Results 1-6 of 6 for hunting speaker:Mrs Diana Organ

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 8 - Tests for registration: utility and least suffering (16 Jan 2003)

Mrs Diana Organ: ...to do with the boundaries from enclosure or combating soil erosion? Is he really trying to argue, with regard to the whole nature of the landscape, that if the Bill goes through and there is less hunting, farmers up and down the country will be grubbing up hedges left, right and centre? I find that preposterous.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 8 - Tests for registration: utility and least suffering (16 Jan 2003)

Mrs Diana Organ: ...? We on this side have absolutely no objection to people taking leisure, for example by riding a horse across the open landscape. What we object to is pleasure being taken in the cruelty of the hunt. We have no objection to drag hunting. We think that that is a very good leisure pursuit for people in rural areas, but we take objection to pleasure being derived from the killing and harrying...

Public Bill Committee: Animal Health Bill: Clause 1 - Foot-and-Mouth Disease (29 Nov 2001)

Mrs Diana Organ: ...makes a comment about a trait in the British character: that we are sympathetic and loving to animals, including those in the wild. That is why the overwhelming majority of people want a ban on hunting with hounds.

Hysterectomies (7 Feb 2001)

Mrs Diana Organ: ...heavily on the Bolam test, which is designed to judge the competence of medical procedure but does not tell us whether a practice is right or lawful. The debate is not designed to cause a witch hunt against any specific surgeon or hospital. Different clinicians at different hospitals treated the women in the support group at different times. I have raised the matter because I want better...

Opposition Day: Forest of Dean (25 Jun 1998)

Mrs Diana Organ: ...against it, and against the lesser status of area of outstanding natural beauty. Each time, the forest did not gain protection, which was deemed unnecessary on the ground that, as an ancient royal hunting forest, it would be protected by the Forestry Commission. In 1974, there were investigations into making the forest an area of outstanding natural beauty, but again it was left...

Opposition Day: Forest of Dean (25 Jun 1998)

Mrs Diana Organ: ...have to be put out to public consultation. He did not say—neither was it ever agreed—that the matters would have to be settled later. What areas were to be covered—the old royal hunting forest, all of the district council area, all of my constituency, or only the St. Briavels hundred? Some people may have thought that, after the general election, the pledge could simply...