, thuggery and personal attacks on Members of Parliament, Ministers or otherwise, as happened to me last night. It would be in the...

Business of the House (14 Oct 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: We have Transport questions on Tuesday and the hon. Gentleman can put his point to the Secretary of State. I do not accept that we came back in September only to debate fox hunting because we debated several important pieces of legislation during those two weeks. Job losses in manufacturing, including those in the midlands, are important, but the fact is that under the Tories, nearly a...

Business of the House (16 Sep 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: As the hon. Gentleman knows, under the last Conservative Government, some Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster, such as Lord Hunt, were paid the full Cabinet salary, because they were not party chairmen. The Labour party chairman, my right hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield (Mr. McCartney), is being paid by the Labour party, because his duties are political in respect of his party post,...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...debate on higher education, followed by a debate on pensions. Both debates will arise on motions in the name of the Liberal Democrats. Wednesday 15 September—Procedure motion relating to the Hunting Bill, followed by proceedings on the Hunting Bill—[Hon. Members: "Hear, hear"]. I think it would assist the House if I gave notice that we will be sitting later than usual in order...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...address the issue of postal voting as well as other issues, and the hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to put his questions to him then. I accept that there are differing emotions on hunting; there is no question about that. Within the hon. Gentleman's own party there were Members who voted for the ban on hunting, and the same applied on the Labour Benches. On the question whether...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...over that of the RSPCA. Secondly—I should have thought that the House would want to understand this reason and support it—the delay in the commencement will give those involved in hunting time to cease the activities that are to be banned and to refocus any business activities on alternatives, such as drag hunting, or finding alternative employment. For example, the horse...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...I can give him that assurance. I always admire the way in which the hon. Gentleman upholds the sovereignty of the House. What I am doing in the role of the Leader of the House by bringing back the Hunting Bill next Wednesday is precisely that. To do otherwise would be a denial of the sovereignty of the House and the decision of the House. It is not a question of giving the matter priority...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...law and the banning of that inhumane sport. I hope that he supports the Government's position of seeking to allow a reasonable interval between Royal Assent and commencement, so those involved in hunting can adjust their lifestyles and the dogs can be re-homed and dispersed humanely. It would be wrong if an inhumane sport were followed by the hounds involved being dealt with inhumanely,...

Business of the House (8 Jul 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...any more than Government Ministers like me or . . . the Prime Minister. But overall they do a fantastic job so I am saying in advance that this Government will not be a party to any kind of witch hunt against anybody"— especially the intelligence services. That is the point that I am making. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will defend the intelligence services, and the work that they...

Business of the House (8 Jul 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...Parliament. [Hon. Members: "Name them."] No, I will not be led further down that road. On the picture in the Tea Room, I have had it reliably whispered in my ear that it is of a steeplechase, not a hunt, and that it has been there for three years. It is nothing to do with the issues that the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Mr. Tyler) raises, but hunting is a matter that has been raised...

Business of the House (8 Jul 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...the Prime Minister's views on the matter. Just as I am on the same side of the football pitch as my hon. Friend, as a Chelsea supporter, so, too, I am on the same side as him in the argument about hunting.