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Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Agricultural Labour (21 May 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: ...harvesting, largely due to the economic climate in which they are operating. However, I can assure him that we keep the situation under close review. Indeed, all being well, my noble Friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath will meet my hon. Friend the Minister for Borders and Immigration in the week after the recess.

Opposition Day — [6th Allotted Day]: British Agriculture and Food Labelling (24 Feb 2009) has video

Jane Kennedy: ...isolated in Europe, and already lack support for their key policies, such as renegotiating a ratified treaty of Lisbon. On that key policy, they are supported by the Dutch animals party, the French hunting, fishing, nature, tradition party, Sinn Fein and some communists. [Interruption.] On renegotiating the treaty of Amsterdam regarding the social chapter, they have no support from any...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Recycling (6 Nov 2008)

Jane Kennedy: ...8212; — 14.2 — 142 Household 1.1 1.2 22.1 0.4 — 1.0 25.8 Total 9.8 8.3 50.2 4.1 186.1 8.6 267.2 2004 Agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 — 0.1 0.3 Mining and quarrying — — — — 70.9 — 70.9 Industrial 2.6 4.5 8.4 2.8 12.2 4.3...

Written Answers — Treasury: Meat: Smuggling (7 Jul 2008)

Jane Kennedy: There is no precise definition of bush meat, which is generally understood to be the meat of wild animals hunted for food. Central Government statistical records of illegal meat seizures do not separately identify bush meat. HM Revenue and Customs record seizures of illegally imported meat and animal products as "bush meat" where this was how the owners described the meat to customs...

Written Answers — Health: NHS Logistics (12 Sep 2005)

Jane Kennedy: ...Chase PCT East Staffordshire PCT Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust Newcastle-under-Lyme PCT North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust North Stoke PCT Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (The) Shropshire County PCT South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust South Stoke PCT South Western Staffordshire PCT...

Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]: Clause 12 — Investigations into Current Police Practices and Policies (27 Mar 2003)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...every organisation has such 'bad apples'. They should be dealt with." I agree with that. However, there is a balance to be struck. It is not the role of the ombudsman to conduct a series of witch hunts, nor does the present post-holder have any such intention. But our judgment is that the current wording of the regulations made under section 64 of the 1998 Act, as amended by section 65 of...

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

Ms Jane Kennedy: The amendments presuppose that hunting is banned in England but remains legal in Scotland. Amendment No. 76 would allow a hunt that began in Scotland to continue in England without an offence being committed. Amendment No. 77 defines when hunting would begin and end. I am aware that the Scottish Parliament is considering a Bill on hunting with dogs. The hon. Members for Beaconsfield (Mr....

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

Ms Jane Kennedy: I have already said that it is the responsibility of those undertaking hunting to ensure that their conduct does not become an offence. I do not think that that is difficult for the House to understand. I reiterate that there will be no problem for the police if different regimes apply on the two sides of the English-Scottish border. The amendments have no basis in logic and would simply...

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

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...tabled by Members who oppose the decision that the House took to support the third option. In my opinion, they are intended simply to provide a loophole that would allow individuals to continue foxhunting with hounds by beginning in Scotland and bringing the hunt into England. We should not accept an amendment that would cut across the wishes of this Parliament and 1 invite the hon. Member...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...counsel on the question of the use of rats in cellars. Parliamentary counsel is of the view that a court could interpret the Bill as drafted in such a way as to prohibit the use of dogs to hunt for rodents in cellars. That is undesirable, and does not reflect the intention of the House, nor, I suspect, of the Committee, although that will be for the Committee to decide. Accordingly, we...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...be a Government amendment on Report to achieve the same purpose, he may see fit not to press the amendment. I am afraid that I am less sympathetic to amendment No. 125, which would allow rodent hunting in caves and potholes. The Committee may accept that there is a need for dogs to hunt rats for the purpose of pest control. It may also accept that a case cannot be made for prohibiting...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ..., 80 and 83 and those that are consequential on them—Nos. 76, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84 and 85. The effect of the amendments is simple to describe. The overriding purpose of the schedule is to ban hunting with dogs. However, it contains a number of exceptions covering circumstances where it would still be appropriate to permit hunting with dogs. Each of those exceptions comes with a number...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...of game and are subject to shooting? The amendment's only potential practical effect would run counter to the policy agreed by the whole House, in that it would increase the amount of lawful hunting with dogs. The exceptions to the ban on hunting with dogs have been tightly drawn. The amendments would widen them beyond the intention of the schedule as written by Deadline 2000.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: .... I invite the Committee to reflect on the amendments in the light of the decision of the Committee of the whole House. We should also consider whether a change that could allow much more hunting with dogs is in keeping with the wishes of the Committee of the whole House. Members of the Committee who have examined carefully the remaining amendments—Nos. 91 to 93, 95, 101 and...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: Thank you, Mr. O'Hara. In response to the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, the Bill does not provide an exception for goats. A person who intentionally hunted goats would commit an offence, but a person who tends goats, and does not intend to hunt them, will not commit an offence.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: Thank you, Mr. O'Hara. The right hon. Gentleman is unnecessarily anxious about this definition. If the person is tending the goats—or husbanding them, to use an old phrase—he is not hunting them. That goes back to the intention of the individual. I hope that my explanation will satisfy other members of the Committee, if not the right hon. Gentleman. I am sorry if he is still...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...different purposes. Like the hon. Member for Buckingham, I shall deal with the amendments in two batches, starting with amendments Nos. 52, 122, 53, 63 and 88. The Bill allows a limited amount of hunting with dogs to take place in specific circumstances, and the exceptions are set out in part II of the schedule. Amendments No. 52, 122, 53 and 63 refer to the species to which the...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Supervision (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...defences outlined in it, they would not be able to argue that defence and the court would have to make up its mind on the evidence before it. If the amendments were accepted, a person accused of hunting could simply suggest, without adducing any evidence, that one or all of the defences applied and then leave it to the prosecution to disprove beyond reasonable doubt each and every defence...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Supervision (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...authorities to prove that he or she does not. That principle applies to the Bill. Hon. Members will see that the terms of the exceptions concern matters within the knowledge of the person who is hunting. For example, it is easier for someone who has been hunting with dogs to demonstrate that he or she was seeking to retrieve a rabbit or hare that had been shot or that he was acting with...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Supervision (8 Feb 2001)

Ms Jane Kennedy: ...must satisfy is, as hon. Gentlemen know, the civil test of balance of probability. They do not have to meet the criminal test of proof beyond reasonable doubt. That was firmly established in R v. Hunt, as reported at—