Results 1-16 of 16 for hunting speaker:George Young

Business of the House (12 Jun 2003)

Sir George Young: Further to the question from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) about the Hunting Bill, over the next week or two, the Leader of House will be finalising the shape of next year's legislative programme. Against the background of the shambles this year, with unprecedented delays between the Committee stage and Report stage of Bills, with some Bills at short notice being...

Public Services (21 Jun 2001)

Sir George Young: ...Shepherd's Bush (Mr. Soley) about Parliament. If health and education are to be two of the themes for this Session, it is odd that the Bill banning tobacco advertising is out and the Bill banning hunting is in. The hunting Bill is hardly central to the delivery of better public services, and it is totally irrelevant to the needs of rural areas, which are trying to recover from the worst...

Business of the House (15 Feb 2001)

Sir George Young: ...she is that, by the end of March, the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill, the Social Security Contributions (Share Options) Bill, the Health and Social Care Bill, the Homes Bill and the Hunting Bill will have completed their passage through Parliament?

Health and Social Care Bill (Programme)(No.2): Consideration of Lords Amendments and further messages from the Lords (14 Feb 2001)

Sir George Young: ...a time. The House cannot do justice to the sheer volume of legislation with which it is confronted. Within their programme, the Government have mismanaged matters because this Bill comes after the Hunting Bill. It is clear that the Hunting Bill will not reach the statute book, but it is conceivable that this Bill could. If the Government had put it ahead of the Hunting Bill, we would not...

Electoral Reform (17 Jan 2001)

Sir George Young: ...on PR will be broken. The question is appropriate today because I woke up to a Home Office Minister boasting on the "Today" programme of how the Government were carrying out their commitment on hunting. The debate produced one other quotation that is relevant to our debate this morning. Winding up the debate, the Under-Secretary said: If we are to have change--and ultimately that will be,...

House of Lords Reform (19 Jun 2000)

Sir George Young: .... It is shameful that we have had to wait five months for this debate, and even after that interval, the Government have little idea of what to do next. However, in the case of the Burns report on hunting, they knew exactly how to take it forward even before it had reported. On Lords reform, the Prime Minister told us last week that we would have to wait for Labour's next manifesto to...

House of Lords Reform (19 Jun 2000)

Sir George Young: ..., we get the same impression of "de haut en bas." In paragraph 11, he pleads for the second Chamber not to be a home for yet another group of professional politicians. Later, he asks us to avoid a hunting ground for another tribe of professional politicians. The issue of election goes to the heart of the debate. Two principal reasons are put forward against elections for the upper House....

Business of the House (8 Jun 2000)

Sir George Young: ...debate, so that they can dispel the widely held view that they wish that that issue would disappear. Yesterday, the Prime Minister trailed a statement by the Home Secretary on the Burns report on hunting. Can the right hon. Lady confirm that there will be an oral statement, and tell us on which day it will be made? There is mounting interest, not least among spending Ministers, in the...

Orders of the Day — The Economy (24 Nov 1999)

Sir George Young: ...Queen's Speech appeal to Labour's vested interests without facing up to some of the real issues confronting the countryside. The decline of the rural economy is not addressed by attacking those who hunt foxes. We enjoyed what I believe was the first post-ministerial speech of the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, North (Mr. Henderson). He wrongly accused my party of being remote from...

Business of the House (4 Nov 1999)

Sir George Young: ...Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report, which shows that taxes are rising faster here than anywhere else in Europe? Will the Home Secretary be making a statement on fox hunting to clarify the confusion there? Will the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food be bringing us up to date with progress in lifting the ban on British beef? We will have completed this...

Business of the House (23 Feb 1999)

Sir George Young: ...tragic murder of Stephen Lawrence. Can the Leader of the House find time to debate the important issues raised by Sir William Macpherson and initiate a debate, which will, I hope, avoid any witch hunt of Sir Paul Condon? On that subject, can she guarantee that the House will be told the outcome of the leak inquiry? What has happened to the Home Secretary's plans to publish the draft...

Greater London Council (General Powers) (No. 2) Bill (13 May 1982)

Sir George Young: ...the premises to be closed on Sundays. The local government Bill also makes provision for local authorities to insert restrictions of that kind. My hon. Friend the Member for Ravensbourne (Mr. Hunt) drew attention to the relationship between high rates and unemployment. He referred to the problem facing many Londoners in that accommodation that would previously have been available to them...

London (2 May 1980)

Sir George Young: .... in Hackney during the past year. That is true, but between March 1974 and May 1979 it rose by 127 per cent. The hon. Gentleman was followed by my hon. Friend the Member for Ravens-bourne (Mr. Hunt), who made a constructive and balanced speech, outlining the positive steps taken by this Government. In particular, he spoke about the quality of life and about tourists, whose custom the...

Orders of the Day — Paul Brown (30 Nov 1979)

Sir George Young: ...an inquiry into the functioning of a social services committee in so far as those functions relate to children, and that is the limit of its scope. As my hon. Friend the Member for Wirral (Mr. Hunt) said, this request was turned down by the previous Administration. However, I am deeply concerned about what both hon. Members have said and about the continuing public concern. From what the...

Greater London (12 Jul 1976)

Sir George Young: ...here to listen to his earthy common sense on the question of housing finance and the wishes of the ordinary people in London. We are indebted to my hon. Friend the Member for Ravensbourne (Mr. Hunt) both for his choice of subject and for the knowledgeable and moderate way in which he introduced it. The problem in London is basically the same as that in other inner cities. It is that of...

Orders of the Day — Food Shops (Take-Away Meals) (28 Feb 1975)

Sir George Young: ...'s fingers. However, the fumes from the process are singularly malodorous. One resident living above such a shop wrote to his Member of Parliament—my hon. Friend the Member for Ravensbourne (Mr. Hunt)—as follows: We also have the smell of frying in most of our rooms. The smell comes up through the floor near the walls and becomes very strong late at night. On one occasion this...