Results 1-20 of 86 for hunting speaker:Elliot Morley

Written Answers — Home Department: Wildlife: Crime (8 May 2008)

Elliot Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will review the effectiveness of enforcement by police forces of measures against wildlife crime and illegal hunting.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting: Fines (1 May 2008)

Elliot Morley: ...the cross-compliance rules governing the common agricultural policy to deduct payments from landowners who have permitted their land to be used for (a) illegal poisoning of birds of prey and (b) hunting with hounds.

Written Ministerial Statements — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (20 Dec 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ...have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses. Prior to the conference I was aware of considerable public concern about proposals submitted in relation to trade in lions, ivory and rhino and leopard hunting trophies. On the lion, the range states were not convinced that the biological data were sufficient to justify a total ban on commercial trade and Kenya was eventually persuaded to...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: EU Committees (15 Nov 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ...specimens from the following species/countries combinations: Tridacna maxima Vietnam Negative opinions for import of specimens of the following species/countries combinations Canis lupus Belarus (hunting trophies) Ursus arctos Slovenia (hunting trophies) Geochelone pardalis Uganda Blastomussa wellsi Indonesia Tridacna crocea Vietnam Tridacna squamosa Vietnam No opinion for import of...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Falconry (15 Nov 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ...falconry. The Department consults fully with its statutory scientific advisers before any licences are issued, on the species, and number of each species, that falconers should be permitted to hunt each season. These procedures ensure that the number of birds allowed to be killed by falconers is limited strictly to small numbers and only to species whose populations can sustain such slight...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Lions (27 Oct 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ...three year grants for work on 'Big Cat Conservation and Sustainable Management in Southern Africa'. The output from this project informed a decision by the South African Government to reduce lion hunting quotas. At the recent CITES meeting in Bangkok I announced a contribution of £30,000 to help set up workshops in Africa to gather information on lion management.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (21 Oct 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: Following expert advice the Government, along with the other EU member states, voted in support of the amended Namibian proposal. This provided that only adult males could be exported and that all hunting trophies would be marked with the country of origin, species, quota number and year of export. South Africa's proposal was also supported following their amendment reducing the annual quota...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Cites (20 Oct 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ..., along with the other EU member states, was as follows: (a) Black rhinoceros—We supported the amended Namibian proposal on condition that only adult males could be exported and that all hunting trophies would be marked with the country of origin, species, quota number and year of export. Similarly, following South Africa's amendment of their proposal reducing the annual quota from...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Lions (11 Oct 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ...within the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to press for collaborative action to ensure that the lion does not become endangered as a result of unsustainable trade in hunting trophies or for any other reason.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Cites (4 Oct 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: We believe that sufficient controls already exist to regulate the trade in hunting trophies and this issue has not been included in the agenda for discussion at the Conference of CITES Parties, which is to take place in Bangkok next month. The EU can prohibit the importation of particular species as hunting trophies if it considers the hunt to be unsustainably managed.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Cites (4 Oct 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: Under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), trade in hunting trophies is permitted only where the specimens were lawfully acquired and the trade will not be detrimental to the conservation of the species. This applies both to imports to the UK and to the EU as a whole. Import permits are not needed for trophies of species listed in Appendix II of CITES, where...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. I was not planning to wind up in order to allow Members more time, but I will answer his point directly. A number of hunts have contracted within the fallen stock collection scheme. It is a contractual arrangement—a business—about which we are very relaxed. Whatever future decisions hunts make, if they wish to continue with that contract and...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ...'s employment. It does not help to exaggerate the situation, and if the hon. Gentleman reads the Burns report, which contains a good evaluation of the number of full-time equivalents employed by hunts, he will find that 8,000 is a gross exaggeration. On the procedures for winding down hunts, I should say that there are many decent people involved in hunting who are already thinking about...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: The hon. Gentleman has pre-empted me; I have the figures. According to Burns's figures, hunts directly employ 710 people—I refer the hon. Gentleman to paragraph 3.37. Followers directly employ 1,497 people. I do not know how many of those people do other things. Of course, there are others—up to 5,000 is the figure provided—who have some connection with the hunt. That does...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ...of the sport against its opponents, that sufficient laws already exist to prevent abuse and that minority rights must be considered along with the sport's social value. It was even stated that hunted animals derive pleasure from the activity—although similar remarks were made when the abolition of bull baiting was debated in this House in the 1800s. It seems that the arguments about...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: ...I want to make points on two important issues: minorities and democracy. I concede that the rights of minorities are important, and that majority views are not always correct. I would still oppose hunting with hounds if I were in a minority, but I do not believe that I am in this country. As the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) said, it is not rational...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting Trophies (19 Apr 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: All applications for permits are referred to the UK's Authority for advice on the conservation status of the species concerned. An applicant wishing to import a hunting trophy from an endangered species would need to provide a copy of the export permit issued by the exporting country. This is regarded as proof of legal acquisition and without this an import permit would not be authorised.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting Trophies (19 Apr 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: I am not aware of any applications in the last five years to import hunting trophies which were acquired illegally.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Trophy Hunting (29 Mar 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: The Government have no plans to take steps to control the activities of those who offer legal trophy hunting packages. Powers are available to refuse the import of hunting trophies and we shall not hesitate to use them where there is evidence that hunting trophies have been taken illegally, or that such hunting is itself unsustainable.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Trophy Hunting (25 Feb 2004)

Mr Elliot Morley: Many of the species that are hunted for trophies are listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which is implemented in the EU under Council Regulation 338/97. Under these Regulations, the import of hunting trophies is allowed only where it has been established that this will not be detrimental to the populations concerned. We shall not hesitate to use...