Results 1-20 of 20 for hunting speaker:Gerald Howarth

Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords]: Clause 77 — Employment equality regulations (16 Jan 2006)

Gerald Howarth: I strongly support the observations made by my neighbour and hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt). If the Bill achieves what he hopes it will achieve it will serve some useful purpose, but I have reservations about it. I do not wish to rain on anyone's parade, but it is important that such concerns, which extend beyond the House, are expressed. I have grave concerns...

Family Justice (13 Dec 2004)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...our health—do not smoke, do more dieting, do more exercise, do this, do that. Of course, it is perfectly right to criminalise those who are engaged in the traditional and ancient pursuit of hunting but, when the evidence shows that marriage is overwhelmingly the best form of raising children, they decide not to press that because they do not want to upset people who are in other...

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

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...able to pursue in a free society. Last weekend, when I visited the constituency of the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) in Northumberland, I met members of the College Valley hunt. Some of them had been down to Trimdon to have words with the Prime Minister and give him some advice about this. The Prime Minister apparently told them that he was sympathetic, but could do...

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

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...to make it a place to be enjoyed by the remaining 95 per cent. of the population. Many members of my family in Scotland are sheep farmers in the borders. My late uncle was master of the Jed Forest hunt. These are people who are the greatest animal lovers in the country. How dare my right hon. Friend suggest that my uncle's judgment was somehow inferior to hers? I think she needs to examine...

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

Mr Gerald Howarth: .... I think that the Government have failed to deal with the issue of cruelty, and I think it a shame that we have not had more opportunity to ask the hon. Member for West Ham whether he considers hunting with hounds more cruel than coarse fishing—which, on any scale of cruelty, I submit would appear to be more cruel. The fact is that rural communities will be feeling tonight that they...

Zimbabwe (1 Jul 2004)

Mr Gerald Howarth: Especially on fox hunting.

Criminal Justice and Police Bill (12 Mar 2001)

Mr Gerald Howarth: My hon. Friend mentions the other place. Not content with neutering this House, Lord Falconer will tomorrow propose a motion to instruct a Committee of the whole House to whom the Hunting Bill has been committed, that, notwithstanding the normal practice of the House in Committee, no amendments be considered except any amendments to leave out clause 1 … and insert a new clause". Is he...

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

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...Parliament, and the problems will be worse if the amendment, or one like it, is not accepted by the Government. I spoke tonight to my uncle, Charlie Douglas, a former master of the Jed Forest hunt. He tells me that the hunt often crosses the border. However, it is not always possible to delineate where that lies, as the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed made clear and as I may have...

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

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...countryside. They will simply ram the legislation through. I expect that they will vote against the amendment, quite oblivious to the very real risks that would be run by those engaged in lawful hunting in Scotland if their hounds or the fox strayed across the border. I hope that the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, will not tell us that we are talking about...

Social Security Contributions (Share Options) Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Consideration of Lords Amendments and further messages from the Lords (8 Feb 2001)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...be deemed to have completed consideration of what are, in some instances, complex matters. The first motion, for example, shows the fatuousness of the original proposal that proceedings on the Hunting Bill should be completed by a certain time, because the Government must now return to the House—

Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill (6 Feb 2001)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...the outset. I accept that the Minister mentioned it in his opening speech, but we should have advance knowledge of the reasons for measures. We know why the Criminal Justice and Police Bill and the Hunting Bill were introduced. However, I had to get a briefing from the Library to learn the reason for the Bill that we are discussing. I subsequently received the letter from the hon. Member...

Orders of the Day — Lords amendments and further messages from the Lords (29 Jan 2001)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...table amendments in Committee, there will be only four hours on Report for other hon. Members who are not members of the Committee to comment on important measures for dealing with intimidation at Huntingdon Life Sciences, and also with the hunt saboteurs who go round disrupting hunting in this country.

Orders of the Day — Electoral Commission (9 Jan 2001)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...listener, who is concerned about those issues. It is imperative that we are clear about where Glyn Mathias and Sam Younger stand on this issue. I cast no aspersions upon them. This is not a witch hunt and I am not suggesting that they are not men of integrity. We have all seen Glyn Mathias on television. I happen to have a rather higher regard for the World Service than for any other part...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (13 Dec 2000)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...constitutional resolution to the problem, all Scottish Members should follow the honourable example of the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) and take a vow of abstinence, starting with the Hunting Bill on Monday?

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (17 Nov 1998)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...how I feel about the matter. I have not been raking over the coals. New evidence has appeared in the book by Mr. Tom Bower and in the excellent book called "Trial by Conspiracy" by Jonathan Boyd Hunt, a copy of which I shall let the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) have, for an appropriate fee—he insisted that he wanted to pay for it and did not want it for free. It...

New clause 21: Corporal Punishment (24 Mar 1998)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...endearing features of the Liberals is that, on many issues, they display a substantial degree of illiberality. One issue on which they do so is the question of the right of individuals to go fox hunting, although there are honourable exceptions among the Liberals. The new clause has a lot to do with principle—the principle of the right of a parent to decide how to deal with his...

Opposition Day: Standards and Privileges (17 Nov 1997)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...for so doing—but if one cannot speak one's mind in this place, where in the world can one do that? I believe that Mr. Hamilton has been subjected to the most wicked, vicious witch hunt in the media—particularly in The Guardian newspaper, whose journalists have something to answer for. Nobody knows better than me that he has conducted himself throughout the past extraordinary...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...Front Bench of the party's vitriolic hatred of people who pursue country sports. If the hon. Gentleman's case is that, because the opinion polls show that a large proportion of people are against hunting, the House should act against hunting, may I invite him to join me in the Lobby in support of capital punishment?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements. (2 Apr 1985)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...our children ILEA's aparatchiks are ordering the removal from school libraries of books such as "Robinson Crusoe", which is imperialist and "Jane Eyre" which is sexist? In deploring that witch hunt, will my right hon. Friend agree that girls helping their mums and boys helping their dads is as natural as pictures showing Socialists in opposition and Tories in government?

West Midlands (25 Jul 1983)

Mr Gerald Howarth: ...is thus constantly changing to meet the challenge of the 1980s. My constituency is surrounded by beautiful heart of England countryside. Cannock Chase to the north was formerly a royal hunting forest and in 1958 was declared an area of outstanding natural beauty. Sadly, it is better known to the popular mind as the scene of certain darker deeds. As many hon. Members know, and as has been...