Results 1-20 of 39 for hunting speaker:Huw Irranca-Davies

Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: International Whaling Commission (29 Oct 2009) has video

Huw Irranca-Davies: On 20 October, British officials met the Japanese Government and expressed continued concern about Japanese dolphin hunts, among other things. I wrote personally to the Japanese Fisheries Minister last week on a range of issues, including whaling, and expressed the British public's concern about the hunting of dolphins, urging Japan to prohibit the killing and capture of dolphins and other...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Clause 291 — The coastal access duty (26 Oct 2009) has video

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...of negligence when... approving proposals" for a coastal long-distance route or giving direction for the variation of such proposals The matter was debated extensively in the other place. As Lord Hunt of King's Heath noted, we doubt that a court would impose such a duty of care, and the aim of clause 300 is to clarify the legal position. Let us be frank. We recognise that in places the...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Nature Conservation: Crime (21 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...Total Badger Persecution 128 Bat Persecution 39 CITES Caviar 0 CITES Ivory 3 CITES Other 12 CITES Tortoises 4 CITES Traditional Medicines 0 Finch Trapping 1 Fox Hunting 21 Fresh Water Pearl Mussels 5 Habitat Destruction 66 Hare Coursing 98 Nest Destruction/Disturbance 117 Other 739 Poaching—Deer 36 Poaching—Fish 53...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 291 (7 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...that we introduced in the Bill in the other place. The CROW Act definition of interest in land includes rights of common, as well as grazing and sporting rights. I reiterate the comments that Lord Hunt made on Report in the other place about those interests being particularly relevant to the land types involved in the CROW Act. CROW land—open country, including mountain, moor, heath...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 291 (7 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...148; That includes representations by certain organisations specified in regulations. The Secretary of State must take representations into account when making a determination on the route. As Lord Hunt said in the other place, we expect to include in the list the Country Land and Business Association and the National Farmers Union, and we are open to including other organisations, such as...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 197 (7 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: .... Members will be aware of. The Government listened carefully to their concerns on the Floor of that House and I have met both Baronesses separately to discuss their concerns. My noble Friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath indicated on Report that the Government would be prepared to bring forward amendments to the Bill in this House, and we are trying  to make good on that commitment today....

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 153 (7 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...drivers. In broad terms, IFCAs’ key duty requires them to have regard to all aspects of sustainable development in carrying out their functions. In the other place, my noble Friend Lord Hunt recognised that an explicit reference to sustainable development in the clause would aid consistency and clarity and reinforce the fact that the Government take the sustainable development duty...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 23 (2 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...and on Report in the other place by Lord Taylor of Holbeach and Earl Cathcart, have been debated extensively. Given the importance of the arguments made in support of those amendments, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath undertook to take the matter away to see whether we could come up with alternative amendments that would reflect appropriately the MMO’s role in relation to the IPC. It might be...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 (2 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...contribute to sustainable development. Climate change is one of the four agreed priorities in the UK sustainable development strategy, “Securing the future”, published in May 2006. As Lord Hunt said during a debate on the issue during Committee in the other place on 21 January 2009, managing the different pressures on the marine area will be a challenging task, and one that will...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Schedule 1 (2 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: The chief scientific adviser will have a panel to work with that reaches outwards from the MMO. Ultimately, the MMO will determine the exact nature of the chief scientific adviser’s role. Lord Hunt said that it would be a very senior role—the fact of the appointment indicates its importance. The MMO chief scientific adviser will not sit in a bunker in Tyneside. He will have to make...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Schedule 1 (2 Jul 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...those remarks. This is not just an ask for the MMO. It is for all the coastal partnerships, local authorities and others to get stuck in, and the Bill allows them to do that. At the time, Lord Hunt referred to “the vision for coastal management that my department has published recently entitled A Strategy for Promoting an Integrated Approach to the Management of Coastal Areas in...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 44 (30 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...particularly when it is underpinned by those principles. On amendment 1, as I said on Second Reading, we already have a strong objective for the Marine Management Organisation. In the other place, Lord Hunt went into great detail about why we feel that amendments such as this, which require the MMO to further rather than to make a contribution to sustainable development, are not...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 117 (30 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...a heritage protection Bill being brought forward as soon as parliamentary time allows. Meanwhile, we have reached a very good conclusion on heritage in this Bill, and I am  very thankful to Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Lord Davies of Oldham and other peers for all their hard work on this issue.

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 117 (30 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...the science involved in each designation decision. We are absolutely and entirely in agreement with the hon. Member for Newbury on the importance of the science, and I echo the comments of Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. Science is absolutely fundamental in determining where we will designate sites for MCZs. The drafting of clause 117 (1) ensures that scientific criteria form the basis of site...

Public Bill Committee: Marine and Coastal Access Bill [Lords]: Clause 44 (30 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...plans, but that would be increasingly undermined if the amendment were accepted. That issue was considered extensively in the other place and I stand by the arguments made there by my noble Friend Lord Hunt of Kings Heath. There are many different definitions of sustainable development, and there have been quite a few attempts to define what it is. I do not believe that the absence of a...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Civil Service Agencies: Boats (9 Jun 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...duties. Royal Navy Fishery Protection Vessels Class of ship Total number of operational days at sea Number of vessels available for use Cost (£000) 2006-07 River 620 3 Hunt 225 4 Total days 845 — 6,199 2007-08 River 609 3 Hunt 187 3 Total days 796 — 6,056 2008-09 River 700 3 ...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Air Pollution: Greater London (5 May 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: Lord Hunt met with the Mayor of London on 22 January 2009 to discuss how DEFRA and the Greater London Authority could work together to ensure air quality limit values for particulate matter (PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) were met in London. Following this meeting, officials in DEFRA, the Greater London Authority and Transport for London have met to discuss potential measures and these...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Air Quality (2 Apr 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: The Mayor of London is responsible for working towards DEFRA's national air quality objectives in London. My noble Friend, Lord Hunt of King's Heath, met with the Mayor on 22 January to discuss progress, and my officials have had regular meetings with counterparts in the Greater London Authority to discuss measures including the low emissions zone. The Government are committed to working...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Litter: NGOs (26 Mar 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: My noble Friend Lord Hunt of King's Heath, who leads on these issues, met last week with representatives of ENCAMS (also known as Keep Britain Tidy) DEFRA's delivery partner which campaigns on litter, and provides research and technical advice to Government. He addressed an audience of local authority officers and other land managers at the Cleaner, Safer, Greener Network Conference in...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Animal Welfare (10 Mar 2009)

Huw Irranca-Davies: ...role in the conservation and protection of cetaceans worldwide. We were able to defeat a Danish proposal for an annual take of 10 humpback whales in their Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling (ASW) hunt, thereby saving the needless slaughter of 50 humpbacks in the period 2008-12. We also made telling interventions on whale welfare; scientific whaling; the plight of the Western Pacific Gray Whale...