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Scottish Parliament: Question Time — Scottish Executive — Social Work and Social Care (Careers): Dead Horses (Disposal) (7 Nov 2002)

David Mundell: Alas, horses do die. Is the minister aware that with the introduction of the ban on burial, which comes into force in April, the closure of the Dumfriesshire hunt and the lack of rendering facilities, it will not be possible to dispose of a horse carcase within Dumfries and Galloway? Will he undertake to include horses in any uplift scheme that is introduced for cattle and sheep carcases,...

Scottish Parliament: Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill (13 Feb 2002)

David Mundell: ...clear about the bill. It is such a pig's ear that Tony Blair will run a mile from it. After the mess that has been made today, it is absolutely clear that we will not see action on banning hunting in England.

Scottish Parliament: Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill (13 Feb 2002)

David Mundell: We have not banned hunting. That is where Tommy Sheridan and the other supporters of the bill have been conned. The bill will still allow people to go out in their red coats, to shout their tally-hos and to smear themselves in whatever they like. They will still be allowed to go out drag hunting. If a fox comes along, there is nothing to prevent those people from killing it. The bill's...

Scottish Parliament: Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill (13 Feb 2002)

David Mundell: ...the bill's supporters believe that the bill will do what they say that it will, there is not a toff—as some people would describe such a person—who cannot now go to Northumberland and hunt. Even better, there is not a toff who cannot go to Ireland, which positively wants people to hunt there. It is interesting that, in his discussions with the Irish Minister for Tourism, Sport...

Scottish Parliament: Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3: After section 6 (13 Feb 2002)

David Mundell: I am not familiar with that, because, as Jim Wallace knows, I was not in the House of Commons then—and I probably never will be. Amendment 84 is just like the bill: the pretence that fox hunting is to be banned is the same as the pretence that any compensation is on offer to anybody who will be directly affected by the bill. There will be no such compensation. The amendment is a con. I...

Scottish Parliament: Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3: Section 1G — Exception: injured or diseased mammals (13 Feb 2002)

David Mundell: Mr McAllion has clearly not read section 1(1). If hunters intending to go out on a drag hunt come across a fox and their dogs chase the fox, no crime has been committed.

Scottish Parliament: Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3: Section 1G — Exception: injured or diseased mammals (13 Feb 2002)

David Mundell: Section 1(1), which is about intention, has not been amended. If, when people who are out drag hunting on horseback, wearing red coats and shouting "Tally-ho"—the whole works—come across a fox and their dogs chase the fox, that is not a crime. Members have been conned into voting for a bill that they think bans hunting and into taking out the provisions that relate to legitimate...

Scottish Parliament: Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3: After section 1 (13 Feb 2002)

David Mundell: ...be set out explicitly in the bill. Parliament clearly does not want to ban dog walking, but some supporters of the bill—who, for some inexplicable reason, did not include a ban on mounted hunting in the bill—are concerned that a person could go out on a horse with their dog alongside them and claim that they were walking the dog. That, they say, would be a legitimate defence to...

Scottish Parliament: Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3: Section 1 — Prohibition and offences (13 Feb 2002)

David Mundell: ...stage 2 consideration in committee, it was clear that—contrary to my expectations and those of others—there was no intent to introduce a specific crime of participating in a mounted fox hunt. Indeed, somewhat contrary to what could be said to be the will of Parliament as expressed on 19 September, the bill contains no specific prohibition of mounted activities and makes no...

Scottish Parliament: Scotland's Economy (10 Jan 2002)

David Mundell: I will take no lectures on that. I know that Rhona Brankin is not that interested in whether people lose their jobs, because when we have debated fox hunting in the chamber, she and her colleagues have said that those affected will get jobs in the textile industry. Had she looked, she would know that that industry no longer exists in the Borders. I am sure that Tavish Scott was up this...