HC Deb 01 November 1973 vol 863 cc313-4

Mr. Secretary Walker, supported by Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Mr. Secretary Whitelaw, Mr. Secretary Rippon, Mr. Secretary Campbell, Mr. Secretary Peter Thomas, Mr. Joseph Godber, Mr. Michael Heseltine, Mr. Terence L. Higgins and Mr. Cranley Onslow, presented a Bill to make further provision concerning oil pollution by ships and related matters; to give power to protect shipping and trading interests against foreign action concerning or affecting carriage of goods by sea; to make further provision as respects surveys and other functions of the Secretary of State under the Merchant Shipping Acts; and to alter the constitution of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses: And the same was read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow and to be printed.[Bill 7.]