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Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Desmoulins Whorl Snails (6 Nov 2006)

Gregory Barker: ...snail population of the completion of the A34 Newbury bypass; (4) what the Desmoulins Whorl snail population was in the sites of special scientific interest at (a) Rack Marsh, (b) Boxford, (c) Hunts Green and (d) Bagnor Island in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Climate Change (12 Oct 2006)

Gregory Barker: ...in that respect, but we must not lose our single most important focus on taking action now to avert the need to take adaptation measures later. My hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt), in a short, but pithy speech, was quite right to say that there is no excuse for the Government not to bring in a climate change Bill. My hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne),...

Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs (25 Nov 2004)

Mr Gregory Barker: ...to protect the nation's rural heritage" into a Gracious Speech that comes just four days after the Government used the Parliament Acts to enact a Bill that will sound the death knell of fox hunting throughout England and Wales truly had a deep sense of irony. I particularly want to turn my mind to transport in the next few minutes, especially to three key issues that very strongly affect...

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

Mr Gregory Barker: I rise to speak with a great deal of sadness. The amendment to give a stay execution for 18 months to the noble sport of fox hunting signifies the reintroduction of a Bill that is vicious, illiberal and wholly unjustifiable. The Bill is an affront to every citizen who values liberty and tolerance. I am certain that, when all the arguments have been laid to rest and historians look back at...

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

Mr Gregory Barker: ...those people add to the diversity of our society. So why is the Labour party blind to the fact that a rich element of our island's culture is being obliterated? The small minority involved in fox hunting has rights too. I understand that Labour Members may disapprove of fox hunting, and that they find it distasteful. However much their views may be based on incorrect facts or a lack of...

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

Mr Gregory Barker: Anyone familiar with these sorts of events knows perfectly well that they are nothing like hunting and do not provide a substitute for it. They are something entirely different from hunting and the hon. Gentleman obviously has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.

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

Mr Gregory Barker: ...—a retired racehorse—[Laughter.] I do not know why that is funny. I happen to love horses—obviously Labour Members do not. I am lucky to have a retired racehorse, with which I hunt. He would not make a comfortable hack. When there is no use for horses like that, there may be no permanent use for them in riding schools.

Business of the House (9 Sep 2004)

Mr Gregory Barker: Will the Leader of the House admit that, far from a ban on hunting being the overwhelming view of the House or of this Parliament, when the vote was last taken in the Chamber the majority of the 659 Members of Parliament were either absent or voted against? There was no absolute majority of Members for a ban. Does he accept that only a minority voted for a ban, and that there is substantial...

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

Mr Gregory Barker: ...over from the old Labour class-war politics, will the Minister inform the House what the scientific basis is for introducing such a Bill? What scientific research has he seen that informs him that hunting with dogs has a greater adverse effect on the welfare of the fox than shooting, trapping, snaring or poisoning foxes, which will remain perfectly legal under his proposals?

Written Answers — Defence: Osama Bin Laden (29 Mar 2004)

Mr Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British troops are involved in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden; what progress has been made in the search; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Police (14 Jul 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: It is unacceptable for the Home Secretary to say that he will not enter the hunting debate when he—

Hunting Bill: New Clause 1 — Compensation (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: I want to draw the Minister back to his monstrous and misleading statement about dogs in the hunting community. We all know that every year, tens of thousands of much-loved and cared for family pets are taken to the vets to have their lives ended unnaturally—to be destroyed because it is judged to be the most humane thing to do. Will the Minister go out into Parliament Square and...

Hunting Bill: New Clause 1 — Compensation (9 Jul 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: ...when it comes to country people. Does my hon. Friend agree that financial compensation alone will not be enough to cover the distress of those who work with the hounds? The kennel men and other hunt servants who know all the hounds by name and have nurtured them and brought them up since they were puppies will have to stand by and watch them be slaughtered en masse. The blood of those...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting (Re-committed) Bill: Clause 1 - Hunting wild mammals with dogs (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: Now that we are moving on to the amendments that delete references to registered hunting, it must be admitted that the changes alter the nature of the Bill, which now completely drops any pretence of referring to the evidence taken in Portcullis house last summer, and ignores the consultation process that the Minister painstakingly went through, even if he paid little heed to what was said....

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

Mr Gregory Barker: .... He mentioned a little earlier that the use of high-powered rifles was his preferred form of controlling foxes, but the most widespread form of control in the countryside, in the absence of fox hunting, would be the use of shotguns. Has he taken into account the welfare report that was published post-Burns? It is the first detailed research into wounding rates, which we all agreed was...

Business of the House (5 Jun 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: ...seriously and whether any internal inquiry has been set up to look for those rogue elements? If they truly exist, that would be very serious indeed. When does he expect that internal mole hunt to report? Will he allow the publication of the conclusions reached by that report? Is SIS taking his allegations seriously at all?

Business of the House (5 Jun 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: Is there an internal mole hunt?

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 51 - Transitional arrangements (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: ...two months could fall during July and August, when many people are away on holiday and many Government Departments, offices, universities and research establishments are not functioning properly. Hunts and individuals may be hampered in gaining access to the information that they require. That is the time when many hunting people can actually get away, so when the Bill gets Royal Assent,...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 51 - Transitional arrangements (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: .... They will not have filled in application forms like this one or collated great cases. It is downright unfair. There has long been a suspicion that the system has been rigged against those who hunt, irrespective of the arguments or the force of evidence. This is yet another example of how not only the premise of the legislation is biased against people who hunt and people in the...

Public Bill Committee: Hunting Bill: Clause 51 - Transitional arrangements (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Gregory Barker: At what point will the hunting public be able to see the forms and applications that they will have to fill in?