Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) But why are the Government not listening to them? Labour is, and we will change the law. - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) The Government will change the law to ensure that all officers who are unable to maintain vetting clearance - Speech Link
3: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) To increase public confidence in policing, the Bill provides for a duty of candour for policing, and - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) The Sentencing Bill will introduce steps to ensure tougher sentences for criminals and increase the confidence - Speech Link
Apr. 14 2023
Source Page: Wildlife crime in Scotland: annual report 2021Found: • The cases in the "Hunting with dogs" category related to allegations of hare coursing or deer coursing
Mentions:
1: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) The first was that they could be used as a cover for hare coursing. - Speech Link
2: Carson, Finlay (Con - Galloway and West Dumfries) used as an excuse for illegal hare poaching, which is commonly known as hare coursing. - Speech Link
3: McAllan, Màiri (SNP - Clydesdale) It is for two reasons: first, to close the loophole whereby persons who seek to engage in hare coursing - Speech Link
4: McAllan, Màiri (SNP - Clydesdale) hares, and to seek to overcome the excuse for hare coursing—I cannot support the removal of those species - Speech Link
5: Smyth, Colin (Lab - South Scotland) The Government cannot change the law without coming to Parliament and specifying the reasons for that - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) I can tell and reassure him that governors are under no obligation to accept requests for a change of - Speech Link
2: Daniel Kawczynski (CON - Shrewsbury and Atcham) firearms, fly-tipping and poaching? - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 by introducing new hare coursing offences - Speech Link
4: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) There has been a step change and an increase in sentences for burglary, as well as the measures we are - Speech Link
5: Alison McGovern (LAB - Wirral South) My constituents and I are waiting for the Government to introduce a Hillsborough law that will change - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) nightmare for police and law enforcement to track it and return it to its rightful owner. - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) Any slight increase in the cost of the machine to fit the immobiliser and install the forensic marking - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) officers have the training to understand all forms of rural crime, including hare coursing, and particular - Speech Link
4: Ben Everitt (CON - Milton Keynes North) coursing, which is such a blight and such a pain for farmers. - Speech Link
5: Holly Lynch (LAB - Halifax) in Northumberland, where efforts to disrupt poaching recovered £850,000-worth of property and arrested - Speech Link
Sep. 03 2022
Source Page: Delivering for rural EnglandFound: Delivering for rural England
Formal Minutes Sep. 02 2022
Committee: Petitions CommitteeFound: /558514 36 Change the law to increase sentencing for Hare coursing and poaching. https://petition.parliament.uk
Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) , to crack down further on illegal hare coursing. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Edwards (CON - Rushcliffe) in relation to hare coursing, because taxpayers certainly should not be paying for it. - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) I am also grateful to Members for their strong support for the hare coursing changes that the Government - Speech Link
Found: Lords Amendments 61 to 69: Hare coursing 89 Lords Amendments 61 to 69 would insert nine new clauses
Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) dogs used in hare coursing, require offenders to pay the kennelling costs, increase the level of fines - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) Officers very much suspect that the activity is linked to poaching and hare coursing. - Speech Link