Results 1-9 of 9 for hunting speaker:Chris Bryant

Orders of the Day: New Clause 3 — Assessment of limited capability for work (9 Jan 2007)

Chris Bryant: ...of deprivation, which want to get back up off their knees. They will only be able to do so if more people are able to get off benefits and into work. The hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt), in a splendid speech, made an important point in response to the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) when he mentioned the possibility that the Government's system of assessment...

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] — House of Lords Reform (20 Jun 2006)

Chris Bryant: ...for our constitution. There were those who argued that one could not use the first Parliament Act to enforce the second one. In particular, that position was advocated by those who felt that the Hunting Act 2004 should not have been subjected to the Parliament Act in the way that it was because of reliance on the first Parliament Act to enforce the second one. The issue has been resolved...

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

Mr Chris Bryant: ...way of killing foxes in my constituency is by lamping them, but I remember sitting through the three days of hearings in Portcullis House and being told by a large number of people who supported hunting that it would be far crueller to kill foxes by shooting or lamping. If that is the case, surely the registration system, as advocated by my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore, would fall...

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

Mr Chris Bryant: .... When he was elected in a by-election not very long ago, many of us had campaigned on his behalf, and were rather bewildered suddenly to find that we had supported somebody who backed registered hunting. [Interruption.]

Public Bill Committee: Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]: Clause 253 - Commencement (26 Oct 2004)

Mr Chris Bryant: ...be immoral and wrong, but that does not necessarily mean that the law should make them illegal. I happen to believe—[Interruption.] The hon. Member for Rutland and Melton is trying to bring hunting into this issue because he is a little ferret really. He should be dismembered for trying to bring in other issues, which I am sure you would not want to be introduced, Mr. Cook. The...

Hunting Bill (Procedure) (15 Sep 2004)

Mr Chris Bryant: ...the Parliament Act, is that many people in the country who do not follow every jot and tittle of what we do in Parliament see us vote successively with significant majorities in favour of a ban on hunting, yet still it never comes to pass, which undermines parliamentary democracy?

House of Lords (Reform) (9 Jun 2004)

Mr Chris Bryant: ...Disestablishment Bill in 1914, and the second was the opposition to the change in the age of consent. Now the Lords want to ensure that we do not use the Parliament Acts to push through a ban on hunting. We know that the second Chamber will always be reactionary while it is staffed solely by people who have been appointed. It is also largely representative of the south-east of England and...

Whitsun Adjournment (27 May 2004)

Mr Chris Bryant: ...think that he is quite right. What makes people wonder whether our parliamentary system is right is when five votes in this Chamber provide enormous majorities in favour of a complete ban on fox hunting while the Chamber at the other end of the Corridor fails to go through the proper processes, or actively obstructs the processes, and overturns that decision. In those circumstances people...

Sittings of the House (20 Nov 2003)

Mr Chris Bryant: ...that for the most part, the Parliament Act has had to be used on issues on which there had been free votes in the House but the Lords decided to throw the legislation out? A classic example is the Hunting Bill. Should the Lords not bow down and listen to the will of the democratically elected Members of the Commons?