Results 1-20 of 67 for hunting speaker:Douglas Hogg

Public Bill Committee: Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill: Clause 1 (12 Dec 2006)

Douglas Hogg: ...he help the Committee in the following way? He would accept, I believe, that the Conservative spokesmen in the Commons and in the Lords—my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield and Lord Hunt of Wirral—made it plain that they would never vote for the affirmative resolution in the form of clause 42. Did the Home Secretary indicate at any stage that, if he could not obtain...

Public Bill Committee: Fraud (Trials without a Jury) Bill: Clause 1 (12 Dec 2006)

Douglas Hogg: ...point, Mr. Bercow—I know that we need to press on. We are seeing this primary legislation simply in order to enable the Government to use the Parliament Act. The right hon. and noble Lord Hunt of Wirral made it absolutely plain that he and our friends would not support this on an affirmative resolution. The Government know full well that they will have difficulties with that...

Orders of the Day — Constitutional Reform Bill [Lords] (17 Jan 2005)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...of powers, and in particular, although this is not stated, the power to strike down primary legislation. As a general proposition—we will see what happens during the challenge to the Hunting Act 2004—the supreme court will not have the power to strike down primary legislation. In truth, the supreme court as described in the Bill will largely be the Judicial Committee as it now...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...falconry. I happen to support falconry—I think it is a glorious sport—but I am entitled to ask, by means of an amendment, why the Bill expressly permits falconry while prohibiting hunting with hounds. Where lies the logic in that? Similarly, there are provisions relating to terrier work and shooting. I am an enthusiastic, if very incompetent, shot, but why does the Bill...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Douglas Hogg: Schedule 1 includes ratting as a permitted form of hunting. That makes the right hon. Gentleman's point: no Bill that has ever come before us could not have been improved. By using the Parliament Act, however, we are preventing this Bill from being improved, and that is outrageous. I have two final points to make. The first relates to Third Reading. The motion allows but half an hour, which...

Business of the House (13 Sep 2004)

Mr Douglas Hogg: May I reinforce the points made by my hon. Friend the shadow Leader of the House? No one can suppose that generous provision has been made for discussion of the Hunting Bill: it is five hours for Second Reading, inclusive of the procedure motion. Surely we have another day available. We should use that second day to discuss in Committee the detail of the Bill and to debate further the use of...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ..., of course, are angling, shooting and fishing. The central question that the House ought to ask itself is whether there is a substantial and significant difference between angling, shooting and hunting with hounds. If the answer is that there is no such difference, surely there are only two conclusions to which an honest person can come: either all those activities should be subject to...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...some modest experience to this matter; it is perhaps not so considerable as that of my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex. I am a modest angler. I have practised beagling and I support the local hunt, and I have shot game birds all my life. My considered view is that there is absolutely no difference of principle between any of those activities. Let us first take angling. For coarse...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...That brings me to my final point. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex, I joined the two countryside marches. I was at the demonstration in Hyde park. I look forward to welcoming my local hunt at my house in Lincolnshire in February. They are a cross-section of society: honourable, respectable, law-abiding and decent, and the very bedrock of the society that I recognise and for...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Douglas Hogg: Would the Minister be good enough to tell the House the difference in principle between hunting with hounds, angling and pheasant shooting?

Hunting with Dogs (3 Dec 2002)

Mr Douglas Hogg: Does not the right hon. Gentleman understand that there is no distinction of principle between shooting, hunting and angling? They are, in substance, the same, and in a free society individuals should be entitled to participate in all of them. Furthermore, it is the business of this House to protect minorities, not to trample on their rights. In a free society, the golden thread should be the...

Schedule: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Douglas Hogg: Let us take a Scots hunt that is hunting foxes. It crosses the border and the huntsman is aware that he has crossed the border. The hounds are chasing foxes in England. However, the huntsman wants to recall the hounds and take them back to Scotland. At what point does the huntsman cease to be a person hunting?

Schedule: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...remains lawful. I am sure that the House does not appreciate that, by introducing the Bill, the Government are striking a blow against shooting. Under clause 1, it is an offence for a person to hunt a wild mammal with a dog. The defences are set out in clause 7. Under that clause, the defence operates only if the first condition in clause 7(3) is satisfied. In the context of hare shooting...

Schedule: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) has demonstrated from his family experience, foxes cross the boundary between England and Scotland—a fact that comes as no surprise to anyone who knows about foxhunting or any country activity. Whatever the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) says, the plain truth is that we are diminishing the freedoms of Scots. No Scots hunt could...

Schedule: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Douglas Hogg: Absolutely. My hon. Friend is quite right. I should like to make a final point about fox sanctuaries. If foxes can be lawfully hunted one side of the border, but not on the other, they will congregate in England. That will not be terribly popular with English farmers close to the border, as my hon. Friend the Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) will tell us. In fact, the farmers will then shoot...

Schedule: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...does not accept the amendment, we will be derogating the authority of the Scottish Parliament? In reality, unless we accept the amendment, those who support the Scottish hounds will not be able to hunt close to the border. That will diminish the freedoms of Scots, which should, under devolution, be a matter for the Scottish Parliament.

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...1. We must not impose on livestock producers an even heavier burden at this time. My hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) is wholly right to speak of the very important services that hunts provide in the disposal of fallen stock. If we must have a Bill such as this, not to make proper provision for such disposal is a dereliction of duty.

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Douglas Hogg: My hon. Friend shows the importance of Report stage, which is being truncated. The House has naturally focused on the responsibilities of hunts for the disposal of fallen stock, but my hon. Friend has reminded us about deer on the roads. If there be no hunts, the cost will fall on district councils, and thus on the council tax payer. That is another example of the Government's not thinking...

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

Mr Douglas Hogg: ...law intervening in that matter. I am trying to make the point that, in democratic societies, we have to respect the rights of minorities. My second point is that people like me, who defend foxhunting, are often accused of being the sort of people who would have supported bear baiting and so on. That is simply not true. The proper comparisons with foxhunting are angling, pheasant shooting...

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

Mr Douglas Hogg: The Countryside Alliance is involved in the democratic process. In many Conservative-controlled constituencies, it strongly supports the Conservative Members who defend hunting. That is to participate in democracy in Britain.