SHORTAGE OF FOXES

Early day motion 13, tabled 23 November 2004 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 45 members.

That this House agrees with Simon Hart, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, that his organisation would be ridiculed in parliament on the publication of a letter sent by the Masters of Fox Hounds Association to 800 hunt masters warning of the nationwide 'shortage of foxes' and urging landowners to breed more foxes to 'solve the problem'; and welcomes this further evidence that foxhunting is unconnected with pest control but is devoted entirely to sadistic pleasure derived from the protracted torment and death of foxes.

Signatures by party: Labour 37, Liberal Democrat 5, Labour/Co-operative 3.