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Orders of the Day — Equality Bill (5 Apr 2005)

Mrs Eleanor Laing: ...Government have timetabled the Second Reading today, when the Bill has no chance of becoming law. What a pity that we did not use all those hours that we spent debating the rights and wrongs of fox hunting to consider this Bill, which, had it become law—in a slightly different form, having been through a proper Committee stage—could have done so much good.

Deferred Divisions (16 Jul 2003)

Mrs Eleanor Laing: ...and children are at risk. I know that the Minister has been under pressure because of her past record of failure to protect children in Islington. It was, of course, the first London borough to ban fox hunting, but it was not very good at paedophile hunting. [Interruption.]

Orders of the Day — Constitution and Parliament (30 Nov 1998)

Mrs Eleanor Laing: ...entirely overlooked through prejudice. Much of the debate has been about what people who sit in another place do in their leisure time. That is irrelevant. It does not matter whether someone goes hunting on a horse, plays badminton or whatever. That is irrelevant. What matters is what they do when they are in Parliament. I repeat that one does not inherit political views. Such views come...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (4 Jul 1997)

Mrs Eleanor Laing: ...has been well preserved and contains some of the best examples of ancient native British trees. Some of the trees that we now admire are the very ones around which Henry VIII rode when he was hunting, and under which Elizabeth I is reputed to have had her famous liaisons with the Earl of Essex. A thousand years ago, a church was built in the town that we now call Waltham Abbey. King...