Results 1-20 of 32 for hunting speaker:Henry Bellingham

Public Bill Committee: Legal Services Bill [Lords]: Schedule 16 (26 Jun 2007)

Henry Bellingham: ...We are especially grateful to the Conservative Front Bench, in tabling these technical amendments, for their help to achieve this.” The SRA is particularly grateful to Lord Kingsland and Lord Hunt. There is only one outstanding issue. I am grateful that the Government have listened, because these are very technical and complicated amendments. As I have mentioned, we are effectively...

Disabled People (4 May 2006)

Henry Bellingham: ...a good record on disability and disabled people. The previous Government had an excellent record, as was pointed out by the shadow Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt). The late right hon. Nick Scott was a quite superb Minister for the disabled. Indeed, as my hon. Friend also pointed out, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) was...

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bird Control (17 Mar 2005)

Mr Henry Bellingham: .... Although the Minister climbed down in the face of substantial pressure from countryside bodies, does not this ugly little episode reveal beyond doubt that when it comes to shooting, just as with hunting, the Government are totally ignorant and cannot be trusted?

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

Mr Henry Bellingham: Does it concern my hon. Friend that a number of Norfolk farmers have said that they will withdraw permission for the MOD to train on their land as a protest against the Hunting Act 2004? Does he think that it would be much better if the Secretary of State had joined the Prime Minister and his Minister of State in the Lobby to vote for the licensing proposal?

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: The Minister talks about the past 10 years, but I seem to remember that in the vote in 1996, there was a majority of 11 in favour of keeping hunting.

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: Does my hon. Friend agree that if the Government were not seeking compromise they would long ago have stopped hunting on Ministry of Defence and Forestry Commission land, as they easily could have done without any legislation?

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: ...Brown), whom it is a pleasure to follow, said that monumental and staggering levels of ignorance have been displayed today. There has been talk of barbarism and unacceptable animal cruelty, but all hunting takes place on private land and the hunts have permission from landowners and farmers. Are Labour Members really saying that those landowners and farmers would give the hunters...

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: My hon. Friend is right and has a great deal of knowledge on the subject. One could add the case of Exmoor to his example. The hunting of stags on Exmoor maintains a balance in the population. Farmers do not go out and shoot stags on Exmoor. However, if hunting is banned, they will shoot those stags because they can get quite a lot of money for the carcase. I believe the Countryside Alliance...

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: ...who have been most vociferous and vocal in maintaining that habitat, and in protecting the countryside and preventing the spread of concrete and planning. I want to say a word or two about drag hunting because I believe that I am the only person in the House who has been a master of a pack of drag hounds. I therefore know a bit about drag hunting. Far fewer hounds are used in a drag pack...

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: ...us that he wants to heal those divisions, to stand up for minorities and to protect minority interests. It is very sad that this House is following in the footsteps of the last Government to ban hunting completely—the Scottish Parliament did not introduce a complete ban—which was the Nazi Government in 1935. That Government persecuted minorities; this Government are also...

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: ...Friend consider this scenario? If the local pack of hounds in my constituency, the West Norfolk foxhounds, decided to rebrand itself as the West Norfolk rabbit hounds, it would be able to carry on hunting in a pack and killing rabbits. Is it any less cruel to kill a rabbit than to kill a hare or a fox? Can my hon. Friend explain this ridiculous contradiction?

Employment Relations Bill: New Clause 3 — Appeals (29 Mar 2004)

Mr Henry Bellingham: ...In his customary charming way, he has explained why he does not like the amendment and feels that it is technically undesirable. I forgot to declare my interest as a barrister he mentioned a happy hunting ground for lawyers, and I take on board his point. I reject his criticism of the High Court, which is made up of a large number of judges with huge expertise. In the light of what the...

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Hunting (10 Dec 2003)

Mr Henry Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate her Department has made of the (a) number of small businesses which are dependent on hunting for their survival and (b) number of jobs that would be lost in the event of a ban on hunting with hounds.

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way in such charming fashion. I want to bring him back to hare coursing. Schedule 1, on exempt hunting, states: "The hunting of a hare which has been shot is exempt". May I therefore take it that coursing can continue if an armed person is present who shoots the hare first?

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: I am grateful to my hon. Friend. My local hunt, the West Norfolk, made it clear that if hunting were banned it would have to sell the attached kennels and cottages because the raison d'être for those houses would go. On drag hunting, does my hon. Friend agree that much of the hunting in this country is carried out by beagle or basset hounds, and obviously one cannot hunt a drag on foot,...

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: My hon. Friend will be aware that not only the farmers who make use of the fallen stock service provided by hunts but a lot of individual pony and horse owners will be hit hard. The other day, I received a letter from a constituent whose pony died, after which the hunt came to remove the dead animal. What will happen to such people? Many ponies and horses will simply not be collected.

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

Mr Henry Bellingham: ...Surely the response to the point made by the hon. Member for Walsall, North (David Winnick) is that if we knock on 100 doors in our constituency, we might well find that 50 people would be against hunting and support a ban. However, perhaps only one out of those 100 people would tell us that it is a top 20 issue that should be a Government priority while so many other things are going on.

Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill (24 Feb 2003)

Mr Henry Bellingham: ...Fund and also receive funding from many other . . . sources. As a result, businesses do not necessarily know that they have received funding from the Fund." That is bizarre. Should the DTI be hunting round the country for high-tech success stories? Should the Department be in the business of trying to back technology sector winners, when we have one of the most sophisticated and vibrant...

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr Henry Bellingham: My sister recently had to have her pony put down, and it was the west Norfolk hunt that did so and removed the carcass to its kennels. Who would have taken that carcass away had the hunt not been there? The council would not have done it, and it certainly could not have been buried.

Business of the House (21 Mar 2002)

Mr Henry Bellingham: ...against that country's Opposition, the time is right to have a full day's debate—in Government time—on this important issue? Surely it would have been better to debate that rather than hunting, for example, last Monday. Does he agree that more targeted sanctions are needed, such as banning all flights by Zimbabwean airlines?