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

Mr Colin Challen: ...far stronger if those people who are about to become unemployed had no suitable alternative that is similar to their existing employment. Clearly, in most cases they have such an alternative: drag hunting. I would argue that more jobs will be created in drag hunting than ever existed in fox hunting.

Points of Order (3 Jul 2003)

Mr Colin Challen: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. During the debate on the Hunting Bill on Monday afternoon, the official Opposition spokesman—he was pressed several times on this—said that the Hunting Bill was a waste of parliamentary time. In fact, he also said: "It is a total and utter waste of time."—[ Official Report, 30 June 2003; Vol. 408, c. 74.] Yet we read in the Financial...

Hunting With Dogs (18 Mar 2002)

Mr Colin Challen: Given how well the hon. Lady knows the countryside people she has mixed with through hunting, will she denounce those in the hunting lobby who have said that if the House passes a law outlawing their activity, they will break the law?

Written Answers — Home Department: Hunting (Policing Costs) (14 Jan 2002)

Mr Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the average annual costs incurred policing (a) fox hunting, (b) deer hunting and (c) hare coursing events were in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Foxhunting (26 Nov 2001)

Mr Colin Challen: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the impact on the fox population of the ban on hunting during the foot and mouth crisis.