Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:41 pm on 15 September 2004.

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Photo of James Gray James Gray Conservative, North Wiltshire 4:41, 15 September 2004

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. That happened when hunting was banned because of foot and mouth disease. Farmers had to kill an enormous number of foxes by shooting them. The National Farmers Union tells me that, last year, foxes killed 340,000 lambs. Surely a farmer will react to that by killing as many foxes as possible. We believe that the most humane and selective way of doing that is by using dogs.