Westminster hall adjournment debate on the red squirrel population.
Red Squirrel Population
Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 28 June 2006,
in the House of Commons,
led by Frank Cook.
The answering
member was Barry Gardiner.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
448 c103-18WH 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Barry Gardiner | 448 c114WH (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for those remarks. In fact, the Commission has signalled a revie...
Bill Wiggin | 448 c114WH (Link to this contribution)
Can the Minister therefore give us an assurance today that he, as a Minister and if he is not in pos...
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Barry Gardiner | 448 c114-5WH (Link to this contribution)
What I can say to the hon. Gentleman is that we shall do absolutely all that we can to ensure that t...
Barry Gardiner | 448 c115-6WH (Link to this contribution)
Research is under way to identify likely grey squirrel incursion corridors. It will provide a scient...
Peter Atkinson | 448 c116WH (Link to this contribution)
At the risk of a further 500 letters, I have to say that I have actually tasted grey squirrel—they e...
Barry Gardiner | 448 c116WH (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman began the debate by saying that a decade ago 500 of his constituents had written ...
Peter Atkinson | 448 c116WH (Link to this contribution)
They were not my constituents.
Barry Gardiner | 448 c116-8WH (Link to this contribution)
Five hundred people from across the country wrote to him saying that he was a cruel and evil man. I ...
Lord Beith | 448 c104WH (Link to this contribution)
I apologise if I am unable to stay for the whole debate, but it might be helpful if those who wrote ...
Lord Beith | 448 c108WH (Link to this contribution)
I commend the hon. Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) on his persistence, coming back to the subject 1...
Peter Atkinson | 448 c104-8WH (Link to this contribution)
I agree with my right hon. neighbour, whose constituency, like mine, has a large number of red squir...
Peter Atkinson | 448 c109WH (Link to this contribution)
It is the other way round. The red squirrel likes conifers. They appear to prosper in conifers, perh...
Andrew Turner | 448 c109WH (Link to this contribution)
I had not intended to make a speech in this debate, but I see that there might be a moment or two to...
Chris Huhne | 448 c110-1WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) on securing the debate. He has been involve...
Andrew Turner | 448 c109WH (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend. That probably explains why I—or, rather, my dog—have found them in ...
Bill Wiggin | 448 c111-3WH (Link to this contribution)
I, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) on securing this important ...
Barry Gardiner | 448 c113WH (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate the hon. Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) on securing this debate on the red squirrel...
Peter Atkinson | 448 c113WH (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the Minister for that explanation. There is a feeling that if the red squirrel were...
Andrew Turner | 448 c103WH (Link to this contribution)
Only a loose definition puts the Isle of Wight in the south-east, but on the island one does not hav...
Peter Atkinson | 448 c103-4WH (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for attending the debate, because, as I well know, the Isle of Wight...
Speaker | 448 c103WH (Link to this contribution)
It might help right hon. and hon. Members if I inform them that this morning I exercised Mr. Speaker...
Peter Atkinson | 448 c103WH (Link to this contribution)
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the debate, because it gives us an opportunity to revisit th...
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