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Business of the House: Safeguarding Children (20 Nov 2008) has video

Barry Sheerman: ...are extending our inquiry to cover the most vulnerable children—those on the at-risk register. When such a tragedy occurs, nobody wants, at one extreme, a whitewash or, at the other, a witch hunt. If we really care about vulnerable young children, we must do everything that we can to ensure that such things never happen again. However, will my right hon. Friend remember that to raise...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Birds (23 Apr 2007)

Barry Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the effect on the migrating British bird population of the hunting and shooting policies of EU member states.

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: BBC Charter (6 Mar 2006)

Barry Sheerman: ...not win an Oscar last night, "Good Night, and Good Luck"? It shows an age 50 years ago when journalists and television stations had the integrity, courage, independence and honesty to take on witch hunts and to face them down.

Safeguarding Children (12 Jan 2006)

Barry Sheerman: ...than making decisions on such issues in panic and hysteria driven by the media, ably assisted by the both main Opposition parties. The issue is serious, but we must be careful about starting witch hunts and creating a system that bars not only those who have received a caution or conviction, but those who have been the subject of an allegation. As a constituency MP, I have seen too many...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...the minority, but there are many people in this country who take a different view from the majority on country sports. As I explained in the original debate on this issue in 1997, I used to be anti-hunting, but then I thought through why I took that view. I have never hunted and I never want to. I do not shoot. I do not ride. However, I have lived in the country, reared chickens and ducks,...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Barry Sheerman: I am sorry to disagree with my hon. Friend—we have been friends for a very long time—but we hold different views on the importance we attach to hunting with dogs. In my view, there is a range of issues, such as abortion, that this House should debate in a very different way. They should be debated through private Members' Bills, because that is a much healthier method. I have...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...who have been here as long as I have care very much about the reputation of the House, of Parliament and of professional politicians. This does that reputation no good. Whatever their views on hunting, most people outside the House want to see fair play, and I do not think that people watching our debate and seeing the Parliament Act being invoked will think that the British sense of fair...

Conduct of Elections (14 Sep 2004)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...do with the polling material obtained. It is all very well having a 50-question poll that provides a pretty accurate picture of people's thinking about health, obesity, countryside sports such as hunting with dogs, or any of the regular subjects that are polled, but what do those who have paid for that poll do with it? Is it legitimate for them to take only the five answers that they like?...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Barry Sheerman: I have been consistently in favour of banning hunting from before I came into Parliament and throughout my time in the House. However, I must confess to the House—I know that this will disappoint some of my hon. Friends—that I have changed my mind. I shall explain my reasons, because this should be a thoughtful debate. It is an important subject. I have been in the House for a...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Barry Sheerman: No, because I have only 10 minutes. One of my other worries is that many of the zealots on this issue—I am not referring to most of my colleagues—will not be content with banning hunting. They will go on to fishing and to the shooting of rabbits, pigeons, pheasants or whatever. They will not be satisfied until, as my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham (Mr. Banks) says, every...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...don't they come to some sort of compromise such as a middle way?" I believe that the Government will be remembered for certain things. I do not want them to be remembered for an obsession with foxhunting and for the hours that we have spent on the issue in this House and in Committee. However, people might remember us for that. I disagree with every word of some previous speakers in that I...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill (28 Nov 1997)

Mr Barry Sheerman: No, although I recognise a hunter. I have never hunted and all the time I have been in Parliament I have been a supporter of every Bill that decreases the amount of cruelty to animals. Indeed, I supported all three of the most recent Bills. However, I do not want people to think that I am anti-hunt: I am against cruelty to animals. Many people have criticised the position of my hon. Friend...

Clause 3: Criminal Law (23 Jun 1992)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...matter is sub judice, but fraud is alleged to have been perpetrated within it and money is alleged to have been salted away in European countries. There is a parallel to be drawn between methods of hunting down the ill-gotten gains from drugs and those from fraud. How would the two activities be dealt with under the convention or under the bilateral agreements? I see that the list of...

Orders of the Day — Runway Capacity (South-East England): Crime Figures (23 Jul 1990)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...be a major inquiry. There has not been a major inquiry, so the comments must have been inspired by a Minister at the Home Office. If the Minister of State disavows that, he must say so today. The hunt is on for a scapegoat. The hunt is on in the Government to blame the British police for the crime figures which are rising so fast. I ask the Minister of State—this is a serious...

Broadcasting (Cable Systems) (2 Dec 1982)

Mr Barry Sheerman: ...matters underlying the debate. Are we convinced that in planning the introduction of the technology we are fulfilling a public need? If so, are we confident that the proposals contained in the Hunt report will provide adequate safeguards for the welfare of all sections of society? It is blatantly clear that the Government are not interested in the public's opinions and desires. The...