§ Mr. Peter Lloyd (Fareham)With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I beg leave to present a humble petition which contains nearly 500 signatures, collected by an energetic and determined 13-year-old schoolboy, Colin Lowe, from my constituency. He spent a large portion of his summer holidays on the task.
The prayer is as follows:
To: The Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament Assembled.The Humble Petition of we the undersigned showeth that foxhunting should be banned.Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your honourable House will pass legislation to ban foxhunting.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.I do not share the petition's objective but I hope that the House will agree that it is an expression of sincere and serious opinion, which should be received by the House and recorded, and in due time given an answer.
§ To lie upon the Table.