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Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Post Office Card Account (10 Nov 2008) has video

Gerald Kaufman: ...about the issue: Post Office card accounts were created by this Labour Government. The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats try to portray the accounts as a grand old British tradition, like fox hunting or the Poor Law, but the account was created by the Labour Government in 2003 as the electronic equivalent of the benefits order book, which people used to collect their pensions. The...

Hunting Act 2004 (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on the Government's policy towards applications in the courts for injunctions to delay or to prevent the commencement of the Hunting Act 2004.

Hunting Act 2004 (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...has expressed its will repeatedly by large majorities? Will he further confirm that, whatever the courts may be able to do, they are not able to change the text of an Act of Parliament, and the Hunting Act lays down commencement three calendar months after enactment on 18 November? Will he take it from me and many other Members that we are sick and tired of hearing two voices coming from...

Points of Order (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have two matters to raise. First, I should be grateful if you asked the Minister in charge of the Hunting Bill to explain how the commitment that he has repeatedly given at the Dispatch Box, and therefore in the House, that Labour Members of Parliament have a free vote is compatible with the activity of Government Whips trying to get Labour Members to vote...

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...that more than 90 per cent. of those who took part in the Countryside Alliance march vote Conservative. The hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) said earlier that, if people believe in hunting, they will vote Conservative. It is one thing for the Prime Minister and the Government to want a great national consensus on all kinds of issues, but a great national consensus in which they...

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: .... Tonight is the night; this is our chance. Let us chuck out everything on the Order Paper and vote for the Bill as we decided we wanted it two months ago, and by the end of the week we will have a Hunting Act that enacts a total ban.

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: I respect the sincerity of the hon. Member for St. Ives (Andrew George), but the basis of his argument gives rise to two questions. First, during the entire discussion of the ban on hunting, opponents of the ban have sought to jerk our tears by talking about the jobs that will be lost. The Countryside Alliance and similar groups all say that these jobs are at stake and will be lost if there...

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...are the first from someone who supports the Bill as sent from the House of Commons to the House of Lords. Secondly, not only is it the implication of what the hon. Member for St. Ives said that hunt employers are horrible people with no sense of loyalty to the people they employ, but he is asking to make them a special case. The estimate of Burns, much quoted by the hon. Member for North...

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...that has been active ever since my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster) moved his Bill early in the last Parliament. It is now, of course, as it was then, an issue about the ethos of hunting and the cruelty of tearing wild creatures to pieces for pleasure. That is the essence of what we have been campaigning about. Although that is the heart of the Bill, there are now other...

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

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...his Bill. That is the most significant aspect of the legislation that we are debating this evening: 34 years after I came into the House, with a succession of private Members' Bills seeking to ban hunting with dogs, we have for the first time—this is an historic moment—a Government Bill to ban hunting with dogs. The hon. Member for North Wiltshire completely misunderstands the...

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

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...of direct employment at a time when the country has the highest employment and the lowest unemployment for 30 years. That is absurd, as is the argument about the dogs. Everyone who knows about hunting knows that any dog in a hunting pack has a limited life. As soon as that dog no longer serves its purpose as part of a hunting pack, it is shot dead by these animal-loving huntsmen and...

Business of the House (8 Jul 2004)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...-day motion 978, in my name and those of several of my right hon. and hon. Friends, has now attracted 269 signatures? [That this House looks forward to the early re-introduction of the Government's Hunting Bill; recalls its own votes to ban the cruel sport of hunting with dogs on at least nine occasions since 1995; welcomes the Government's commitment to resolve the issue in this...

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

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...my right hon. and hon. Friends all over the country, did not say that we would enter into consultation in Portcullis House. It said that we would give the House of Commons an opportunity to ban fox hunting. That is what we have tonight. With all respect to my constituents, whom I love and who, by definition, are the most intelligent people in the country, I do not believe that all of them...

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

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...for me at the last election did so because of the pledge in the Labour party manifesto. What did the manifesto say? It said: "The House of Commons elected in 1997 made clear its wish to ban fox-hunting." That was on the Bill introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester. The manifesto went on: "We will . . . enable Parliament to reach a conclusion on this issue." The right hon....

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

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...we go along, no false impressions are allowed to go on the record. The Minister interrupted my hon. Friend by saying that the first clause refers to a ban. It does no such thing. Clause 1 states: "Hunting wild mammals with dogs "A person commits an offence if he hunts a wild mammal with a dog, unless his hunting is— (a) registered for the purpose of pest control, or (b) exempt." The...

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

Mr Gerald Kaufman: The Minister says that some of his hon. Friends believe that fox hunting is cruel in all circumstances. I would draw his attention to the fact that among those hon. Friends is the Prime Minister, who said on 17 January 2001: "I am opposed to fox hunting".—[ Official Report, 17 January 2001; Vol. 361, c. 344.] Of course, that is in conformity with the Labour party election manifesto,...

Business of the House (26 Jun 2003)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: With regard to the Hunting Bill on Monday, will my right hon. Friend give me two assurances on procedure? First, it has been put to me that there is an intention on the part of the Government that the Bill will be recommitted to a Standing Committee at the end of the Report stage. If that were to happen, it would be an underhanded device, which would arouse intense anger in this House and...

Business of the House (12 Jun 2003)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: As my right hon. Friend did not mention it in his statement of the business for the next two weeks, will he now give me a categorical assurance that the remaining stages of the Hunting Bill will be taken before the summer recess? Will he accept it from me that those of us who have gone into the Lobby to support the Government on contentious issues that were not in the Labour party election...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: The hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) talked of what we fought for during the last war but I do not remember that very great man, his grandfather, saying, XWe will fight them on the hunting fields". The hon. Gentleman said that he took part in the march of the Countryside Alliance. It was appropriate that he should do so because the march was overwhelmingly Conservative. A MORI poll of...

Business of the House (5 Dec 2002)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...that the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill will be considered in Committee of the whole House. Has he considered whether it might be for the convenience of the House that at least part of the Hunting Bill should be considered in Committee of the whole House?