Results 1-20 of 29 for hunting speaker:David Taylor

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (29 Oct 2009) has video

David Taylor: ...large-scale survey indicating that 62 per cent. of Conservative voters, 77 per cent. of Liberal Democrat voters and 83 per cent. of Labour voters strongly support the existing legislative ban on hunting with dogs? Does he intend to review the legislation in light of the survey?

Animal Husbandry (Welfare Standards) (11 Oct 2006)

David Taylor: ...them and how it is enforced must all underpin any claims we might have to being a civilised, compassionate and caring nation. The Government have a good track record, with such legislation as the Hunting Act 2004 and the groundbreaking Animal Welfare Bill, which is teetering on the brink of the statute book. I am also pleased that we have a wide range of powerful and persuasive animal...

Written Answers — Home Department: Hunting (13 Sep 2006)

David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been prosecuted under the provisions of the Hunting Act 2004 since November 2005.

Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill (10 Jan 2006)

David Taylor: ...and cruel reliance on tethering animals such as horses and dogs. North-West Leicestershire is a former mining area that is now at the heart of the national forest and close to several former fox hunting groups. As I expected, equine activity is expanding at a rapid rate in the wake of the ban on fox hunting. There are increasing numbers of livery yards in my constituency and throughout...

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr David Taylor: While it could turn out that wildlife management will lie at the heart of any rationalisation of hunting on the basis of utility, does the hon. Gentleman agree that the test of cruelty is likely to fail, for the reasons elucidated by Lord Burns—that is, because there is too little information about the comparative welfare implications of the different ways to kill foxes? Is not that the...

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

Mr David Taylor: The Hunting Bill debacle resembles a table-tennis match crossed with a Ben Travers farce. There are constitutional issues that urgently require legislative attention. Does the Minister agree that we now need a new Parliament Act that would, inter alia, codify the Salisbury doctrine on the powers of delay of a reformed House of Lords, setting reasonable time limits for the passage of Bills...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr David Taylor: ...of that to me in the bar afterwards. On the economics that he is currently considering, does he accept that most assessors suggest that when equestrian activity is detached from the taint of hunting, more people will want to ride and be involved, and the number of jobs will therefore grow by more than the 600 or 700 direct jobs that may be lost when the hunts disappear?

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr David Taylor: Does the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the best assessment of the number of foxes who die or are killed is approximately 250,000 and that 15,000—around 6 per cent.—are killed by the hunt? It cannot therefore be called an effective method of controlling the fox population. More foxes die in road accidents.

Hunting Bill: New Clause 1 — Compensation (9 Jul 2003)

Mr David Taylor: ...in equestrian activity and those employed in the equestrian industry. Is it not possible that that rate of growth would accelerate if equestrian activities were decoupled from the stigma of hunting?

Hunting Bill: New Clause 1 — Compensation (9 Jul 2003)

Mr David Taylor: As part of the fact finding for an earlier, similar Bill, I visited the Quorn hunt kennels at Kirby Bellars in the constituency of the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan). In saying that hunt servants know, and could do, no other job, the hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) is being rather condescending and patronising about their skills. Of course they could do other...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr David Taylor: Is it not also the case that apart from shooting hounds that are too old, hunts shoot at an early age hounds that do not show a great inclination to hunt?

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr David Taylor: As someone who represents a constituency in which fox hunting takes place on a reasonable scale, can the hon. Gentleman tell me whether regulation and registration can work? How can hunts control that small but dark underbelly of people who are involved in some of the cruellest practices of all, such as terrier cubbing and so on?

Rural Economy (16 Oct 2002)

Mr David Taylor: ...moves on from equestrian activities, may I tell him that a farrier came to see me at my advice session on Saturday because he was concerned, not surprisingly, about the impact of a possible ban on hunting? Nevertheless, I put it to him that the probable disappearance of hunting is likely to be associated with an expansion in equestrian activity when the stigma of it being linked to hunting...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Mr David Taylor: ...with a strong, stable economy, and a ban on tobacco advertising. I suggest that the hon. Gentleman reads the speech of the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) in the fox hunting debate which, mutatis mutandis, applies to our discussion. There is no inconsistency in wanting jobs but not at any price—not at the cost of health, or animal welfare in that case.

Hospice Movement (29 Nov 2001)

Mr David Taylor: ...Harold's capacity was latterly 12 beds, supplemented only by a handful of other voluntary hospices Unfortunately, that situation of insufficient beds and sites is replicated all over the country. Lord Hunt said recently that the NHS was mapping existing services to identify and tackle geographical inequalities. I welcome that, but it must not be an excuse for delay nor a disincentive to...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting Bill (17 Jan 2001)

Mr David Taylor: I have conducted a large survey in north-west Leicestershire, a hunting county, which shows that in the rural areas there is still sizeable support for the abolition of hunting, but that 25 per cent. of those polled have been attracted by the middle way option, which has been expounded this evening. Thus the poll to which my hon. Friend refers may not be entirely up to date.

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (17 Jan 2001)

Mr David Taylor: I have lived in a village in the Atherstone hunt territory all my life, and there is not quite the divide that the hon. Gentleman is suggesting in the attitudes of urban and rural residents. I conducted a large-scale survey in my constituency, with a response rate approaching 50 per cent, which shows that there is a majority for the third option presented to us tonight, albeit much smaller...

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill: Hunting with Dogs: Prohibition (17 Jan 2001)

Mr David Taylor: ...the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maples), who has now left the Chamber, that on the spectrum of animal cruelty in our society there are many activities that inflict much greater harm than hunting, including the killing of 4 million animals in experimentation and the breeding of 800 million broiler chickens in unimaginable circumstances of dire cruelty?

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

Mr David Taylor: ...animal welfare, my first choice or my highest priority for legislative time would not have been this measure. The Burns report confirms a figure that has been widely cited for some years—that hunts are responsible for killing about 20,000 foxes a year. People with skills in mental arithmetic will be able to multiply that figure by 200; the answer is 4 million. That is the number of...

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

Mr David Taylor: A large-scale survey that I undertook in November 1997, in a part of my constituency in which the Quorn hunts, established precisely that. A significant majority of rural residents opposed hunting, and supported the Bill presented by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster).