Results 1-20 of 30 for hunting speaker:James Paice

Public Bill Committee: Animal Welfare Bill: New Clause 14 - Snares (26 Jan 2006)

James Paice: ...of a non-target species, it can be released. However, the main point that I want to put to him is that the House decided—rightly or wrongly, depending on people’s views—to ban fox hunting. That leaves only a small number of ways to control foxes. Lamping is the one frequently discussed, but there is also snaring and live trapping. Live trapping is immensely difficult, as...

Public Bill Committee: Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill: Schedule 1 - Natural England (21 Jun 2005)

James Paice: ...what they are doing. The SSSI protection and wildlife protection legislation that is found later in the Bill and that exists in much other legislation might even—to be absurd—allow hunting to be permitted on a national nature reserve. I am not suggesting that it would, but why should they have Crown immunity over everything when it should be possible to exempt them from...

Public Bill Committee: Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill: Clause 1 - “Constitution” (21 Jun 2005)

James Paice: ...it clear earlier that I was not talking about that. Part of the Forestry Commission’s problem is that, to use a phrase that is now politically incorrect, it is trying to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, inasmuch as it is managing a forestry estate and trying, unsuccessfully, to run it commercially, while trying to support the private sector. I referred earlier to the...

Orders of the Day — Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill (6 Jun 2005)

James Paice: ...hon. Friends elected to make their maiden speeches. That is a clear demonstration of the genuine Conservative empathy with the countryside, rather than the caricature that we are only interested in hunting. Indeed, until 9.15 this evening, the only person to have mentioned hunting in this debate was the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker). This debate gives me the opportunity to welcome...

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

Mr James Paice: ...in this Chamber. I want to make it absolutely clear that my party and I take that view. I do not believe that those who have disrupted our proceedings this afternoon are any more representative of hunt supporters than the violent end of those who seek to oppose hunting are representative of hunt opponents. I believe that this is a sad day for this country, not just because of hunting, but...

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

Mr James Paice: ...between 30 and 40 lb, which is caught at least once a week by anglers. That issue underlines one of the holes in the argument that fishing is somehow different that is made by those who wish to ban hunting. If cruelty is the fundamental issue, hon. Members who voted last week to ban hunting in its entirety should be equally in favour of a complete ban on angling. The hon. Member for West...

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

Mr James Paice: ...been made. I believe passionately that the welfare of those animals will suffer as a result of the Bill. It is possible to say that individual animals might be better off because they will not be hunted. But we should be worried about the welfare of the species—the overall population and the number of animals. I do not believe that banning hunting will increase the welfare of the...

Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4) (1 Jul 2003)

Mr James Paice: ...the motion. It stands in stark contrast to his lacklustre performance last night. Is not the reason for that enthusiasm the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has always supported a total ban on hunting? Was not all the claptrap about utility and cruelty designed merely to con the hunting fraternity into thinking that he was interested in its views?

Public Bill Committee: Anti-social Behaviour Bill: Clause 29 - Dispersal of groups and removal of persons under 16 to their place of residence (8 May 2003)

Mr James Paice: ...in my area in last week's elections was a man in his 50s. He has lived in his home town all his life. When he knocked on a particular door, a retired police officer came out and said, ''Ah, Hunt. I know the size of your collar, but I'll still vote for you''—not that that did the man any good, mind. The point is that he was a successful business man who, like many other people when...

Public Bill Committee: Police Reform Bill [Lords]: New clause 6 - Special constables (27 Jun 2002)

Mr James Paice: ...my ignorance. Please do not say, ''Hear, hear.'' [Interruption.] Yes, it is slightly bigger than a Twix and smaller than a Mars bar, I think. It also conjures up visions of the wild west and people hunting renegades.

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr James Paice: ...and, unlike one speaker, I do not think that this has been a particularly good debate. I have been saddened by the superficiality of the arguments made—and not just by those who want to ban hunting. The hon. Member for Brigg and Goole (Mr. Cawsey) clearly does not understand hunting. I accept that everyone is entitled to reach their own conclusions, but it was clear from his speech...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr James Paice: ...clearly spurious. We have heard about animals being ripped to pieces. They sometimes are but, as the Burns report made clear, that is after they are dead, so that argument cannot be used against hunting. The hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mr. Thomas) has clearly put to bed the nonsensical figure of 5 per cent. In many parts of the country, the figure is much higher than that. I want to speak...

Police (8 Mar 2002)

Mr James Paice: ...do with overwork. I strongly suspect that it is much more to do with the debate that we will have on Monday week, because the Government have had to throw a sop to their Back Benchers by debating hunting. We know that the parliamentary programme of the House of Lords is full and that, to get a hunting Bill in, other things have had to come out.

Foot and Mouth (27 Mar 2001)

Mr James Paice: Last week, the Prime Minister told the House that there was not a shortage of slaughterers, and that it would not be necessary to accept offers of help from hunts and other organisations. There is no excuse for the fact that the slaughter of infected animals has not kept pace with their diagnosis. On Friday, the chief scientific officer announced that the average delay had lengthened to three...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (21 Mar 2001)

Mr James Paice: ...of valuation; for squabbling between different Departments; for waiting for the Environment Agency to look at every single aspect of the matter; and for political correctness about not using hunt servants as slaughtermen? Will the Prime Minister do everything he can to bang heads together and to make sure that those actions are carried out as quickly as possible?

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Mr James Paice: .... The question is whether that restriction is justified. Having read the Burns report carefully, I do not believe that the case is made for that restriction. The statement in the Burns report that hunting compromises the welfare of the animal is often quoted. That is obvious and does not need saying. It is self-evident that the individual animal's welfare is compromised. I want to look...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Mr James Paice: ...I want to quote the Burns report. I know that it is easy to find bits of the report to quote in support of our case. On page 14, Burns says clearly: It follows that the welfare of animals which are hunted should be compared with the welfare which, on a realistic assessment, would be likely to result from the legal methods used by farmers and others to manage the population of these animals...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Mr James Paice: My hon. Friend is right. His intervention endorses the point that I was making. The hon. Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) referred to the hare, the third most commonly hunted species. On estates that allow legal coursing meets to take place—obviously, I am not referring to the countless illegal operations that sadly take place in parts of the country—almost without exception the...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Mr James Paice: ...be doing and whether it is right for people's souls for them to, as some have suggested, enjoy inflicting cruelty. I believe that that is wrong. We have heard many spurious reasons for banning hunting. Some people say that hunters are unpleasant people. The hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster) read out articles from his local paper. I am the first to accept that I find some people who...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Mr James Paice: It is very kind of my hon. Friend. That is not a reason for stopping people doing what they want to do. The hon. Member for West Ham said that no one was criticising people who go hunting. If he read some of the correspondence that I receive, in which hunters are accused of being twisted and wicked and all sorts of evil people, he would take that back. We have even heard about red coats and...