Results 1-20 of 49 for hunting speaker:Martin Salter

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: New Clause 8 — MCZs: duty to manage and mitigate impacts upon existing activities (26 Oct 2009) has video

Martin Salter: ...catch. I get tired of listening to the argument that people have had a traditional right to pursue their quarry in this way. The same argument was made about the white rhino in Africa until it was hunted to extinction, and the Spanish and the Portuguese are making the same argument about the bluefin tuna fishery. Bluefin tuna have got probably months, and certainly no more than two or...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 291 (7 Jul 2009)

Martin Salter: ...the Country Land and Business Association and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation are not ill-informed bodies. Will the Minister explain why, despite the assurances given by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath in the other place, the fears and concerns do not appear to have been allayed? How much progress does he hope to make in allaying those fears and concerns if he is merely...

Point of Order: Fisheries (14 Dec 2006)

Martin Salter: ...enable today's vast fishing boats to find and catch their prey as never before. Some types of fish, such as prawns and salmon, can be farmed, but industrial fishing remains largely a matter of hunting down prey—what Charles Clover calls "fish mining". That is an apt term, as commercial fishermen now haul fish out much faster than they can replenish stocks. As my hon. Friend the...

Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]: Transport Strategy (5 Dec 2006)

Martin Salter: It is amazing that the hon. Gentleman should eat into his time to discuss angling and hunting. I do not know of any angler who would catch a prize specimen fish, throw it to a pack of dogs, watch it being ripped to pieces before smearing the blood on their forehead and calling it a sport. Anglers are not like that.

Business of the House: Legislative Process (1 Nov 2006)

Martin Salter: ...been estimated at an additional £2.5 million for both Houses, or £1.5 million in the Commons. The experiment was not without cost—and did we achieve that much, apart from putting through a ban on fox hunting and allowing people to invade the House of Commons while we tried to operate in a building site? In 2003, the House sat from Monday 8 September to Thursday 18...

House of Commons Commission (Annual Report) (16 Dec 2004)

Mr Martin Salter: ..., because we have tradition? Of course we have tradition. We have a tradition of putting people up chimneys. We have all sorts of traditions that we should have got rid of a long time ago—fox hunting was one of them. After long discussions with the people who organise the UK Youth Parliament, I believe it would be a tremendous asset if, from time to time—not on a Wednesday, but...

Internet (Extreme Images) (18 May 2004)

Mr Martin Salter: ...the purpose of the debate is served. I spent an interesting, if slightly sickening, morning with the clubs and vice squad at Charing Cross police station. While there is intense police activity in hunting down those who promote, distribute and possess images of child pornography, it is a sad fact of life that only three police officers in the entire Metropolitan police area are devoted to...

Internet (Extreme Images) (18 May 2004)

Mr Martin Salter: ...banks, which I look to the Home Office to do. Access to credit card billing lubricates much of this sick industry. If it were not for the banks' smugness and complacency, it would be possible to hunt down the people who are putting these images on to our airwaves and profiting from the torture, rape and murder of women on camera for private profit and sexual gratification. Other hon....

Business of the House (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: ...activity and other stunts by the Countryside Alliance to disrupt the workings of Parliament after the failure of that organisation to convince the House of the case for continuing the practice of hunting with hounds?

Business of the House (13 Mar 2003)

Mr Martin Salter: Will the Leader of the House give us some indication of when we will be able to consider and vote on the Report stage of the Hunting Bill? May I respectfully suggest that, should we be dragged into a war in Iraq, it would hardly be appropriate for the House to be turning its attention to such matters?

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: .... I have been listening to the debate with interest, for what seems like many years. I have not come armed with a lengthy or prepared speech, but I shall use the time available to me. My views on hunting with hounds are well known. I agree with the hon. and learned Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier), who said that probably not a single opinion was swayed in the House tonight as a result...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: I thank my hon. Friend for the parts of his intervention that I heard. Most Labour Members have been consistent in calling for a hunting ban, but let us make no mistake: we will resist the blandishments of Opposition Members, because the only way in which we will deliver a ban is to give the Bill a Second Reading.

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: ...my hon. Friend. We saw no greater example of thuggery and criminal behaviour than that which was set by the rural yobs who were outside this place earlier. Opposition Members and others in the pro-hunting lobby claim that they are the champions of tradition and law and order, but we saw that they have selective hearing. They will condemn others who break the law. They are the group of...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: ...in the debate. A number of us, including Ministers, were privileged to visit the New Forest drag hounds a few years ago. We remember the prejudice shown against the New Forest drag hounds by the hunting community, who made it impossible for them to drag hunt over specific tracts of land. I am as alive as any Member to the tactics that the Countryside Alliance and the hunt supporters will...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: ...I will now take no more interventions. As I was saying, this Parliament is deemed competent to rule on the death penalty; yet for some reason we are being invited to sub-contract the decision on hunting first to a registrar and then to a tribunal including a land manager—how impartial will he or she be?—a veterinary surgeon or a lawyer. When I told my constituents that I would...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: ...possible lack of impartiality of a tribunal that includes a vet and a land manager, especially as a notable vet in my constituency has put a sign on his surgery today that says, XAnyone who opposes hunting is no longer welcome at this veterinary practice"? How impartial would that system be?

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: ...has circulated its brief extensively to its supporters in the Opposition. Will he join me and, hopefully, the rest of the House in condemning the act that took place only a few minutes ago when pro-hunt supporters threw a lighted flare at my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey)? Is that the Opposition's idea of free speech and a genuine expression of protest?

Hunting with Dogs (3 Dec 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: Will my right hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to Britain's 2 million-plus coarse anglers who have steadfastly refused to be conned or hoodwinked by the hunt lobby and their supporters on the Opposition Benches into supporting the doomed cause of hunting with hounds? Will he confirm that not only are field sports such as angling and shooting safe with the Government but they are being...

Rural Economy (16 Oct 2002)

Mr Martin Salter: ...released. In the United Kingdom, 26,300 full-time jobs are directly dependent on shooting. Another 13,450 are indirectly dependent on it. That is many more than the 700 jobs that relate directly to hunting, as identified in the Burns report, and very different from the 60,000 jobs that were supposed to be under threat if hunting were banned. Those were more lies and smears put about by the...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (20 Dec 2000)

Mr Martin Salter: Many of the points in favour of a ban on foxhunting and stag hunting have already been made, so I shall be mercifully brief. I am a long-standing opponent of this barbaric sport. In Reading, I campaigned on the issue long before the 1997 general election. The publication of the Bill has reinvigorated my faith in the Government; I went into the 1997 election with the perception that we would...