Results 1-17 of 17 for hunting speaker:Tim Loughton

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: ...but for the child's parents over too many years. How much better it would have been if the problem had been picked up earlier and if support had been offered earlier, rather than the great treasure hunt of parents having to try to find support with a minimum of help and information. Many problems affect SEN, and I want to touch on a few of them. On assessment—this goes for SEN and...

Mental Health Bill [ Lords] (Programme) (No. 3): Clause 10 — The fundamental principles (4 Jul 2007)

Tim Loughton: ...which he would prefer not to take—in whose interests are we actually acting? I should be grateful if the Minister commented on that. In the debate in the Lords on Monday, his colleague Lord Hunt acknowledged "concerns that supervised community treatment could be used too readily and that it could be used as a failsafe option without true justification."—[ Official Report,...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Carers (11 Jun 2007)

Tim Loughton: ...of carers much easier because they do the nation an enormous service. We need to make their access and entitlement to information much easier so that they do not have to spend so much of their time hunting for it. We must make the paperwork simpler and shorter. My hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) cited horrendous figures to illustrate the complexities of the...

Orders of the Day: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [ Lords] (19 Jun 2006)

Tim Loughton: ...welcomed it being introduced rather sooner—sooner after the publication of the Bichard report on 22 June 2004, which is two years ago this Thursday, and sooner after the conviction of Ian Huntley back in December 2003. However, this is important legislation that takes up, as the Minister has said, recommendation 19 of the Bichard report, which is to set up a single, consistent...

Public Bill Committee: Children and Adoption Bill [Lords]: New Clause 3 - Pilot scheme on early intervention (21 Mar 2006)

Tim Loughton: ...included Dr. Hamish Cameron, a consultant child psychiatrist; Audrey Damazer, clerk to the justices of the inner London family proceedings court; Diane Elliott from the Institute of Family Therapy; Joan Hunt from the Oxford family policy unit; Brian Kirby from CAFCASS; Ruth Smallacombe, a mediator of Family Law in Partnership; the then chief executive of CAFCASS and Veronica Carter,...

Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords] (13 Sep 2004)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...important issues at stake in the original measure. We shall doubtless be subject to a tight timetable—I hope that the Bill will not be derailed altogether by the latest posturing about fox hunting—and we should not allow valuable time to be diverted to debating smacking, rather than the wider issues of child abuse. I trust that hon. Members will adhere to that in Committee and...

Vulnerable Children (16 Jul 2003)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...councils, who all had responsibility for departments that should have looked after Victoria Climbié, went on to greater things. One became the head of the Commission for Racial Equality; one was head-hunted by Hackney council; one council leader went to the Lords and is a member of the Greater London Authority. If we add to that the track record of the hon. Member for Barking for...

Adoption and Children Bill: Clause 44 — Suitability Of Adopters (4 Nov 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...as my hon. Friend has said. I want to consider obstructions to adoption and why more people are not coming forward and ending up as adoptive parents. Despite some improvements, it is clear, as Lord Hunt said in another place, that XMany of the problems that we currently face with the shortage of adoptive parents stem from the number of hurdles that they have to go through, which can lead...

Adoption and Children Bill: Clause 44 — Suitability Of Adopters (4 Nov 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ..., she offered to refer adoptions to the Cabinet Office-led review of civil partnerships, which she did. That committee has not reported yet. In a statement in another place two weeks ago, Lord Hunt said: XWork is going on in government to carry out an investigation into the implications of establishing a partnership registration scheme. It is presently comprised of cross-departmental work....

Adoption and Children Bill: Clause 44 — Suitability Of Adopters (4 Nov 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...also agree that unmarried couples should have priority over gay couples."—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 16 October 2002; Vol. 639, c. 874.] Many hon. Members will have sympathy with that view, yet Lord Hunt specifically ruled out such a possibility in July 2002. In any case, legal opinion suggests that such an approach would certainly fall foul of the Human Rights Act 1998 in...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...order if we had pursued the subject, Mr. Pike. [Interruption.] It is totally irrelevant because the Government are not seeking to ban specialist tobacco shops, whereas they are seeking to ban fox hunting outright. There is no direct corollary between the two. The Government are perfectly happy for specialist tobacco shops to continue. The amendment would allow those specialists shops to...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) about the emphasis of the argument, but he put it succinctly when he said that it is a strange set of priorities to include in the Queen's Speech the Hunting Bill, but not something that Government Members keep telling us is an important measure. It is rich for the Secretary of State to begin his speech by claiming that the Government are now...

Breast Cancer Strategy (23 Oct 2001)

Mr Tim Loughton: .... What will be measured is actual output and outcomes, not the amount of paperwork, which the Government are so good at producing. The hon. Gentleman was right to pay tribute to Dr. Timothy Hunt and Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel prize winners of a few weeks ago. It is an irony that in this country, which is a leader in cancer research, the standards for survival do not compare with many of our...

Orders of the Day — Homes Bill (8 Jan 2001)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...agents are hardly a danger to society. As my hon. Friend the Member for Woking (Mr. Matins) said, the measures are heavy-handed. Before Christmas, the Government instigated measures to criminalise the hunting fraternity and now members of the house-selling fraternity are to become criminals if they fall foul of the rules. When will the Government do something about cracking down on the...

Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security (7 Dec 2000)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...of pseudo Bills and sloganising, and it is aimed cynically and solely at cutting and running to a spring election. One of the most cynical measures in the Queen's Speech is the last-minute Bill on hunting. Regardless of what one thinks of hunting—I am no fan of it—the Bill has been included in the knowledge that it is unlikely to become law. It was proposed after a Government...

European Union (25 May 1999)

Mr Tim Loughton: As the hon. Gentleman takes such exception to the passages on animal welfare, would he tell us why his Government did not support the fox hunting measure, why they did not rescue the Fur Farming Bill and why they have done absolutely nothing about live animal exports and a host of other promises in their manifesto that have not even been started on? Can he explain that?

Orders of the Day — Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill (5 Mar 1999)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...of fur farms, and the affect that it would have on unemployment, would have no serious impact on rural economies; it is unlike the serious case that I could make on the impact that the end of fox hunting would have. There is a conflict between welfare and profit. Quasi-genetic modification practices currently produce rare colours on the fur of mink that can fetch higher prices and that...