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Written Question
Hunting Act 2004
Tuesday 9th May 2023

Asked by: Kate Osamor (Labour (Co-op) - Edmonton and Winchmore Hill)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to amend the Hunting Act 2004 to ban trail hunting.

Answered by Trudy Harrison

We recognise it is possible that dogs may on occasion pick up and follow the scent of live foxes during a trail hunt. Failure to prevent dogs from chasing or killing a fox may be taken as intent to break the law. Enforcement of the Hunting Act is an operational matter for the police.

The Government has made a manifesto commitment not to change the Hunting Act.

Westminster Hall
Import and Sale of Fur - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None [Relevant document: e-petition 630751, Retain bans on cat, dog, seal fur imports, and extend to ban - Speech Link
2: Giles Watling (CON - Clacton) We were the first country in the world to ban it and we blazed a trail that 18 countries have followed - Speech Link
3: Giles Watling (CON - Clacton) An import ban, as they say in the vernacular, is a no-brainer. - Speech Link
4: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) Member for Crawley (Henry Smith) successfully introduced the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill - Speech Link
5: Trudy Harrison (CON - Copeland) bringing forward cat microchipping; banning the keeping of primates as pets; and banning imports of hunting - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Animal Welfare - Thu 25 May 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) import of hunting trophies. - Speech Link
2: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) From ending the testing of cosmetics on animals and banning fox hunting to tightening the rules on the - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) have been shilly-shallying on all these issues, the Scottish Government have pushed ahead with the Hunting - Speech Link
4: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) the Windsor framework, including those on the export of live animals, the import of mutilated dogs, hunting - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Natural England

Mar. 06 2024

Source Page: King Charles III England Coast Path from Hunstanton to Sutton Bridge: Natural England's proposals
Document: Hunstanton to Sutton Bridge habitats regulations assessment (PDF)

Found: The Wash provides ideal hunting grounds with easy access from inland freshwater habitats which support

Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Adjournment Debate - Thu 12 Sep 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) number of years on animal welfare issues such as increasing penalties for animal cruelty, seeking to ban - Speech Link
2: Freddie van Mierlo (LD - Henley and Thame) landscape and its iconic escarpment, and is bisected by a section of the historic Ridgeway national trail - Speech Link

Commons Chamber
Economic Growth - Tue 14 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Mid Bedfordshire) but I will try to keep it brief, as I explain why those who were unable to join us on the by-election trail - Speech Link
2: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) ago and that featured in most of the main parties’ political manifestos, was the banning of trophy hunting - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) The failure to ban so-called conversion therapy represents a complete betrayal of all LGBT+ people at - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) I call on the Government to ban both those technologies once and for all as a matter of urgency.This - Speech Link

Select Committee
League against Cruel Sports
 WoD0047 - Work of Defra

Written Evidence Mar. 29 2023

Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: with action already underway in Wales, and the Scottish government are similarly considering a ban

Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 - Wed 31 May 2023

Mentions:
1: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) If you ban the use of glue traps, will you ban the sale of them? - Speech Link
2: None A ban on the use of glue traps is included in the bill, but we believe that a ban on their sale would - Speech Link
3: None As a result, there will be a direct trail and no ambiguity of the kind that you have described. - Speech Link
4: Fairlie, Jim (SNP - Perthshire South and Kinross-shire) We had similar conversations during the passage of the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill. - Speech Link
5: None NatureScot will start to develop the licensing scheme now but, as with the hunting with dogs legislation - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Committee
This report sets out the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee's consideration of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1.
 Stage 1 report on the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill

Report Nov. 20 2023

Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Found: __________ 56 Delegated power provisions ______________________________________________ 57 Proposed ban

Select Committee
Born Free Foundation
 WoD0031 - Work of Defra

Written Evidence Mar. 29 2023

Committee: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

Found: of policy proposals and commitments, including: Delivering on the 2019 Manifesto Commitment to ban