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Written Question
Hares: Conservation
Monday 21st July 2025

Asked by: Gavin Robinson (Democratic Unionist Party - Belfast East)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning the shooting of hares in their breeding season.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Government considers the need for a close season for hares is justified more by animal welfare concerns than biodiversity and species conservation. In short, a close season should reduce the number of adult hares being shot in the breeding season, which runs from February to October, meaning that fewer leverets (infant hares) are left motherless and vulnerable to starvation and predation. A close season is also consistent with Natural England's advice on wildlife management that controlling species in their peak breeding season should be avoided unless genuinely essential and unavoidable. Defra Ministers therefore support the ambition to introduce a close season for hares in England and are considering how this can be brought forward.

Division Vote (Commons)
16 Jul 2025 - Competition - View Vote Context
Gavin Robinson (DUP) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 4 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes vs 1 Democratic Unionist Party No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 333 Noes - 54
Division Vote (Commons)
16 Jul 2025 - Competition - View Vote Context
Gavin Robinson (DUP) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 4 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes vs 1 Democratic Unionist Party No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 334 Noes - 54
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Jul 2025 - Taxes - View Vote Context
Gavin Robinson (DUP) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 5 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 165 Noes - 342
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Privilege

"I have had the privilege of sharing time on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee with the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi), in the names of whom this motion has been laid. It is crucial that the Omagh inquiry gets the information it requires, and we …..."
Gavin Robinson - View Speech

View all Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) contributions to the debate on: Privilege
Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Northern Ireland Veterans: Prosecution

"Thank you for your chairmanship, Mr Mundell, and for the opportunity to speak in this important debate. I give thanks to the armed forces of our country: those who came and served with us in Northern Ireland—people from Culloden coming to Coleraine, from Folkestone to Fermanagh, from Birmingham to Belfast …..."
Gavin Robinson - View Speech

View all Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) contributions to the debate on: Northern Ireland Veterans: Prosecution
Division Vote (Commons)
9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context
Gavin Robinson (DUP) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 3 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 336 Noes - 242
Division Vote (Commons)
9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context
Gavin Robinson (DUP) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 4 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 149 Noes - 334
Division Vote (Commons)
9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context
Gavin Robinson (DUP) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 4 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 130 Noes - 443
Division Vote (Commons)
9 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill - View Vote Context
Gavin Robinson (DUP) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 4 Democratic Unionist Party No votes vs 0 Democratic Unionist Party Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 35 Noes - 469