Results 1-20 of 38 for hunting speaker:David Winnick

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

Mr David Winnick: ...not amount to a challenge to those who want to break the law? If the House agrees that these provisions should become law by end of this week, people who oppose what I hope will be a total ban on hunting will have an opportunity shortly in a general election. If they disagree with what Parliament has so decided, they can vote Conservative, so democracy will be decided in the usual way....

Business of the House (28 Oct 2004)

Mr David Winnick: ...for what happened to him, would not it be useful if Ministers made it clear that no amount of intimidation, hooliganism and thuggery will stop the Government upholding the House's decision to bring hunting with dogs to an end? Since time is getting short, when will the Parliament Act be used? When will we demonstrate that we will not allow a veto by the House of Lords, as happened on a...

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

Mr David Winnick: Does my hon. Friend agree that the Parliament Act as it exists should be used where appropriate? If on two occasions the House of Commons, by overwhelming majorities, has decided that hunting with dogs should finally come to an end, it is not up to the House of Lords to continue to veto our decision. If the Lords decide, as clearly they are going to do, to oppose what the House of Commons has...

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

Mr David Winnick: ...far, there can be no doubt what we expect. I am sure that this Bill will be on the statue book by the end of this parliamentary Session, which is absolutely essential. The controversy over banning hunting with dogs is understandable. Reference has been made to bull baiting, the banning of which caused controversy when it was debated in 1800—at the very height, incidentally, of a war...

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

Mr David Winnick: ...that the Countryside Alliance believed that it would never see this day. I understand that—there were times during the past 12 to 18 months when I thought that I, and those who wish to see hunting with dogs come to an end, would never see this day, too. There were times—I say this without hesitation—when it seemed that the Government were not going to act. That was the...

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr David Winnick: I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement on hunting, but is he aware that if there is any criticism by most people in the country it is simply about why we have taken so long to do this. Is not a constitutional point involved, as the decisions of the House of Commons, certainly on a free vote, cannot be treated with contempt time and again by the unelected Chamber? If the Tories are...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (8 Sep 2004)

Mr David Winnick: Is my right hon. Friend aware that, if the reports that action will be taken within this fortnight to bring into law a hunting with dogs Bill are correct, it will be warmly welcomed on this side of the House? Is it not totally unacceptable that the House of Lords should have some permanent veto on a measure that has been carried with such a large majority in the House of Commons? Hunting with...

Business of the House (22 Jul 2004)

Mr David Winnick: ...virtually everyone in the parliamentary Labour party—I imagine that 90 per cent. of us would regard it as such—by telling us that the Parliament Act will be used to make sure that the Hunting Bill becomes law? Is he aware that we will continue to raise the issue at every opportunity in the House of Commons, as I am doing now, in the parliamentary Labour party and outside until...

Business of the House (15 Jul 2004)

Mr David Winnick: On the Hunting Bill, is not the position that, if the Parliament Acts are to be used, as the large majority of Labour MPs want, the measure rejected by the Lords will have to be sent back to the Lords one month before the end of the present Session? Is my right hon. Friend aware that not disclosing when the Parliament Act will be used, or if it is to be used at all, will lead to growing...

Business of the House (8 Jul 2004)

Mr David Winnick: Is my right hon. Friend aware of the growing concern and anxiety among Labour MPs that the hunting Bill will not become law and will miss its chance, as it did in the last Session? As time is very short indeed, and bearing in mind the possible date of the next election, can my right hon. Friend give a firm promise that the Parliament Act will be used and that the Bill will become law and that...

Business of the House (17 Jun 2004)

Mr David Winnick: ...my right hon. Friend mean precisely when he said to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) "when the time is opportune" with regard to the use of the Parliament Act to make sure that hunting with dogs comes finally to an end? Can he be more precise? Does he understand that the question now is whether we will have the courage to end this barbaric sport once and for all? That...

European Council/Libya (29 Mar 2004)

Mr David Winnick: Most would support the Prime Minister's visit to Gaddafi for the reasons that he stated. However, is it not the case that the Libyan regime is brutal, denies all forms of rights and hunts down dissidents, even when they have fled abroad? Did my right hon. Friend discuss human rights with Gaddafi, and what was Gaddafi's response?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (7 Jan 2004)

Mr David Winnick: Should the Government not act on an issue in respect of which the vast majority of Labour MPs and people in the country agree—that hunting with dogs should be banned, that the Parliament Act should be used and that on that matter, the Lords majority should be told where to get off? I suggest that the Prime Minister act on the issue, because it is right to end that barbaric sport once...

Business of the House (18 Dec 2003)

Mr David Winnick: ...agree that a very nice Christmas box for Labour Members and for the majority of people in the country would have been an announcement that the Parliament Acts would be used to ensure that the Hunting Bill became law in the lifetime of this Parliament? Is he aware that the Countryside Alliance has produced playing cards with the 50 most dedicated opponents of fox hunting on them? I am...

Business of the House (18 Sep 2003)

Mr David Winnick: Can my right hon. Friend confirm that when the Hunting Bill is significantly changed in the Lords, as it undoubtedly will be, the Parliament Act will definitely be used, so that we can have a ban on fox hunting in the lifetime of this Parliament? Is it not essential that the will of the elected House triumphs over a totally unrepresentative House of Lords, in which 92 hereditaries...

House of Lords (Exclusion of Hereditary Peers) (8 Jul 2003)

Mr David Winnick: ...to sit in the House of Lords. I want to make it clear that I have no personal antagonism towards the remaining peers; there is no reason why I should. On some occasions, on measures such as hunting with dogs, we know that hereditary peers will vote in a certain way, but my concern today is the basic principle that, in a democracy—and certainly in the 21st century—no one should...

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

Mr David Winnick: Is it not a fact that, by a large majority on a free vote, the House of Commons expressed the views of the large majority of the people of Britain, who want a total ban on fox hunting? Is it not a fact that the majority of MPs now want this to become law as soon as possible?

Hunting Bill: New Clause 13 — Registered Hunting: Absolute Bans: Deer, Hares, Foxes and Terrierwork (30 Jun 2003)

Mr David Winnick: Is not it interesting that a poll commissioned by the Countryside Alliance in March 2002 found that about 25 per cent. of people said that the Government should drop the hunting proposals, but 48 per cent. felt that the Government should insist on a ban? Even among those in the countryside, there is undoubtedly a majority in favour of what we want to be accomplished.

Hunting Bill: New Clause 13 — Registered Hunting: Absolute Bans: Deer, Hares, Foxes and Terrierwork (30 Jun 2003)

Mr David Winnick: ...will have the opportunity to discuss and to make a decision on this issue? Will the Conservative party itself be pledged to repealing the measure that we are now debating and to bringing back fox hunting?

Hunting Bill: New Clause 13 — Registered Hunting: Absolute Bans: Deer, Hares, Foxes and Terrierwork (30 Jun 2003)

Mr David Winnick: Is the hon. Gentleman's logic that, because there are always other important issues, the House of Commons should be deprived of the opportunity to discuss hunting with dogs?