Results 1-20 of 27 for hunting speaker:Lord Rooker

Environment: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (3 Apr 2008)

Lord Rooker: ...one-week timeshare in the Lake District. I use it every year and get up there as often as possible, even on Defra business—I shall be there during the Recess, visiting farms in Cumbria. I met the hunt trailers last year. I know that the noble Lord is one of their presidents. I had seen hunt-trailing last summer but did not know what it was. It was only when I met the hunt trailers...

Climate Change Bill [HL] (8 Jan 2008)

Lord Rooker: This has been a useful debate. I was almost going to rest my case on the fact that my noble friend Lord Hunt read out Clause 10 (3) but that would be trite. A point that has not been made is that while subsection (2) has that list—and I will come to a discussion on that—subsection (1) requires the Secretary of State as well as the Committee on Climate Change to consider the...

Debate on the Address (13 Nov 2007)

Lord Rooker: ...with tips for using leftovers. I personally have not seen it, but I am reliably informed about it. There is no question that Defra is under additional pressure at the present time, so these things are not unimportant. My noble friend Lord Hunt of Chesterton raised the issue of climate change, as I expected. No doubt I will hear from him and other colleagues around the House every day that...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Food: Bush Meat (30 Oct 2007)

Lord Rooker: Internationally, many animals hunted and traded as bush meat are listed in the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Where this is the case, any international trade in these animals, their parts or derivatives is therefore either banned completely or controlled by means of a permitting system.

Energy: Radioactive Waste Management (S&T Report) (29 Oct 2007)

Lord Rooker: ...as I can. I shall try to take them in order, but if I get the order wrong, I apologise. Some issues were raised by many noble Lords. For clarity, if I can link them, I will. My noble friend Lord Hunt raised points about research and said that we needed to be more involved nationally. I think that his message to the Government was to get in there, get involved in the debate and get with it,...

Business of the House: Debate Today (26 Jul 2007)

Lord Rooker: My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in the name of the Leader of the House on the Order Paper. Moved, That the debate on the Motion in the name of Lord Hunt of Kings Heath set down for today shall be limited to three and a half hours.—(Lord Rooker.)

Public Services: Rural Areas (24 May 2007)

Lord Rooker: ...noble Lord, Lord Inglewood, made the point about hearts and minds. He touched on a point about the impression given from 1997 about what happened afterwards in the handling of foot and mouth and hunting. Perhaps I was elected in 1997 in favour of the ban, but before I got here I changed my mind anyway, born out of my experience in MAFF. It is as simple as that. It was a question of...

Docking of Working Dogs' Tails (England) Regulations 2007 (28 Mar 2007)

Lord Rooker: ...yet proportionate way of establishing a genuine intention that the dog will work. Regulation 3 and Schedule 1 provide that the dog can be only of a certain type; namely, a spaniel, a terrier, or a hunt point retrieve breed. The inclusion of the types of dog as groups rather than breeds does not mean that the Government anticipate that King Charles spaniels or Yorkshire terriers will be...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Hunting: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2006)

Lord Rooker: There are no plans to ban fox hunting with hounds in Northern Ireland.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Northern Ireland: Hunting with Hounds (19 Jul 2005)

Lord Rooker: Any decision to ban hunting in Northern Ireland should be taken by a locally elected assembly and the main Northern Ireland political parties have indicated their support for this view.

Lords Amendment (16 Nov 2004)

Lord Rooker: I am sure that it would be, my Lords—if I had it. That is not a criticism. With all due respect to the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, who has been incredibly positive and constructive in these debates, I am relying on what I said earlier. It is too early, in some ways. The criteria were set out on Second Reading and in Committee—that is part of it. The membership is the key to what will...

Housing Bill (3 Nov 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...my best to answer the points individually, but there are some key issues that we need to discuss, as this is Third Reading and it is do or die. Contrary to the remarks made by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, the process is broke. We reject the case that the process is not broke and that we do not need to fix it—it is broke. The starting point for this amendment should be a clear...

Housing Bill (19 Oct 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...and sold two or three times with people knocking bits and pieces about, then one might understand why we make the case that people ought to be covered if it is second hand. The noble Lord, Lord Hunt, asked about the Government assumption about the cost of the pack being deferred until completion. The most successful current home information packs—and they are very much...

Housing Bill (19 Oct 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...the EU directive on the energy performance of buildings and providing information on the energy efficiency of the property and ways of improving it. I fully take on board what the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, said about the pilot. He is right. Before you embark on a major area of policy, pilot it. We never had any lessons in Opposition about government, except for about three days at...

High Hedges: Legislation (15 Jul 2003)

Lord Rooker: ...other place, the Bill would sail through. It just falls foul of the archaic rules on Private Member's Bills in the other place. On a free vote, of course, the other place has chosen to send us the Hunting Bill instead of the High Hedges Bill.

Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill (20 Mar 2003)

Lord Rooker: ...—indeed, the only Select Committee on which I served—I am a big supporter of the National Audit Office and the kind of scrutiny it carries out. It is an excellent committee. Its members hunt as a pack. There are no party divisions in the PAC. As no Minister appears as a witness, they coalesce to give the civil servants a bashing. That is basically the theory. My point is that...

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill (27 Nov 2001)

Lord Rooker: ...practical purposes, most international terrorists are virtually stateless in the technical sense. The country from which they come does not want them back—the government there are probably hunting for them—and they are living under aliases in other countries. So the old way of working, where you knew where the enemy was, does not quite work with today's international terrorism....

Multi-ethnic Britain (19 Jul 2001)

Lord Rooker: ...improved by us through targeting resources in this way. We have found that the old way of spreading the money thinly did not work. I hope that I dealt with the point made by my noble friend Lord Hunt. In fact, one of the issues raised was the work between the English and French regarding the Channel Tunnel. I shall be visiting Dover and Coquilles tomorrow to review some of these issues at...

Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech (27 Jun 2001)

Lord Rooker: ...to abolish your Lordships' House. I hope that that issue can now be put aside. I shall try to speak briefly on the health and home affairs issues raised in the gracious Speech. My noble friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, who is to wind up the debate, will deal with health issues in more detail. The Government have proposed three major health Bills in the gracious Speech. The first is the NHS...

House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975: Other amendments (13 Feb 1997)

Mr Jeff Rooker: ...(Mr. Hogg)—is the Member who spoke from the Back Benches in 1985, and said that this was a wholly undesirable process. The House is almost empty and there is plenty of time, but I am not hunting for the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I prepared my speech three days ago, well before I knew about next week's censure motion. Amendment No.16 covers the Chairman of an Agricultural...