A MID Cheshire MP is backing the latest move to ban hunting with dogs.
Northwich MP Mike Hall has given his support to a new report entitled Time to Deliver the Ban, which sets out the reasons why hunting must be banned - and why now is the time to do it.
The report, produced by Campaigning to Protect Hunted Animals, was launched at a conference on Wednesday at which graphic footage of foxhunting, stag-hunting and hare-coursing was also released.
Mr Hall said: 'Hunting with dogs is an inherently cruel activity carried out for the entertainment of a minority, and I firmly believe that it must be banned.
'Yet, in spite of the overwhelming support for a ban among MPs and the British public, this issue has yet to be resolved.
'The Government made a commitment to reintroduce the Hunting Bill and enable Parliament to bring this issue to a conclusion. The only way to resolve this issue satisfactorily is to outlaw this barbaric practice once and for all.'
He added: 'I have recently pressed the Prime Minister to reintroduce the Government's Hunting Bill. Once reintroduced the Bill can be dealt with in the House of Commons in just one day. If the House of Lords then rejects it, the Parliament Act procedure will apply and the Bill will automatically become law.
'I continue to receive huge amounts of correspondence from constituents on this issue and it will not simply go away.
'I am confident the Government will reintroduce the Hunting Bill into the House of Commons in this parliamentary session and that we will see the hunting of wild animals with trained dogs ban reach the statute book.'
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