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Hedgehog Conservation

Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 10 November 2015, in the House of Commons, led by Oliver Colvile. The answering member was Rory Stewart.
Agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
602 cc345-358 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Oliver Colvile | 602 c351 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me an Adjournment debate on hedgehog habitats and the...

Jim Shannon | 602 c351 (Link to this contribution)

I was interested to hear the hon. Gentleman set the scene for us, but there are more than 100 pri...


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Oliver Colvile | 602 c351 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, I am happy to agree, but I am talking about, and campaigning for, the hedgehog.

Perhap...

Martin Docherty-Hughes | 602 c351 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that hedgehogs are a devolved issue to be decided on by the Scottis...

Oliver Colvile | 602 c352 (Link to this contribution)

I am told that in the Western Isles, there are no hedgehogs at all.

My relationship with th...

Gavin Williamson | 602 c352 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend recognise the importance of using our gardens as a vital habitat for hedgehog...

Oliver Colvile | 602 c352 (Link to this contribution)

I will be making a similar point in a moment.

Hedgehogs seem to thrive in urban and suburba...

Rebecca Pow | 602 c352 (Link to this contribution)

Another fascinating fact about hedgehogs, which my hon. Friend might be aware of, is that they ru...

Oliver Colvile | 602 c352 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend has been reading my speech or has had prior notice of it.

Hedgehogs need to ...

Julian Knight | 602 c352 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing this debate. Does he agree that the advent of specific ...

Oliver Colvile | 602 cc353-4 (Link to this contribution)

I am delighted to hear about the area in my hon. Friend’s constituency, and I think it important ...

Lisa Cameron | 602 c354 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this debate. I am just reading on the British Hedge...

Oliver Colvile | 602 c354 (Link to this contribution)

Everybody else seems to have had notice of my speech before I ended up making it.

The progr...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 602 cc354-5 (Link to this contribution)

I think I had better confirm, lest my customary silence be taken as negative, that I will of cour...

Rory Stewart | 602 c355 (Link to this contribution)

Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Tom Tugendhat | 602 c355 (Link to this contribution)

In every happy home is a hedgehog, as the Pashtuns would say. I urge my hon. Friend to encourage ...

Rory Stewart | 602 cc355-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful for that Pushtun intervention, but my hon. Friend refers, of course, to the As...

Rebecca Pow | 602 c356 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Minister agree that the successful survival of our hedgehog population is a direct refle...

Rory Stewart | 602 cc356-7 (Link to this contribution)

That is an important point. The hedgehog is a generalist species, and traditionally we have not p...

Patrick Grady | 602 c357 (Link to this contribution)

On the point about the hedgehog in the western isles, we have established that hedgehogs are a de...

Rory Stewart | 602 cc357-8 (Link to this contribution)

This is an important reminder that things that matter enormously to our civilisation, our society...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 602 c358 (Link to this contribution)

I paused because I wanted to encourage some more positive noises for the Minister, who has just m...

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