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Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day — First Part]: Foot and Mouth/Bluetongue (17 Oct 2007) has video

David Maclean: ...package, but that should apply to the whole country. Scotland should not be separately funded on economic grounds. My 13th charge relates to the confusion over access controls. DEFRA rightly banned hunting and all hunts complied, but people could ride hundreds of galloping horses over the fields, or walk over the fields, provided that they were not hunting. DEFRA let its prejudices rise to...

Police Service Restructuring (29 Nov 2005)

David Maclean: ...it will be amalgamated with Lancashire, or possibly with Liverpool. I say to the Minister that the only good news for us in Cumbria, without opening up another political subject such as support for hunting, is that we will not have a single copper left in Cumbria to enforce the hunting legislation, because Cumbria will always haul its officers down to the higher crime areas. That is not a...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Foot and Mouth (16 Oct 2001)

Mr David Maclean: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when her Department first received an offer from hunt staff to assist in the foot and mouth slaughter process; and when the first hunt slaughterman was engaged.

Orders of the Day — Christmas Day (Trading) Bill (16 Mar 2001)

Mr David Maclean: Like hunting.

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (Programme) (20 Dec 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...Government can make no comparison to the Sunday Trading Bill. I raise another issue in conclusion. I believe that, in the vote tonight, at least six Scottish Members from the Labour party voted to ban hunting in England and Wales. I would merely tell them that they do not know what they are doing. That will stoke up such massive unrest in rural areas of England and Wales that it will send...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...that they believe in social inclusion. Thank goodness not all Labour Members took that line. The Government have affirmed that they will introduce legislation that will inevitably lead to a ban on hunting, even though the excellent Burns report produced not a single scrap of evidence to justify that. Conservative Members accept that the freedom of the individual must be constrained when...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr David Maclean: I object to a ban on hunting now that we have the Burns report, because it contains no evidence to suggest that a ban is sensible or morally correct or that we should overrule our fundamental human freedoms. There has already been a free vote in the House. We have new evidence in the form of the Burns report, so Labour Members should be able to get off the hook on which they have hoist themselves.

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr David Maclean: No; I have heard enough from the hon. Gentleman today, if I may say so, and I have very little time. The freedom of each individual to hunt with hounds is no different in principle from the freedom to fish, shoot, eat meat, drink alcohol, smoke a cigarette, watch football, gamble on the lottery or worship as one chooses. A free society is one that jealously protects the freedoms of its...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...Members have paid polite attention to Bums. They congratulate Lord Burns on an excellent report and then find every excuse possible to avoid its conclusions. Burns has shot the fox of the anti-hunting extremists and Labour Members do not like that. We would have enjoyed the contribution from the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Savidge) more if it had not prevented other hon. Members...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...the job losses. The Burns report is clear that up to 8,000 jobs could he lost, not the mere 700 that the hon. Member for West Ham suggested. Burns goes on to suggest that many more people depend on hunting for their incomes, and that is why it is legitimate to talk of some 13,000 to 14,000 people who could be affected by a ban on hunting. The hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Mr....

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Maclean: Before my hon. Friend moves on from that point, would he care to explain to the House how drag-hunting would be of use in the lake district and the mountains, where on most occasions when the hunt is called out, it is to deal with foxes that are killing farmers lambs? How would drag-hunting deal with that problem?

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...my right hon. and learned Friend would care to ask Labour Members what is the distinction between a fox in respect of clause 1 and rabbits and rodents in respect of clause 2. The Bill permits the hunting of rabbits and rodents, presumably because they are not regarded as being so cuddly as foxes.

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...right hon. and learned Friend aware that the British Racing Board has forecast that there would be not only large jobs losses in other industries, but highly detrimental consequences for national hunt racing, a loss of skills, loss of breeding and loss of the bold riding style that we have in this country? There would be serious detrimental effects for horse racing generally.

Debate on the Address (17 Nov 1999)

Mr David Maclean: ...a tremendous amount of material in his speech. I do not propose to follow him down every route that he pursued, except to say that he called on the Government to go further in their promise to ban hunting. However, I read in the second paragraph of the Queen's Speech that the Government want to provide people with real opportunities to liberate their potential. It seems to me that the...

Debate on the Address (17 Nov 1999)

Mr David Maclean: Hunting is certainly a fundamental freedom; it is a freedom of choice which adults in this country have. Hunting is a conscience issue—people can decide whether or not to hunt. In the coming months, if the Government pursue that grossly illiberal measure, they will be pulled up short by hundreds of thousands of people.

Debate on the Address (17 Nov 1999)

Mr David Maclean: No, the hon. Gentleman will no doubt have plenty of time to make his own remarks. Hunting was a small point that I picked out from the speech of the hon. Member for Burnley, and it does not constitute the main substance of my remarks. I want to remind the House of the Government's key aim in the Queen's Speech, of providing people with real opportunities to liberate their potential". Those...

Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill: Local Referendums (13 Mar 1998)

Mr David Maclean: ...of the new clause and the Government's position, the hon. Gentleman will be aware of the article in Animal Action on 10 March, in which the Prime Minister said: I will be there to vote against hunting. It ought to be banned.

Policing of London (5 Feb 1996)

Mr David Maclean: ...8212;the crime intelligence system—was quoted as saying: With CRIMINT we are in a new world. I was recently asked if I knew something about a certain car. In the old days I would have had to hunt through my cards. I would probably have said, 'Yes, I do, but … '. With CRIMINT I was able to answer the question in about fifteen seconds. And with CRIMINT things just don't go...

Policing (London) (2 Dec 1994)

Mr David Maclean: ...lives in the same cause of keeping Her Majesty's peace in the capital. Hon. Members on both sides of the House raised many points during the debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Ravensbourne (Sir J. Hunt) mentioned the large drop in the number of burglaries in the Metropolitan police area, which has decreased by 14 per cent. The incidence of theft has decreased by 8 per cent. and total...

Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill: Offence of Aggravated Trespass (13 Apr 1994)

Mr David Maclean: ...convinced that the law is even handed. Anyone who invades someone else's land, intending to cause disruption, will fall foul of the law. I condemn anyone who causes such disruption and I condemn hunts or people who deliberately set out to do so —they deserve to receive the full weight of the law. It would be deplorable if anyone behaved in that way at the moment, but it will be even...