Results 1-8 of 8 for hunting speaker:David Heathcoat-Amory

Bills Presented: Bill of Rights (21 Jul 2009)

David Heathcoat-Amory: The Leader of the Opposition has announced a quango hunt. Has my hon. Friend noticed that the sections of the Bill that are largely untouched are the schedules setting out Crown appointments, pensions and pay with regard to the new quango? Has he any idea of the additional costs to the public purse? If it turns out that the new commissioner's duties can be adequately undertaken by the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Fallen Stock (18 Nov 2004)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: What additional facilities are planned for the disposal of fallen stock in the event of a hunting ban.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Fallen Stock (18 Nov 2004)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: Is the Minister aware that the Mendip farmers hunt recently opened a facility, built to Ministry specifications, to take fallen stock from the whole Mendip area that will be jeopardised if hunting is banned? Will he state clearly whether rendering and incineration capacity is adequate to cope with the national fallen stock collection service, which is much delayed but is coming into effect...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Cormorant Predation (20 May 2004)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...is here defending and promoting the interests of those who like dragging fish around in the water and pulling them out by sharp hooks before putting them back, while at the same time wishing to ban hunting with dogs. What are the Government and his Department doing to stamp out hypocrisy on these issues, both inside and outside this House?

Orders of the Day — Education and Industry (8 Dec 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...their own mess. The Queen's Speech is highly regulatory. The Government have still not lost the habit of trying to ban things—that is their first instinct. Trial by jury and tobacco advertising will be banned. Hunting will be banned if most Labour Members get their way. That Bill is in the Queen's Speech. As my hon. Friend the Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) pointed out,...

Orders of the Day — BSE Crisis (17 Feb 1997)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...(Mr. King) and I represent by the crass activities of Liberal Democrat-led Somerset county council, which spent many hundreds of thousands of pounds in a completely fruitless attempt to ban hunting on a narrow strip of common land on the Quantocks, thereby annoying all the farmers in my constituency, wasting a great deal of ratepayers' money and not even succeeding in the ban. All they...

Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill: Codes on Control of Pests (2 May 1990)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...self-interest in maintaining a wide diversity of species, including quarry species. It is interesting that people who are not normally well disposed towards field sports now acknowledge that stag hunting on Exmoor has probably led to the survival of red deer there, almost uniquely in England. Mr. Richard Course, who has been a Labour candidate and who was prominent in the League Against...

Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill: Codes on Control of Pests (2 May 1990)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...someone who has studied the matter and, up to now, held a contrary view. Mr. Course was firmly opposed to field sports in all forms, but it is now his opinion that, whereas the red deer have been hunted and shot almost to extinction in most other parts of England, they are thriving on Exmoor. He attributes that at least in part to the fact that those who hunt the red stag have a clear...