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Written Answers — House of Lords: Climate Change (4 Feb 2009)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 14 January (WA 143—44), which recent material published in peer-reviewed academic journals they are referring to.

Climate Change (15 Jul 2008)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, I have no idea to whom the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, might have been referring. In so far as there may be a slight difference between surface temperatures over sea and those over land, is the Minister aware that it is generally accepted that those over sea are more likely to be accurate because temperatures over land are complicated by what is known as the "urban heat island" effect?...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Hunting Bills (10 Apr 2001)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the statement by Lord Falconer of Thoroton on 12 March (H.L. Deb., col. 675) that there have been 22 Bills in the last 20 years in relation to hunting, what was the (a) title, (b) date and House of introduction, and (c) subject matter, of each Bill.

Hunting Bill (26 Mar 2001)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: I shall be brief, partly by not making any Committee stage points and partly because the true Committee stage will be the recommittal stage that we have been promised. I have never hunted and am far too old now to start. Such knowledge as I have of fox hunting derives from the fact that parts of the Leicestershire constituency I used to represent in another place were hunted over by the...

Hunting Bill (12 Mar 2001)

Lord Lawson of Blaby: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord. I shall be brief. While he is making these fine distinctions or arguing that they do not exist, does he believe that there is a distinction between hunting and hunting for rabbits, which are excluded from the Bill, and with fishing and shooting? What does he have to say about that?