Results 1-17 of 17 for hunting speaker:Ann Winterton

Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 32 (10 May 2007)

Ann Winterton: ...of my speech is earth-shattering. There are obvious risks to that approach. Any time limit is an entirely arbitrary construct and takes no account of individual circumstances. As my noble Friend Lord Hunt said in the other place, that approach creates a kind of cliff-edge, as opposed to a lobster pot, in that a patient has to be discharged irrespective of whether he can manage safely in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Constitutional Affairs: Hunting Act (30 Nov 2004)

Ann Winterton: What assessment he has made of the likely impact of the Hunting Act 2004 on the future work load of the Court Service.

Oral Answers to Questions — Constitutional Affairs: Hunting Act (30 Nov 2004)

Ann Winterton: During debates on the Hunting Bill, now an Act, the Minister in charge assured the House that the costs would be the same after the Act was passed as they were before. Can the hon. Gentleman confirm that? What is the view of his Department on the matter?

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Fallen Stock (20 May 2004)

Ann Winterton: Does the Minister recognise that any future ban on hunting with hounds would reduce the options available to farmers? Will he acknowledge that in 2003, 143 hunt kennels processed 500,000 carcases, free to local farmers? There will be further problems if that is not recognised and if there is a ban. Will he also tell the House whether the EU—

Hunting with Dogs (21 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: ...Can the Minister take powers, on a whim, to make regulations under the new "necessity" test, in the Burns report, of "cruelty and utility"—"vermin control"—which will, at a stroke, maim hunting as we have known it, except for a few foot packs in some upland areas? Hunting would then only be tolerated under licence, with rights of appeal given to anti-hunt organisations if a...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: ...be very popular. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) repeated a point that was made many times: there is no compelling public interest in introducing a ban on hunting and, in his view, it should not be part of the criminal law. My hon. Friend the Member for North Thanet (Mr. Gale) made his usual passionate speech. As the voice of Wales in this debate,...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: It is generous of the hon. Gentleman to give way. Is he aware of what veterinary surgeons say? More than 300 have written to Members of Parliament to support hunting. They do not agree that stress is placed on the animal. They say that the process is perfectly natural and that death is very quick. Their arguments run counter to the hon. Gentleman's.

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: Earlier this afternoon I was rather too keen to get on with the debate in order to share my own experience with the House. I have never spoken in a debate on hunting before, and I thought it important to set out my stall. It was when I was a 17-year-old at grammar school, which will be another red rag to the bulls opposite, that I was first invited to become joint master of the South...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: The hon. Gentleman refers to the people whom I have met through hunting. In fact, I come from a farming background and have lived in the countryside all my life, so not all the people I know hunt, although most of them support field and country sports. Like him, I do not believe that any group should break the law of this land. I believe in the rule of law. To most rational people, it seems...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: ...obligation to control pests such as foxes. That control should include both dispersal and culling, but never the extermination of an indigenous species. Following the voluntary suspension of hunting owing to foot and mouth last spring—this will answer the question put by the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mrs. Fitzsimons)—including suspension of the lambing call service, farmers...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: ...difficulty from an animal welfare perspective. There are welfare implications for all legal methods of managing the fox population and, on welfare grounds, no clear case has been made to separate hunting from other forms of control as a method that should be banned. The question that has to be answered by those who seek to ban hunting is: what alternative method would cause less suffering,...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: My hon. Friend is right. Hunting and other field and country sports are very important to the rural economy, and a ban would have truly devastating knock-on effects on rural businesses, such as feed merchants, blacksmiths, veterinary practices, the horse industry, and village pubs and hotels, among others. Even a former Minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food— the...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: ...gained Royal Assent, it would surely be foolhardy to follow in those flawed footsteps. However, I recognise with a certain amount of sadness that tonight's votes will reflect not the arguments for hunting put before the House in the debate, but perhaps the prejudices of the past and the imagined prejudices of the present. The opportunity to destroy yet another institution of our great...

Orders of the Day — Business of the House (18 Mar 2002)

Mrs Ann Winterton: When I was first taken hunting as a child by my mother, I never expected that one day I would be standing at the Dispatch Box to defend the right of the individual to take part in one of the greatest of our traditions. Hunting and ponies definitely played a part in my eventually standing for Parliament, because it was while I was a member of South Staffordshire pony club that I met my hon....

Public Bill Committee: Animal Health Bill: Clause 1 - Foot-and-Mouth Disease (29 Nov 2001)

Mrs Ann Winterton: ...—she would feel differently. The issue, for people whose view of field and country sports is different from mine, is how to contain the fox population without wiping it out. Over the years, hunting has ensured—

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting (13 Nov 2001)

Mrs Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she will publish the veterinary risk assessment on hunting with hounds; and when she will lift the restrictions placed on hunting with hounds as a consequence of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease.

New clause 1: Fox CONTROL IN NATIONAL PARKS (6 Mar 1998)

Mrs Ann Winterton: My hon. Friend's point goes to the heart of the argument. In stag hunting, the stag is brought to bay and can be shot cleanly because it is standing still. I spoke to some of my fanners last weekend, and we discussed the shooting of foxes by rifles. They said that they thought that less than a third could be killed cleanly. That is probably too high an estimate. What about the other two...