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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Michael Howard: ...out of control, tax is rising, hospital infections are spreading and there is a crisis in pensions, but the Prime Minister's message to the people of this country is that his priority is to ban fox hunting. When will he get to grips with the problems that people really care about?

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

Mr Michael Howard: My remarks this afternoon will be brief. I gave my reasons for opposing a ban on hunting in the Adjournment debate on the Burns report on 7 July 2000. As I said then, it is clear, on any reading of the report, that there is no animal welfare case for the banning of hunting. The report makes it clear that the only consequence of a ban would be an increased use of other methods of keeping the...

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

Mr Michael Howard: ...enforce a total ban, but the middle way would impose a far more complicated task on them. They would have to take a view in every case on whether the terms of the licence under which the particular hunting event in question occurred were being observed. Hon. Members should consider the nature of the burden that such a provision would impose on the police. It beggars belief that any...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr Michael Howard: In what I hope will be a relatively brief speech, I shall concentrate on fox hunting. In common with the constituents of every Member of Parliament, my constituents are divided on the question. The kennels of the East Kent hunt are at Elham in my constituency, but I know that many of my constituents strongly oppose fox hunting. The merit of the Burns report, to which I pay tribute in common...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr Michael Howard: ...my speech. The onus is on him. It is for him and those who wish to ban the practice to demonstrate the need for that very clearly. It is for them to demonstrate clearly that the consequences of fox hunting uniquely cause suffering to the fox which is not caused by other methods of controlling the fox population. If he cannot discharge that burden, there should not be a ban. That is the...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr Michael Howard: ...was excessive or unreasonable. It went on to conclude, applying those criteria: None of the field sports at present practised (except possibly, after inquiry, and in certain districts, otter hunting) should be prohibited on grounds of cruelty alone. I have attached great weight to the Scott Henderson report in reaching the view that I have always held about fox hunting. I could never quite...

Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill (12 Nov 1996)

Mr Michael Howard: ...the commission of crime, it is not possible to overlook that dreadful event. Clauses 2 to 5 provide for a number of essential but strictly limited exemptions. Certain professionals, such as vets, hunt servants and those working in slaughterhouses, need high-calibre handguns to destroy animals humanely, and they will be exempt. Equally, some types of pistol need to be exempt. They will...

Orders of the Day — Home Affairs (28 Oct 1996)

Mr Michael Howard: ...you on the impossibility of defining an undesirable dangerous knife without also catching other knives which should not be banned. We can all sympathise with the public view that certain types of hunting knives should not he on sale, but their definition would he difficult and the benefit dubious if carving and other catering knives are to remain available. The Police Superintendents...