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Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 22 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) I have not met the current President of Botswana, but I have met the previous one, President Khama, on - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) It is worth remembering that Botswana had 50,000 elephants; it now has 130,000 elephants. - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) The paper quoted from a survey of 4,000 people in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa - Speech Link
4: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) After a hunting ban in 2014 in Botswana one village lost the provision of 154 tonnes of meat, so less - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Health and Wellbeing Services: Essex - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) Our NHS would be in a much more difficult position if it was not for the staff from Botswana, India, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Debt in Africa - Tue 21 Nov 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) Botswana has stated that its aim in retaining control of its mineral resources is to maximise the economic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None The trophy hunting ban in Botswana led to less meat being available, more poaching and a new illegal - Speech Link
2: None In Botswana, there was a reduction in community benefits which included income, employment, funeral insurance - Speech Link
3: Lord Swire (CON - Life peer) Does he share my surprise that the Minister for Environment and Tourism in Botswana felt obliged to issue - Speech Link
4: Lord Mancroft (CON - Excepted Hereditary) thing that affected me most was that one of the people who came here, an MP from a constituency in Botswana - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 16 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Twycross (LAB - Life peer) We know that in Botswana, banning trophy hunting benefited threatened species such as elephants and brought - Speech Link
2: Lord Swire (CON - Life peer) the letter in the Times—yesterday, I think it was—from the high commissioners and ambassadors from Botswana - Speech Link
3: Lord Mancroft (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The most well-known signatory is Dr Ian Khama, the former president of Botswana, who was indeed responsible - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
Report stage - Fri 17 Mar 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) page 1, line 2, after “where” insert—“(aa) the hunting trophy is brought from a country other than Botswana - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) Poisoning is traumatic, lions vomiting for hours, as they pass away.”She wrote that“when Botswana had - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) Friend the Member for Christchurch for tabling it—exempts Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) He told us how banning trophy hunting not only benefited threatened species such as elephants—Botswana - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 25 Jan 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None Imports came from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Canada, Zambia, Namibia, Russia, the US, Botswana - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 09 Jan 2023
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Marland (CON - Life peer) countries which embrace that—we can already mention Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Rwanda, Botswana - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Asylum and Refugee Policy - Fri 09 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) I remember paying a visit as part of a parliamentary delegation to Botswana when the AIDS problem was - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Fri 25 Nov 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Many tourists were drawn to Botswana as a direct result of the ban, because they liked the fact that - Speech Link
2: Roger Gale (CON - North Thanet) In conclusion, I will cite again the instance of Ian Seretse Khama, who, as the President of Botswana - Speech Link
3: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) The President of Botswana is asking why we are deciding what happens to their elephants. - Speech Link