Results 1-8 of 8 for hunting speaker:Desmond Turner

Forensic Science (20 Apr 2006)

Desmond Turner: .... Are they simply on a stamp-collecting exercise, whereby any young person who comes to their attention automatically goes on to the database, so that they have lots of reference material when hunting for villains? If so, I agree with the hon. Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant). He said that if we want the police to do that, Parliament should be the body that decides it, not the...

Medical Practitioners and Dentists (Professional Negligence Insurance) (20 May 2003)

Dr Desmond Turner: ...not within a prescribed period after the making of a request by the Health Authority . . . satisfy the Health Authority that he holds approved indemnity cover." In moving the clause in another place, the noble Lord Hunt, speaking for the Government, said: "At the moment neither doctors nor dentists are required legally to maintain professional indemnity cover. Although those employed in...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Dr Desmond Turner: ...hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) to dress up in ridiculous coats, get up on their horses and gallop around the country—even with dogs—as much as they want, as long as they do not hunt and kill foxes. They can have drag hunts—if they want to break their necks by jumping over ditches, that is fine. That is an individual liberty that I will defend on their behalf....

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Dr Desmond Turner: ...for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs inquiry, which is relevant to the issues in the Bill of utility and cruelty. On the question of utility, much of the defence that has been put up for hunting has concerned controlling the numbers of foxes. A fairly definitive piece of work by Baker and Harris was published in Nature, the most reputable journal in its field, which studied the fox...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Dr Desmond Turner: I am afraid that those who have undertaken systematic studies would disagree with the hon. Gentleman. They would conclude that the most potent factor in controlling numbers of foxes is neither hunting nor lamping but availability of food. Whatever control methods are used, the effect on the fox population is minimal—it can only account for a small percentage of it. I seem to remember...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Dr Desmond Turner: No, I have given way enough. On the issue of cruelty, I shall quote what some people said to the DEFRA inquiry. One of the most telling quotations was from Huntsman Jones of the David Davies foxhounds, an upland hunt in Wales. Mr. Jones was asked the following question by a representative of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: Xwhat modifications of activity are...

Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill: Hunting Beginning in the Republic of Ireland (13 Mar 1998)

Dr Desmond Turner: Would the hon. Gentleman support the reintroduction of boar hunting in Northern Ireland?

Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health (15 May 1997)

Dr Desmond Turner: ...you want around your feet when an election is called is the candidate. Let him go." Two days later, the election was called, and the banner headline appeared in the local Evening Argus: Tory MP hunts Loch Ness monster". He lost by seven votes. That is an election strategy which I should like to commend to Opposition Members for future use. My constituency is fascinating. My right hon....