Results 1-20 of 45 for hunting speaker:Jack Straw

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Plants (9 Sep 2009)

Jack Straw: ...for cut flowers in comparison to an earlier answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Garston (Maria Eagle), Minister of State for Justice, to the hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) on 2 March 2009, Official Report, column 1257W. This is due to the earlier figure being based on an annual budget figure and the current figure being based on actual yearly...

Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Visits Abroad (16 Mar 2009)

Jack Straw: ...in question. Shahid Malik MP Shahid Malik MP has not undertaken any foreign travel in a ministerial capacity since accepting the ministerial position at the MoJ in October 2008. Lord Hunt Lord Hunt did not undertake any foreign travel in a ministerial capacity during 2008, prior to leaving in October. Bridget Prentice MP 4 February Visit to Berlin to meet...

Business of the House: House of Lords Reform (19 Jul 2007) has video

Jack Straw: ...in the Conservative or Liberal Democrat manifestos to a free vote. Tomorrow in the other place Lord Steel's private Member's Bill on Lords reform will have its Second Reading. My noble Friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath will expand on our response when he speaks in that debate; suffice it now to say that the Bill does not contain the comprehensive reform that is the clear will of this House....

Business of the House (11 Jan 2007)

Jack Straw: I note my right hon. Friend's request. I will do my best. Whoever else was to blame for the many hours that we spent on hunting with dogs, it was not me, because I was in a small minority on our side of those who were not terribly enthusiastic about that measure.

Written Answers — Leader of the House: September Sittings (30 Oct 2006)

Jack Straw: ...8.40 One (programme motion): 313 Tuesday 14 September Opposition Day (Lib Dem) (Higher Education and Older Women) 8.30 Four: 441; 442; 432; 423 Wednesday 15 September Remaining Stages: Hunting Bill 11.18 Eight: 468; 477; 467; 466; 522; 357; 337; 494 Thursday 16 September Lords Amendments: Employment Relations Bill; Government adjournment (HIV/AIDS) 7.00 None There were...

Zimbabwe (1 Jul 2004)

Mr Jack Straw: Yes, we could do with a bit of fox hunting in the backstreets of Lambeth, given the large number of foxes there. Leaving that issue aside—

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Bosnia-Herzegovina (6 Feb 2004)

Mr Jack Straw: ...to see the residual NATO presence run defence outreach activities such as defence reform and Partnership for Peace programmes. We also believe it should retain some operational activities, such as hunting for indicted war criminals and counter-terrorist operations. Bosnia provides an opportunity for NATO and the EU to put their commitment to co-operation into practice in the first major...

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Mr Jack Straw: As it happens, the hon. Gentleman asks the wrong person about hunting; I dealt with it when I was Home Secretary—I am happily released from that fate—but it is not something that has ever lathered me up. The hon. Gentleman is now tilting at windmills. The House properly and rightly asked for a substantive resolution as soon as we had a Security Council resolution. We have one. We...

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Mr Jack Straw: ...action. In addition, I have to tell the hon. Gentleman what the Liberals are doing. I thought of resisting the temptation of saying that this follows a pattern of behaviour in which, to pick up a hunting analogy, the Liberals try to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. At the same time as they support UN resolution 1441—I hope that they will do when it comes to a vote at 10...

International Terrorism (14 Sep 2001)

Mr Jack Straw: ...". We admire the calm determination and dignity with which America's leaders and the American people have reacted to the calamity. We have offered them our full backing for their efforts to hunt down and hold to account the terrorists and those who harbour them. There must be no refuge. The attacks were not just on the United States; they were on humanity, on civilisation and on us all....

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

Mr Jack Straw: ...has not been determined principally by the Government; rather, it contains three separate and mutually exclusive options suggested by three different interest groups. As the House is aware, hunting is an issue that arouses great concern and strong passions among many, although by no means all, people. The volumes of newsprint and the fact that the Home Office has received more than...

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

Mr Jack Straw: ...the people of Wales when they voted for the devolution settlement. The right hon. Gentleman is right to say that the Burns report referred to differences in Wales and differences in the pattern of hunting between upland and lowland areas, which apply not only to Wales. At present, one of the three schemes set out in the Bill would not distinguish between the different circumstances that...

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

Mr Jack Straw: ...I hope, factual description of what each of the three schedules would do. Clause 1 and schedule 1 were proposed by the Countryside Alliance and are based on the principle of the self-regulation of hunting. The Independent Supervisory Authority on Hunting, known as ISAH, was set up at the end of last year. Its members are the chairmen of the various hunting associations, such as the...

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

Mr Jack Straw: ...hand. I am happy for my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary to deal with that in his winding-up speech. From memory, I believe that ACPO thinks that the likely impact on police resources of the ban on hunting proposed in schedule 3 will probably not be any greater than the current impact that results from the disorder caused by those who seek to interfere with hunting. The general approach is...

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

Mr Jack Straw: No, I am sorry, but I will not give way. The House knows that I condemn utterly the disorder that is created in an attempt to disrupt hunting, which is a lawful activity. If the House and the other place decide to accept schedule 3 and clause 3 and they become law, the House, across parties, will take a similar view of any other illegality.

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

Mr Jack Straw: ...the House that if it picks one of the options, we will introduce an amendment to provide that that option should take effect one year after Royal Assent. That will, we feel, give those involved in hunting an adequate opportunity to make whatever arrangements they feel are necessary, whichever option is chosen. If the middle way option is chosen, and schedule 2 emerges as the chosen option,...

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

Mr Jack Straw: ...their point of view and debate this most contentious of issues in a sensible and rational fashion. This is not an issue that follows traditional party lines. There are supporters and opponents of hunting—and supporters and opponents of clause 2—in all the main parties. No one demonstrates that point better than the shadow Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Maidstone and...

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

Mr Jack Straw: ...of his feeling and I respect him for it. Opinions differ very much, and it is for the House and the other place to reach a balanced judgment. Although, as was illustrated by that last exchange, hunting is an issue on which some hold passionate views, as it happens I am not one of those people. During my 21 years in the House I have never voted on any Bill on hunting, but as I am the...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr Jack Straw: ...purpose. We have had many fewer Bills than in similar Sessions that I recall, certainly in the 1980s. Let me turn to the subject of the debate, which is the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales, Command Paper 4763. The issue of hunting has aroused great controversy over much of the past 20 years. Sixteen Bills have been presented to the House in...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr Jack Straw: ...report has been welcomed by those most closely involved in the issue. The two organisations that led on giving evidence to the inquiry, Deadline 2000, the umbrella group for those seeking a ban on hunting, and the Countryside Alliance, which favours hunting, have both been positive in their response to the report. I understand that Deadline 2000 regards the report as thorough and cogent,...