Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill

My noble friend talks about loss of income. One of the points put forward by proponents of the Bi...

My Lords, I totally agree with my noble friend on that point. One also needs to bear in mind that...

I am extremely grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I entirely agree with him that this mu...

My noble friend is absolutely right, and I am sure that the source of that misinformation will no...

My Lords, I commend the noble Baroness, Lady Fookes, for bringing the Bill to the House and champ...

I understand what the noble Baroness is saying, but is she really implying that those people, suc...

I would love to see a true balance of gender in contributions in your Lordships’ House, as I woul...

My Lords, I express my support for the amendment moved by the noble Earl, Lord Caithness. I suppo...

My Lords, I believe that most reasonable people, and certainly most noble Lords taking part today...

Before the noble Lord moves on, will he also reflect on one point? We have indeed, as he rightly ...

I am grateful to my noble friend. He is absolutely right: all those countries that we have all ha...

My Lords, as we move through the early stages of this debate, I think it is important, first, tha...

My Lords, I must take issue with the noble Lord, Lord Weir, because I do not think that these ame...

My Lords, I am sorry that I was not able to speak at Second Reading; I found out that it was sche...

My Lords, funnily enough, that is a very good note on which to start. I will come to the specific...

My Lords, I can see that this could be a very constructive Bill, particularly if we got back to o...

Would my noble friend reflect on one specific point around all this? When we started out on this ...

I would have thought so.

We need to be rational about conservation. Conservation often invo...

My Lords, we have been debating this amendment for some considerable time. There is a concern tha...

My Lords, after that speech, I should begin by declaring a few non-interests. I am not a heredita...

My Lords, we have heard some very strong speeches, though many have had a rather tenuous connecti...

I understand the noble Lord’s point about wanting to speak to a specific amendment, but he will h...

I am sorry, but there is no grouping, is there?

Every amendment is in a group.

Can I invite the noble Lord, Lord Hannan, to support our amendments tomorrow, since he clearly la...

My Lords, we have already spent a considerable time on this first amendment. I take what I think ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Caithness, for tabling and moving this amendment, and the ...

I thank my noble friend for giving way; I am most grateful. I too would like to have found a way ...

I thank my noble friend and understand the point he makes. Like other noble Lords, I commend my n...

My Lords, I would like to thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, and I thank t...

May I intervene? I did not deal with any of those issues because I regarded them as a Second Read...

I think we all fully accept that my noble friend will not meet anybody to discuss this Bill and w...

Moved by

The Earl of Caithness

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 2, at beginning insert “Subj...

My Lords, this is a very simple amendment. It makes Clause 1 subject to Clause 4, which relates t...

My Lords, I have already set out the Government’s position on this matter in my response to an ea...

My Lords, I am grateful for all the support around the Committee I have received on that one. In ...

Moved by

The Earl of Leicester

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out “an” and insert...

My Lords, I apologise that I was unable to attend Second Reading. I was very keen to do so but un...

My Lords, if Amendment 3 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 4 or 5 for reasons of pre-emption...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment, which makes a great deal of sense. I think it is...

My Lords, I want to make a comment about this and ask a question of my noble friend on the Front ...

For the record, I do not like this amendment and am opposed to it, as it restricts the scope far ...

Does that mean that my noble friend thinks that we should have trophy laws for domestic animals?<...

My Lords, I do not wish to add to what I said earlier, but my noble friend has asked me something...

My Lords, I thank those noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, particularly the noble Lo...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out “an animal” and insert “a ...

My Lords, in search of this rather elusive rapprochement which my noble friend on the Front Bench...

My Lords, I compliment my noble friend on his amendment, which has the great benefit of substanti...

My Lords, I shall just add to that, supporting the noble Lord, Lord Bellingham, and the amendment...

My Lords, I think that is a very helpful intervention. There are some noble Lords who think this ...

My Lords, your Lordships will probably not be surprised that I do not agree with my noble friend ...

My Lords, I set out earlier my thoughts on these amendments. My noble friend Lord Lucas is a very...

I will just add on that last point: surely we should stick to the manifesto commitment, which is ...

My Lords, to follow that up, it seems strange that my noble friend the Minister lamented that the...

My Lords, one of the reasons I enjoy being in this House is that we have to achieve compromises i...

I wonder whether my noble friend would give consideration to answering the question I put to him....

We are seeking to implement the manifesto commitment.

My Lords, I am naturally disappointed in that, but I shall not give up during the course of rest ...

Moved by

Lord Robathan

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out “an animal to which thi...

My Lords, I beg to move the amendment standing in my name. I do not wish to repeat everything tha...

I just intervene to say that the noble Lord is the opposition; we are the other side, as far as I...

This is a Private Member’s Bill, not a government Bill, apparently, and on the Opposition Benches...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. The noble Lord opposite makes a very interesting...

Anyway, to go back to the matter in hand, I would say that, when I and several other noble Lords ...

Just for clarification, when these Ministers and MPs took all the trouble to come from Africa to ...

Yes, I am indeed aware: none. Which was a pity, and it was especially a pity that my noble friend...

I just want to clarify one matter. I actually feel quite strongly that we need to improve this Bi...

I am grateful to my noble friend because I will come on to a compromise in a minute.

This B...

My Lords, I rise to speak in support of my noble friend Lord Robathan’s Amendment 5. I declare an...

My Lords, I support this amendment. We have been told that the motivations behind this Bill are t...

I was in the House of Commons for 23 years. I do not know if I achieved anything useful; I did tr...

I got one actually, over more than 23 years.

You got one, but you were there for longer than I was.

Well, it was lovely to have that domestic entertainment, but the point I was trying to make is th...

It is interesting that the noble Lord, Lord Robathan, said no one asked him about this. My noble ...

The noble Baroness may well be right, because I was in the House of Commons until 2019 and I got ...

If we are all making confessions, I was not in the House of Commons and I never had a letter, but...

My Lords, I want to pick up a few points that have come out of this debate on the amendment so ab...

My Lords, I too will be very interested in my noble friend the Minister’s reply to this amendment...

My Lords, having listened to the debate so far, I think that this amendment is slightly closer to...

My Lords, as I said earlier, I spoke at some length on the first amendment and covered many of th...

My Lords, I note that almost all the speeches have been in favour of this amendment. That is beca...

You are younger than Joe Biden.

I am younger than Joe Biden. However, my wife and my children in particular tell me how old I am....

No!

They do. Because people are urging me to, I think I will test the opinion of the House.