§ Mr. MealeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Hampshire on the photographing on Saturday 18 November, between 10.30 am and 11 am, at Brockenhurst hall in the New Forest, of members of the League Against Cruel Sports by a police photographer and how many other occasions similar photographs have been taken.
§ Mr. Peter LloydI understand from the chief constable of Hampshire that he decided to authorise the photographing of both hunt protestors and huntsmen as one response to an increasing number of breaches of the peace occurring at meets in that county.
Photographs were taken on the last three weekends in November.