Results 1-10 of 10 for hunting speaker:Alan Simpson

Food Supplements Directive (20 Jan 2003)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...because it reflects the negotiating position that the Government seek to occupy. In particular, it is worth supporting because, as I must say for the record, the robust negotiations involving Lord Hunt have presented a formidable challenge to many of the inclinations that people wanted to be written into the first draft of the directive. It is important for us to recognise the lobbying and...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting (1 Feb 2002)

Mr Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the registered figures are for each hunt outing this year in respect of (a) riders and (b) followers under the post foot and mouth reporting rules.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (15 Feb 2001)

Mr Alan Simpson: The answer is that the hunters—the predators—would organise themselves with greater competence and cause less damage to the countryside than organised hunts.

Points of Order (8 Feb 2001)

Mr Alan Simpson: My point of order is about the business of the House which we shall have to consider shortly. As a member of the Committee considering the Hunting Bill, I am somewhat confused about how the matter has come back to the House. Presumably it was discussed by the usual channels, who presumably agreed that the House should authorise further time for the Bill's consideration in Committee. I do not...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting With Dogs: Prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...to be passive in the face of that makes one a collusive part of it. The problem faced by the right hon. Gentleman is to be found in accepting that it is manifestly the will of the House to make hunting with dogs an illegal and criminal offence. There are two consequences. The first is that the right hon. Gentleman and many others need to understand the change in the law. Also, as a wise...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with dogs: prohibition (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Alan Simpson: I suspect that I am one of the few Members who has actually seen a fox being caught, disembowelled and dismembered. I witnessed it by accident when I was out with hunt saboteurs. I would like to disentangle some of the points that have been made by Opposition Members and especially by the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex. The hunt was nowhere near the fox. Most of the pack had been given the slip...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (25 Jan 2001)

Mr Alan Simpson: If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that foxhunting is a form of pest control rather than a sport, will he explain why foxes had to be imported into the Isle of Wight by the hunt for them to be hunted?

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (23 Jan 2001)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...policing. I ask that the right hon. Gentleman at least refers to the information given by my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Goole, who said that in Scotland post-1959, following the prohibition of hunting deer with dogs, the policing bill for enforcement has been nil. The evidence of massively reduced costs surely supports a different argument, namely, that the legislation will free...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (23 Jan 2001)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...is healthy if you do not knowingly commit crimes.'' All the hon. Gentleman's forewarnings appear to be based on a premise that, even when the Bill becomes law, those who are involved in hunting will continue to be involved: they will knowingly break the law. The hon. Gentleman referred to the recreational pastimes of people in rural communities and I have tried to apply his principle to...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Schedule 3 - Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (23 Jan 2001)

Mr Alan Simpson: ...accept that an important distinction should be drawn between reservations and evidence? To return to the earlier discussion of cross-border issues, evidence from Scotland shows that since deer hunting with hounds was banned in 1959, there has been no significant problem with policing costs. Why? It is because the activity no longer exists. If the hon. Gentleman thinks that recidivist...