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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 Apr 2008) has video

Paddy Tipping: After years of discussion, Parliament decided that fox hunting should be banned. Is not the priority now to ensure that the legislation is implemented effectively, and not to promise that it will be repealed at some date in the future?

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

Paddy Tipping: ...see this throughout our discussions—is that it provides a vehicle for debate and change. I have been very interested in the recent discussions on shooting, which has been mentioned. Unlike hunting with hounds, people—even implacable opponents, such as the British Association for Shooting and Conservation and the League Against Cruel Sports—are prepared to talk about...

Hunting Act 2004 (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Paddy Tipping: Is not the sensible way forward for hunts to use whatever time is available to wind up their activities or make alternative provision in a thoughtful and sensible way?

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting (8 Sep 2004)

Mr Paddy Tipping: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on the Hunting Bill.

Written Answers — Home Department: Firearms (29 Mar 2004)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...the same certificate; (2) what representations he has received calling for (a) .22 gallery rifles to be licensed and (b) the introduction of (i) individual testing in the use of firearms and (ii) hunting examinations before the issue of a firearms certificate in England and Wales; (3) what studies his Department has conducted into the difference in the numbers of fatalities and injuries...

Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4) (1 Jul 2003)

Mr Paddy Tipping: The House voted last night with a majority of more than 200, and the established will of the Commons is for a total ban on hunting. Does my right hon. Friend agree that we now need to ensure that this matter is finally resolved, and that the voice of the Commons prevails?

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 6 - Deer (11 Feb 2003)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...Wiltshire. It may surprise him, after his lengthy speech, to learn that I agree with some of his points. For example, he said that there should be no outright ban under clause 6 but that deer hunting should be considered under the registration process in part 2. Although I agree with some of his opening remarks, I disagree profoundly with the process that he suggests for resolving the...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 6 - Deer (11 Feb 2003)

Mr Paddy Tipping: I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Minister will respond to that, and I have in mind the kind of response that he will make. The hon. Gentleman's conclusion that deer hunting should not be banned outright in clause 6 has some validity, but I draw a slightly different conclusion. I, too, think that it odd that deer hunting is banned outright, but I wonder why clause 6 does not also ban...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 6 - Deer (11 Feb 2003)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...Parliament that has been expressed on several occasions. Clause 6 has little chance of emerging from the Commons process, because many colleagues agree that the clause should argue for a ban on foxhunting and deer hunting. I hope that we will have the opportunity to enable that to be done as the Bill proceeds through the House.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill (11 Feb 2003)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...the motion and I hope that my right hon. Friend the Minister will be able to confirm my recollection that with the two extra days, the Committee stage will be substantially longer than any previous hunting Bill. Alun Michael: I believe that my hon. Friend is correct Question put and agreed to. Schedule 1, as amended, agreed to.

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 29 - Amendment of Automatic conditions (30 Jan 2003)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...out in clauses 27 and 28. For example, it would be within his power to remove the requirement for a representative of an animal welfare group to accompany the registered individual in the course of hunting, to remove the requirement for insurance or to remove the condition of consent to hunt on the land. All those things are to be done by order, and there is always some anxiety in...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 8 - Tests for registration: utility and (21 Jan 2003)

Mr Paddy Tipping: I just wonder whether Ann Summers parties, which provoke the imagination, would give rise to hunting with dogs.

Business of the House (25 May 2000)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...that the measure did fall, and the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Maclean) said that the measure did not go forward as a punishment for letting Back Benchers play around with hunting. That seems to me an example of the legitimate but silly games that give the House a very bad name.

Business of the House (25 May 2000)

Mr Paddy Tipping: My hon. Friend has pursued this issue over many years. I have a feeling that he is trying to hunt me down as his prey. I shall not negotiate with him over the Dispatch Box, but I will say that I shall not anticipate when the Countryside and Rights of Way Bill will return on Report, nor when the Burns inquiry report will be published. That report will be received and published shortly, and the...

Listening to the Countryside (3 Mar 1998)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...extremely grateful to the chief executive of the Countryside Alliance for telling me what the march was about. In a press release on 2 March, he said that the march could not have happened without hunting. More than 70 percent of the coaches and trains bringing people to London were organised by the hunting community. That is not top of the agenda in the countryside that I know and love....