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Hunting Act 2004 (11 Jan 2005)

Ms Kate Hoey: ...on the legislation have done. Does he agree that in a sense whatever the court or Parliament may say is irrelevant, as the Act as currently constituted is unworkable and will not bring an end to hunting?

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (18 Nov 2004)

Ms Kate Hoey: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that given the unprecedented nature of the use of the Parliament Act—the majority of Parliament as a whole has voted not to ban hunting in this way—there should be a vote of this House to make Members formally agree to Mr. Speaker using that Act?

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Ms Kate Hoey: ...will uphold liberty and freedom. Since 1997, the Government have claimed to act as the honest broker. My right hon. Friend the Minister has himself pretended to be the honest broker on the issue of hunting. However, the reintroduction of this banning Bill, and the way in which it has been done, makes it clear that that is not the case. The Government promised the country that legislation...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Ms Kate Hoey: ...Bill of a Labour Government who propose to fly in the face of principle and the evidence. Two inquiries have been held, at vast public expense, and neither produced any evidence to justify a ban on hunting. A regulatory Bill was introduced, which my right hon. Friend the Minister said was based on principle and evidence. No fair or open-minded person could conclude that the evidence exists...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Ms Kate Hoey: ...who will lose their livelihood and their way of life, because of a small number—although, yes, there will be a large vote tonight—of Labour Back Benchers who have a bigoted attitude to hunting and are determined to push the measure through.

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Ms Kate Hoey: To be clear, for the benefit of Liberal Democrat supporters all over the country, is it the official Liberal Democrat view that the Parliament Act should be used to force through a ban on hunting?

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Hare Coursing (11 Dec 2003)

Ms Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will place in the Library a copy of all the evidence and advice given to him by his Department on the issue of the ban on hare-hunting.

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

Ms Kate Hoey: The Minister said that compensation was provided for the fur industry because it was being ended. Can he explain to the House what part of the hunting industry is left?

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

Ms Kate Hoey: As there seems to be so much ignorance in certain parts of the House about dogs that hunt, would it not be useful for some of the Members who have been sitting here all evening to go across to the green and talk to the many families and owners of hunting dogs there? They might learn just a bit about what hunting dogs do.

Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4) (1 Jul 2003)

Ms Kate Hoey: I know that a day is a long time in politics, but my right hon. Friend said last night that he could not, in all conscience, vote for the full ban on hunting. How can he now, as a Minister, so wholeheartedly ask people to go into Committee and support the Bill?

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

Ms Kate Hoey: ...Federation of Badger Groups than perhaps the contents of an independent analysis which I have not read, or the Minister. I know that my hon. Friend has a long-standing view and wants to ban fox hunting. Presumably he will be in a position this evening to urge his right hon. and hon. Friends to vote for his new clause, although I know that he would like to be arguing that they should vote...

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

Ms Kate Hoey: ...who has raised this issue with me. I want to put the debate in context: it is not a priority issue for people in my constituency. That is not to say that some of my constituents do not want to ban hunting, but it certainly does not warrant the time that we have spent on it over the past five years. It is however deplorable that if we are to discuss the Bill, we have so little time in which...

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

Ms Kate Hoey: The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The Bill is inconsistent. Why is it not okay to hunt hares when it is okay to hunt rabbits? That shows that the Bill has been devised by people who take an attitude of zealotry towards those who hunt. They are opposed to hunting, and they are not prepared to listen. I want to pay tribute to the hundreds of women who spent last night and all day in...

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

Ms Kate Hoey: ..., but those concepts have been left out of the utility test, so it is not a real utility test at all. Let me talk about some of the other methods that we are expected to go along with because fox hunting is so cruel. Poison baits—

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

Ms Kate Hoey: ...are traumatic for the people concerned. However, I am absolutely clear that the middle way group licensing proposals and the regulation that already exists could be used to ensure that the hunts involved in such incidents have to make reparations and ensure that it does not happen again. That is not a reason to ban hunting. Accidents happen in every activity. To return to poison baits,...

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

Ms Kate Hoey: ...took advantage of it, perhaps I can talk to them about it. However, it cannot be true that live cage traps are humane for use on foxes and mink but inhumane for use on badgers. The alternatives to hunting—

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

Ms Kate Hoey: I will give way to the Minister in my own time. People who are seriously concerned about animal welfare and cruelty cannot possibly believe that any of the alternatives to hunting are better than what is happening at the moment.

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

Ms Kate Hoey: ...danger of people demanding that shooting be stopped, but is not the policy of the International Fund for Animal Welfare and of members of the League Against Cruel Sports that once they get their hunting ban, the next thing will be a ban on shooting, and then fishing?

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

Ms Kate Hoey: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that what is incontrovertible is the fact that if deer hunting is banned, within a very short time there will not be a deer left on Exmoor?

Hunting with Dogs (3 Dec 2002)

Ms Kate Hoey: ...for him. I welcome the fact that he has clearly changed his mind to accept what some of us—at least one or two of us—on this side of the House have said about a complete ban on hunting being wrong and unacceptable. Will he clarify this for me: if the Bill that he is introducing is a Government Bill, on which there will be a free vote, how can he possibly allow the Parliament...