Results 1-16 of 16 for hunting speaker:David Tredinnick

Food Supplements Directive (25 Jan 2005)

Mr David Tredinnick: That is the worry about the new European agency: that it will, if I may use an old hunting term, "roll the lady over". [Laughter.] I will withdraw that remark, Mr. Deputy Speaker. That makes two. I was trying to say—[Laughter.] I see that I am getting into a little difficulty. Perhaps I should move on. Following my own mistake, I shall consider a classic one that the Government made...

Food Supplements Directive (20 Jan 2003)

Mr David Tredinnick: ...for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton), and industry experts on 17 June to discuss the problems that the Department became aware of what was going on. The only reason why the Minister and Lord Hunt agreed to meet us then was that the next day they were going before Standing Committee C and they were going to get a right grilling. In the Minister's defence, she had just taken over the...

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 115 - Variation of order (6 Dec 2001)

Mr David Tredinnick: We must not prolong proceedings, but is my hon. Friend familiar with fox hunting terminology? We have ''find'' and ''found'', which is the sort of language that might be used at the Master of Fox Hounds Association dinner.

Opposition Day: Foot and Mouth Disease (21 Mar 2001)

Mr David Tredinnick: On a related matter, the disease was diagnosed at Higham Lane in my constituency on Sunday. Some heifers with blisters were shot on Monday, but 250 cows were still alive yesterday. The Atherstone hunt kennels are across the road. The hunt's servants are qualified as slaughtermen and could be deployed to kill the animals. Does my hon. Friend agree that political correctness is preventing those...

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr David Tredinnick: I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will touch on drag hunting, because the report says that as a result of a ban there will not be an upsurge in drag hunting: it will not change materially or experience any major increase. As a former master of drag hounds, I learned to hunt with drag hounds, not fox hounds. The argument deployed by those opposed to fox hunting that there could easily be a...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Tredinnick: I have seen foxes killed in hunting, and I have to say to the hon. Gentleman that foxhounds' instincts are to go for the neck, and foxes are normally killed in that way. There may be occasional aberrations, but they are a tiny percentage and most foxes are killed very quickly.

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Tredinnick: I have always looked up to my right hon. and learned Friend. I was the master of the Oxford drag hunt, and I think that he would have made a distinguished quarry. The difference between fox hunting and drag-hunting is very important and germane to the debate.

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Tredinnick: ...who were used to regular meets, to allow the hounds to run over their land. As my right hon. and learned Friend has pointed out, broadly speaking farmers want to support an organisation, namely fox hunting, that exists for their benefit—to reduce the fox population, thereby protecting their livestock.

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Tredinnick: As my right hon. and learned Friend will recall, having chased across the countryside as a student at Oxford, in drag-hunting someone lays a line across country and hounds then follow it. They tend to follow the dragline much faster than they would ever follow the scent of a fox, because foxes are inclined to stop and check. Drag-hunts tend to follow a line of perhaps 30 or 40 jumps that have...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Tredinnick: ...right hon. and learned Friend has dealt sufficiently with the question of employment. Having heard what the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire (Mr. Taylor) said, I must point out that drag-hunts tend not to employ many people. The hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster) should note that. Drag-hunts usually use six couple—in other words, 12—hounds, or dogs, as they are...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Hunting With Dogs) Bill (7 Apr 2000)

Mr David Tredinnick: I would not want my right hon. and learned Friend to be in danger of misleading the House, but the fact is that he has not really explained that fox hunts normally set a very high priority on killing foxes who are wounded. He will recall that the Oxford university draghounds were kept at Stratton Audley, at the Bicester and Whaddon kennels. I remember going there as master and discussing that...

Countryside and Rights of Way Bill (20 Mar 2000)

Mr David Tredinnick: ...attended the countryside march and rally in London. If ever there was an example of country people expressing their worries about the future of their way of life, that was it. It was not just about hunting. One of the major bones of contention will be clause 21(6), about when landowners can exclude the public and whether they can do so on weekends, Christmas day and other holidays. The...

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Agricultural Property (17 Feb 1992)

Mr David Tredinnick: Is my right hon. Friend aware that that reply will be welcomed in many rural communities, who feel that the campaign against hunting has been wildly misrepresentative and that fox hunting is the most humane way to control the fox population in the country?

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr David Tredinnick: My hon. Friend should be aware that two votes have been taken in Leicestershire county council on whether hunting should be allowed on county council land. In 1982, the county council narrowly voted by a majority of four to allow such hunting. Another vote was taken after the Quorn incident and a decisive vote of 47 to 34—a majority of 13—found in favour of maintaining hunting...

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr David Tredinnick: May I point out that the Quorn hunt in Leicestershire was given many coverts and woods specifically to save them from extinction? The Quorn meets and discusses how to protect that habitat. I think that there is a sub-committee specifically devoted to environmental protection of the woods in its hunt country.

Orders of the Day — Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill (14 Feb 1992)

Mr David Tredinnick: ...to an incident that occurred a couple of weeks ago in Ratby in my constituency, where an entire chicken coop was wiped out by a fox. In Leicestershire, the natural recourse is to turn to the fox hunt, which has always controlled foxes.