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Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (21 May 2009) has video

Dennis Skinner: ...written to her about the matter—who wants some help, too. His only claim to fame in the sporting field, compared with that of Jody Scheckter, is that he has a grandson who is a national hunt jockey. Can she help?

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food Safety (17 Mar 2005)

Mr Dennis Skinner: I have just thought of an idea. We do not have enough sniffer dogs, but there are literally thousands of dogs that previously hunted foxes. I am sure that the Tories would want to use them, so we could turn them all into sniffer dogs. As for food safety, I do not need any lectures on that. I am not allowed sugar, fat or salt, and I have to eat food that is completely bland. Jamie Oliver could...

Business of the House (17 Nov 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...I have a suggestion: the Liberal Democrats are keen on proportional representation and can bore people to tears by talking about it. They could explain why, some time ago, 26 Liberals voted for fox hunting and 26 Liberals voted against fox hunting, which is proportional representation—fair voting.

Department for Constitutional Affairs: Parliament Act (26 Oct 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Is the Minister aware that there is no better example for using the Parliament Act than fox hunting? The massive majority in this House has been repeated over and again, on a free vote. Then when the Bill goes to the House of Lords, where the Tories are in abundance, joined by other fox hunters—[Interruption.] There are more Tories than Labour peers in the House of Lords. They cannot...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Is the Leader of the House aware that many Labour Members welcome the fact that we will deal with hunting next week, albeit some of us are not too happy about the two-year delay? There might be a special delight in seeing Tory MPs encouraging lawbreakers in mining communities and elsewhere in the middle of a general election campaign, so that is another side of the argument just in case he...

Business of the House (22 Jul 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Does the Leader of the House recall that when he made those statements about getting rid of fox hunting, he almost gave me a wink and a nod that it would be dealt with when we return in September. We know that it will not happen in the first week and he conveniently said nothing about the second week. Do I take it as read that we will deal with it in that second week?

Business of the House (8 Jul 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...the basis of what he has already said to my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman), it would seem that waiting until 11 October will be a bit too late to get the hunting measure through? Will the Leader of the House confirm that it is in his mind that when we come back in September would be the most appropriate time, as there is not much time left now?...

Business of the House (17 Jun 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...for 22 July, which means that after the next two weeks' business, there are only three more weeks left before the long recess? He will know that I have called for the introduction of a ban on fox hunting, and we need that before the long recess. There are now three weeks available for us to show that most Labour MPs are in favour of banning hunting, most Tory MPs are in favour of the...

Business of the House (10 Jun 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...a witness? The Leader of the House has given us the agenda for the next 10 days. That takes us almost to July. Will he confirm that at some point in July he will announce the introduction of a fox hunting ban? Time is running out.

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting (22 Apr 2004)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...20 parliamentary weeks in this Session. For the life of me, I cannot understand why, if a big conversation is launched in the Labour party, and in almost every single discussion the banning of fox hunting in this Session of Parliament rears its head, the matter is not being dealt with. Get on with it. The Prime Minister dealt with the European problem the other day; let us settle this one...

Debate on the Address — [First Day] (26 Nov 2003)

Mr Dennis Skinner: My right hon. Friend has covered a lot of issues, but he has not mentioned a ban on fox hunting. Will he give the House, and in particular Labour Members—400 of whom have voted to ban fox hunting in the past—a guarantee that we are going to get rid of it before the next general election, possibly in the current parliamentary year, and certainly before the Tories appoint another...

Local Communities (26 Apr 2002)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...have to have the right to roam, whether or not they have a job. I am pleased that we passed the legislation securing that right. We shall be able to see the little foxes roaming all over the place, because we will ban hunting—there will be no third way, will there? No. We shall be able to see all the little foxes in Chatsworth park—we shall be able to trample all over the Duke...

Hunting With Dogs (12 Jun 2000)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...that, given the vagaries of the private Members' Bill system, in the many years that we have been around in this place on a Friday, there was never a cat in hell's chance of getting a Bill banning hunting with dogs through the House of Commons? Will he also confirm that, at the election, the Labour party made a distinct promise to give the Government and its Members an opportunity to vote...

Business of the House (12 Mar 1998)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Is my right hon. Friend aware that tomorrow may well be the last day for debate on the private Member's Bill to abolish fox hunting? Is she aware that, on our side this week, many hon. Members got excited about the prospect of sitting all night to get the National Minimum Wage Bill through? They would quite happily not call for Government time, but sit after 10 o'clock for, say, two or three...

Coal Areas (Housing) (16 Jul 1997)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...wrong with that, and it gave an element of democracy, but it went when the pit shut. The Tories—who are not here now, although they were in the Chamber for the previous debate about fox hunting—should understand that this debate is also about rural life. Each of those areas is a village. We are talking not about towns, but about tiny little communities. The Tory Government...

Standards in Public Life (18 Jul 1995)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...with Tory Ministers for the remaining jobs. I have a suggestion: the quarantine will snap. So it would be better for Tory Ministers to do now what the right hon. Member for Wirral, West (Mr. Hunt) has already done—he got out early to pick up the plum jobs.

Points of Order (25 Jan 1995)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...whether they have informed you about their declaration last night on television regarding the new laws on Sunday opening hours, especially in view of the fact that we know that the Tories have been hunting for money and that the brewers are very happy about the proposals? I should like to know why no statement has been made, because I want to ask the Ministers concerned how much the...

Pensions Review (8 Jun 1992)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...ha'pennies to rub together? I have some advice for the Secretary of State regarding the banks. Will he institute the legislation that was used against the miners' funds in 1984, when that money was hunted down in Swiss, Luxembourg and Irish banks? If it was good enough for the National Union of Mineworkers, it should be good enough for Maxwell. The Secretary of State should get the money...

Points of Order (27 Feb 1992)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...not. It has come out of the taxpayer's pocket. The letter states that the Government have great concern about animal welfare, but they did not think about that when we debated the Bill to get rid of fox hunting. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food talks about furry animals: he was stuffing a dead furry animal down his son's throat on the telly.

The Environment (8 Nov 1991)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...and have it placed on record. It would also enable the people who work in the industrial plants, including Coalite, to present statements that are not influenced by people being victimised or witch-hunted. A public inquiry would allay many fears. The Minister should discuss the matter with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and with anyone else in Departments that are...