Results 1-20 of 195 for hunting speaker:Peter Luff

Orders of the Day: Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill [Lords] (19 Mar 2007)

Peter Luff: ...the courts—the ombudsman's findings. There are also concerns about the way in which the Office of Fair Trading works. I noticed a recent report headlined "Over-active OFT is going OTT in its hunt for scalps", and I note that the banking sector has expressed its concern about its regulation. The Sunday Telegraph reports: "Bank lending is regulated by the Financial Services Authority...

Neighbourhood Policing (West Mercia) (6 Jul 2005)

Peter Luff: ...level by the chief constable. However, there is the beginning of a concern. Controversially, the police have been asked to do things of which my constituents do not approve, such as enforce the hunting ban. There is a concern among my middle-class constituents—I know that it is controversial, but it happens to be true—about what is seen as a war on the motorist, or the soft...

Millennium Review Summit (26 May 2005)

Peter Luff: ...some difficult choices, particularly in relation to indigenous peoples. There is a real risk of cultural imperialism by the west, especially on animal rights issues. When we restrict the ability to hunt species that are not in danger, what do we do to indigenous peoples? There is also a danger of cultural imperialism in labour laws, which is what worries me about the comments of the hon....

Foreign Affairs and Defence (18 May 2005)

Peter Luff: ...and travellers, who in my constituency make a mockery of the planning system, something on which the Government's response is inadequate; and nothing to reverse the draconian and illiberal ban on hunting or to address animal welfare rather than class prejudice. In short, there is nothing much for rural shires at all. It is a very thin Queen's Speech, indeed, when viewed from a constituency...

Points of Order (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Luff: ...Will you confirm that it would be in order, in principle, to table manuscript amendments to these very late Government motions? The new proposals mean that those of us who wish to oppose a ban on hunting face difficult decisions. If there is to be a ban, we would want it to be extended for the maximum period before implementation. Are manuscript amendments acceptable in principle? Will you...

Business of the House (13 Sep 2004)

Mr Peter Luff: ...churlish not to welcome flexibility by the Government whenever they are prepared to show it, but could I encourage the Minister to exercise that flexibility rather differently? It is true that the Hunting Bill has been scrutinised extensively in the House, but not in its current form, and many issues concerning its practicality, its enforceability and intellectual consistency deserve...

Licensing Act (23 Jun 2004)

Mr Peter Luff: .... Some years ago, my good friend, Gary Smart, grandson of Billy Smart, wanted to bring Billy Smart's circus to Pitchcroft, the race course in the centre of Worcester. The race course is a national hunt course: they jump there and, of course, horses often fall during races and are put down. It is a tragedy, but it happens. The local authority at the time—I will not score any party...

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting With Dogs (20 May 2004)

Mr Peter Luff: ...the evidence during his answer to the hon. Member for Waveney (Mr. Blizzard), and the Minister often professes a great attachment to scientific objectivity and curiosity in matters that relate to hunting with dogs, although his body language and rhetoric sometimes suggest something rather different. I suspect that that criticism could be made of me, of course. The peer group review will...

Oral Answers to Questions — Cabinet Office: Civil Servants (20 Apr 2004)

Mr Peter Luff: ...which she should have carried responsibility. If the Government are to squeeze an extra Bill into the legislative timetable, should it not be a long overdue Civil Service Bill, not a Bill to ban hunting?

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Hare Hunting (20 Jan 2004)

Mr Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make it his policy to increase the three week consultation period before imposing the temporary ban in hunting and coursing of hares in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Hare Coursing (11 Dec 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: ...for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the effect of (a) legal coursing on the recovery of the hare population and (b) appropriate land management by coursing clubs and responsible hunting groups on hare conservation; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Hare Coursing (11 Dec 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: ...assessment he has made of the reliability of evidence for the decline in the Irish hare; what assessment he has made of the effect of (a) setting up a monitoring system and (b) developing current hunting, shooting and coursing practices to ensure they cannot have an unsustainable impact on hare numbers; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Hare Coursing (11 Dec 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what scientific evidence he has assessed that supports the case for banning hare hunting and coursing in Northern Ireland; for what reason such evidence was not circulated in detail to concerned parties; and if he will make a statement.

Hunting Bill: New Clause 1 — Compensation (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: On the ban's commencement and the question of compensation, will my hon. Friend clarify whether the new clause, which I support, would cover the destruction of the 100,000 hunting dogs that will have to be put down in very short order if hunting is banned? I am worried that it may not cover that process, which will be very distressing and expensive for the hunts concerned.

Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (8 Jul 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: Does my hon. Friend share my concern that today's hypocrisy may be considerable? The scent of the blood of a ban on fox hunting may be still in Labour Members' nostrils to such an extent that they think that they can reduce opposition to foundation hospitals and squeeze the proposal through. In fact, the link that he makes between fox hunting and today's proceedings could be considerable and...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: New clause 8 - Compensation (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: ...that our new clause 8, which I hope we will put to the vote in due course, is more restrictive than the Minister understands or my interventions might suggest. I remind him that the ending of hunting, which this Bill enforces, is a total ban—the idea that it is anything else is disingenuous—and will end the largest voluntary access agreement for horse riders to the countryside...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: .... We are motivated by animal welfare, which I accept that Labour Members do not understand. Many of our suggestions deal with the issue in a precise way. I accept that Labour Members do not like hunting. The previous amendments were drafted in classic style, but Labour Members resisted one that would have improved animal welfare. They did it because of their fear that they would see packs...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: ...is blunter than amendment No. 72 because possibly in stalking, and certainly in flushing foxes to guns, some will inevitably go to ground. In the Scottish legislation, ''flushing'', ''cover'' and ''hunting'' are not defined, which makes our job more difficult. It has led to considerable confusion over what exactly a hunt is as compared with, for example, a flush from one end of a large...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: ..., it drew up, published and promoted a code of conduct for terrier work that covered all quarry species and different types of activities involving the use of terriers. Even those who oppose hunting with dogs have never offered any criticism of the code because it is not enforceable in law. The National Working Terrier Federation went on to suggest amendments to the Minister that would...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: Schedule 1 - Exempt Hunting (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Peter Luff: ...19 to 20 of subsection (4) could prejudice the welfare of shot foxes. Labour Members should not have jeered when we said that we did not have enough time. We are not trying to find a loophole for hunting, we are trying to advance animal welfare, and there are big issues in subsections (4) and (5) that could prejudice that welfare. Our new clause 7 may be imperfect—I am prepared to...