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HANSARD Onshore Wind and Solar GenerationThe approach set out in the order is a continuation of the Minister’s work to build the clean energy infrastructure that the country needs. I agree that the capacity threshold and…02 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingMeur ras, Mr Speaker. I am delighted to secure my first Adjournment debate, and for it to be on an issue so close to my heart: trail hunting and, more broadly, animal welfare. Put…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingI think that I have twice made the point that I have no issue with drag hunting. With drag hunting, the scent that is followed is not that of the carcase of an animal or the urine…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingI can say once again that I have no issues with drag hunting; this is about trail hunting. Trail hunts are often deliberately laid in areas inhabited by foxes, increasing the…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingI agree with the hon. Member, and thank him not just for his intervention but for all his work to raise awareness. The Hunting Act did not go far enough. It left certain…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingI thank my hon. Friend for that point. I do agree, and I will be coming on to that later.01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingI think it is absolutely right that all voices are heard, but that science is followed. Legislation should be based on evidence and science, and the evidence and the science…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Not only that, but in his constituency I have personally cleared land on which local hunts had created an environment for foxes to…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingI thank my hon. Friend for that intervention and I entirely agree. Trail hunting, as it is commonly understood, involves a pack of hounds following a scent trail laid by a human,…01 Apr 2025HANSARDEating Disorder AwarenessI thank the hon. Member. How could a system be so warped as to make a parent feel that way about their own child—the thing they love most, more than anything else in the world?…01 Apr 2025HANSARDEating Disorder AwarenessMeur ras, Mr Stuart; thank you for your chairship. I thank the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) for securing this important debate. I declare an interest: I am also a member…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingMy hon. Friend raises a difficult question. Society moves on, and people’s values change. Over the course of the last few decades, society has come to respect animal welfare far…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Trail HuntingI agree with my hon. Friend. In addition to those changes, we must extend the time available to charge in illegal hunting cases, reverse the burden of proof of compliance with…01 Apr 2025HANSARDBritish Sign Language WeekI wonder if the hon. Gentleman could try to talk a little slower, because the interpreters might be struggling a little bit.20 Mar 2025HANSARDBritish Sign Language Week[In British Sign Language: Thank you . ] That is about as far as my signing goes, Sir Desmond, apart from one or two rude words that are not appropriate for the Chamber—it is an…20 Mar 2025HANSARD Coastal CommunitiesIs the hon. Member surprised to hear that Reform is campaigning locally in Cornwall against second homes, yet nationally it voted against taxes on second homes?20 Mar 2025HANSARDClean Power by 2030The Conservative party abandoned the economy, the NHS, the justice system and immigration, and now it is joining its Reform collaborators and other climate change deniers in the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsSupporting people back into work is not only the right thing to do for the UK economy, but the fair and compassionate thing to do for people stuck in the welfare system. However,…17 Mar 2025HANSARDSustainable Farming IncentiveMeur ras, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is the Minister surprised that the Conservative party is now crying crocodile tears when it failed to get £350 million of SFI out and into farmers’…12 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillNo, they are not.12 Mar 2025