Results 1-20 of 35 for hunting speaker:Owen Paterson

[Mrs. Joan Humble in the Chair] — Health Care (Shropshire) (14 Jul 2009)

Owen Paterson: ...the system. To cheer the Minister up I shall move to some good news, which is that I am happy to have the jewel in the crown of Shropshire health care in my constituency. That is the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt orthopaedic hospital, which is a shining example of how health care can be provided. I was chomping through my drearily healthy breakfast about a year ago when I saw a list of...

Healthcare Services (Shropshire) (25 Jan 2006)

Owen Paterson: .... There is a world-class hospital in my constituency at Gobowen, which is in the top tier for cleanliness and already has three-star status. There were only two MRSA cases per 10,000 patients at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt hospital, which is going for foundation status. However, one of the brakes on gaining that status is the fact that it needs clarification of the tariff for work done...

Bovine TB (6 Dec 2005)

Owen Paterson: ...a single herd going down. However, the authorities also took vigorous, if unpopular, action to bear down on disease in wildlife. The white-tailed deer is iconic, but the culling of deer by means of hunting exceeds the culling of cattle. There is a huge public education programme, and the white-tailed deer population has been reduced by half. People were astonished by the grotesque level of...

Fallen Livestock (29 Jun 2005)

Owen Paterson: ...that the scheme is viable and that companies such as Cluttons invest in new trucks and new bulking-up areas? My hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (David T.C. Davies) touched on the question of hunts. In March 2005, 143 of the 360 recognised fallen stock disposal outlets were hunt kennels. According to Produce Studies Ltd., which contributed to the Burns inquiry, hunt kennels subsidised...

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

Mr Owen Paterson: ...procedures to which the Government have access. In December 2002, the Government presented a Bill that the Minister said was based on "evidence and principle". We now have a Bill to ban fox hunting. It is an utter disgrace that we have not had a full Committee process, nor any time today to discuss the economic and employment consequences of the ban. We have not talked about matters such...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Owen Paterson: ..., the Prime Minister said that every policy decision must pass this key test: "Does it, in practical terms, advance and improve the lives of Britain's hardworking families in the future?" A hunting ban in Shropshire will cause people to lose their jobs, damage businesses, do nothing for animal welfare and place intolerable pressure on an already stretched police force. Will the Leader of...

Horse Exports (31 Mar 2004)

Mr Owen Paterson: ...reasons not to remove the moratorium or, indeed, to relax it in any way. Only 7,000 horses are eaten in this country, and we have a totally satisfactory mechanism, involving knacker's yards and hunt kennels, for disposing of redundant and dead horses. One huge advantage of the Minister taking the opportunity offered by the European Union to take up the derogation would be that we would not...

Written Answers — Health: Maternity Services (Shropshire) (6 Oct 2003)

Mr Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps were made to recruit midwives to cover maternity leave before the decision was made to close the maternity unit at the Robert James and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.

Written Answers — Health: Maternity Services (Shropshire) (6 Oct 2003)

Mr Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the closure of the maternity unit at the Robert James and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital will be temporary.

Written Answers — Health: Maternity Services (Shropshire) (6 Oct 2003)

Mr Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost of refurbishing the maternity unit at the Robert James and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital at Gobowen to the latest quality standards with a projected life span of 25 years.

Written Answers — Health: Cancelled Operations (4 Mar 2002)

Mr Owen Paterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations were cancelled in 2001 in the (a) Royal Shrewsbury, (b) Princess Royal, (c) Robert Jones and (d) Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic hospitals.

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: ...have suffered an accident on a farm and are put down in a humane manner. Someone has to dispose of the bodies. At the moment the animal is killed; it then has to be taken away and disposed of. The hunts provide a free service so that there is no health problem for farm animals or any human beings in the area. This is a massive problem. Because the Government have made such a middle of...

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: The man who collected the carcases is totally separate from the hunt service and he had them on his premises. Because of the emergency regulations, he was not allowed to move them although he would normally have done so. The key issue is the volume and the disproportionate impact in rural areas. In my patch, the Wynnstay hunt has disposed of 2,500 calves, the North Shropshire hunt of 2,500...

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: The hon. Gentleman is trying to be clever, and trying to make a muddle out of a desperately serious problem in an area such as mine. He is laughing about it. The man is separate from the hunt service and he collects animals. Those animals were destined for another destination, but they were temporarily frozen in his yard. As other hon. Members have said, there are parallels to the hunt...

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: I shall try in very simple terms to explain that there is a free hunt service and that, in my patch, three separate hunts have taken 2,500 calves each. Because there is such a volume of material, other people also provide a service. In this case, a knackerman had 17 carcases that he had taken from different farms. Because of the emergency regulations, which he was obeying, they were...

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: I am sorry that my hon. and learned Friend is in a muddle as well. The simple fact is that such a volume of material has to be disposed of that it is not just the hunts that take it away. The hunts are at capacity, and there are other methods. In this case, the knackerman had collected the carcases and was going to take them to a renderer, but he was temporarily stopped. The key point is...

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: My point is the hypocrisy of a Government who from their inner sanctum recommend that people use the services of the hunt kennels and two days later push through a Bill that will ban that service. I hope that the Minister has taken that point on board, but I shall write to him with the figures for Shropshire. They are enormous and it is the volume of material that we should consider.

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: ...job losses. That may not sound very many to Labour Members representing urban constituencies, but a small saddler whom I know employs seven people and 75 per cent. of his turnover is devoted to hunting. That firm will close. I know a small family feed merchant that supplies the hunting community. It employs only three people, but it will close completely. That is 100 per cent. devastating...

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: ...about animals that are completely healthy. Dairy cows that have slipped in the yard because the ground is icy or that have died giving birth are impossible to move. The whole point about the hunt service is that the hunt staff come round immediately, within half an hour, and put the animal down, on the spot, without causing distress.

New Clause 1: Disposal of Fallen Stock (27 Feb 2001)

Mr Owen Paterson: ...been made already, so I shall be relatively brief, but I should like to repeat some earlier comments. It is absolutely crazy in the eyes of many people who live in the country that we are debating hunting today, when we are looking at probably the worst crisis that the nation has faced since 1967, with foot and mouth disease. I was about 11 when the last crisis happened, and it was...