§ Mr. SpeakerThe swearing in of Members will now be continued. If there are any Privy Councillors or ex-Ministers who have not yet taken the oath, they will take it first, and I shall then call upon other Members, according to the Benches which they occupy. Assuming that all the Members in attendance have been sworn in by one o'clock I will leave the Chair then, and resume the Chair at half-past two o'clock, when I understand there are some Motions to be moved.
§ The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:
- Right honourable Sir John Anderson, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., the University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh.
- Kenneth Martin Lindsay, esquire, the University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, the University of Bristol, and the University of Reading.
- Robert Richards, esquire, County of Denbigh (Wrexham Division).
- Charles William Key, esquire, Borough of Poplar (Bow and Bromley Division).
- Walter James Edwards, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Whitechapel and St. George's Division).
- John Dugdale, esquire, Borough of West Bromwich.
- Clarice McNab Shaw, County of Ayr and Bute (Kilmarnock Division).
- Major Arthur Leslie Symonds, Borough of Cambridge.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Roland Hamilton, O.B.E., County of West Suffolk (Sudbury Division).
- Albert Ernest Stubbs, esquire, County of Cambridge.
- Stanley Norman Evans, esquire, Borough of Wednesbury.
- Captain Francis Edward Noel-Baker, County of Middlesex (Brentford and Chiswick Division).
- Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, esquire, Borough of Coventry (East Division).
- Edith Agnes Wills, Borough of Birmingham (Duddeston Division).
- Arthur Creech Jones, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Shipley Division).
- Ralph Morley, esquire, Borough of Southampton.
- Thomas Lewis, esquire, Borough of Southampton.
- Walter Fletcher, esquire, O.B.E., Borough of Bury.
- Alfred Charles Bossom, esquire, County of Kent (Maidstone Division).
- Isaac James Pitman, esquire, Borough of Bath.
- Flight-Lieutenant William Teeling, Borough of Brighton.
- Captain Malcolm Bullock, M.B.E., County of Lancaster (Waterloo Division).
- Major William Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, commonly called Lord William Scott, County of Roxburgh and Selkirk.
- Gordon Cosmo Touche, esquire, County of Surrey (Reigate Division).
- Major John Baker White, County of Kent (Canterbury Division).
- Brigadier John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, C.B.E., County of Chester (Wirral Division).
- Sir William Harold Webbe, C.B.E., Borough of Westminster (Abbey Division).
- Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis Coleridge Boles, County of Somerset (Wells Division).
- Flight-Lieutenant Charles Challen, Borough of Hampstead.
- Major Roger John Edward Conant, County of Worcester (Bewdley Division).
- William Henry Kingsmill, esquire, County of Somerset (Yeovil Division).
- George Buchanan, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Gorbals Division).
- Richard Rapier Stokes, esquire, Borough of Ipswich.
- Francis George Bowles, esquire, County of Warwick (Nuneaton Division).
- Arthur Montague Frank Palmer, esquire, Borough of Wimbledon.
- Stephen Owen Davies, esquire, Borough of Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Division).
- Captain Geoffrey Henry Cecil Bing, County of Essex (Hornchurch Division).
- Sydney Herbert Smith, esquire, Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (South-West Division).
- Group-Captain Clifford Arthur Bowman Wilcock, O.B.E., A.F.C., Borough of Derby.
- John McGovern, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Shettleston Division).
- Sir Ernest Gordon Graham Graham-Little, M.D., F.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., University of London.
- Sir John Boyd Orr, D.S.O., M.C., the University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh.
- Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, University of Oxford.
- Henry Wilson Harris, esquire, University of Cambridge.
- Commander Arthur Marsden, R.N., County of Surrey (Chertsey Division).
- Major Peter Geoffrey Roberts, Borough of Sheffield (Ecclesall Division).
- George Harold Oliver, esquire, County of Derby (Ilkeston Division).
- Henry Berry, esquire, Borough of Woolwich (West Division).
- James Haworth, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Walton Division).
- Major Wilfrid Foulston Vernon, Borough of Camberwell (Dulwich Division).
- William Henry Mainwaring, esquire, Borough of Rhondda (East Division).
- Garry Allighan, esquire, County of Kent (Gravesend Division).
- Thomas Ellis Naylor, esquire, Borough of Southwark (South-East Division).
- Morgan Philips Price, esquire, County of Gloucester (Forest of Dean Division).
- Ivor, Thomas, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Keighley Division).
- Andrew Gilzean, esquire. Burgh of Edinburgh (Central Division).
- Stephen James Lake Taylor, esquire, County of Hertford (Barnet Division).
- John Faithful Fortescue Platts-Mills, esquire, Borough of Finsbury.
- Cyril Walter Dumpleton, esquire, County of Hertford (St. Albans Division).
- Mont Follick, esquire, County of Leicester (Loughborough Division).
- Albert Raymond Blackburn, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (King's Norton Division).
- David James Williams, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Neath Division).
- Wing-Commander Ernest Rogers Millington, County of Essex (Chelmsford Division).
- Colonel Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole, O.B.E., County of Salop (Oswestry Division).
- Colonel Oliver Eyre Crosthwaite-Eyre, County of Hants (New Forest and Christchurch Division).
- Henry Channon, esquire, Borough of Southend-on-Sea.
- Harold Anthony Nutting, esquire, County of Leicester (Melton Division).
- Arthur Beverley Baxter, esquire, County of Middlesex (Wood Green Division).
- Lieutenant-Colonel David Archibald Price-White, T.D., Caernarvon Boroughs.
- Eleanor Florence Rathbone, the University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, the University of Bristol, and the University of Reading.
- Hugh Nicholas Linstead, esquire, O.B.E., Borough of Wandsworth (Putney Division).
§ Sitting suspended until half-past two o'Clock.
§ On resuming—