Commons Sitting of 23 October 1974

Preamble
The House being met at half-past Two o'clock, and Mr. SPEAKER-ELECT having taken the Chair;
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners;
The House went; and, having returned—

ELECTION OF SPEAKER
Mr. Speaker: I have to report to the House that, in the House of Peers, Her Majesty, by Her Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve of the choice made of myself for the Office of Speaker, and that I have, in your name and on your behalf, made claim by humble petition to Her Majesty to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges—particularly to the freedom of spech in debate, freedom from arrest and freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction may be placed on all your procedings. All these Her Majesty, by Her Commissioners, has been pleased to confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by herself or by any of Her Royal Predecessors.
My first duty to the House is to repeat my respectful acknowledgements and my grateful thanks for the honour which you have conferred upon me in re-electing me to the Chair.

MEMBERS SWORN
Mr. Speaker: I must now call upon the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance at the Table of the House, first doing so myself.
Thereupon Mr. SPEAKER first alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.
Mr. Speaker: It may be for the convenience of the House if I indicate my intentions with regard to the taking of the Oath by right hon. and hon. Members.
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I propose to take the Front Benches first; then Privy Councillors and former Ministers, and thereafter 20 hon. Members from each side, so that there may be no unseemly barging or bustling in our arrangements. I shall continue until about half-past four, and I shall then suspend the sitting until five o'clock. I shall definitely return to the Chair at five, and I shall come again at six.
I hope that the announcement of these arrangements will be of assistance to hon. Members if they have something which they wish to do in the meantime. The same procedure will apply tomorrow. The House will sit at half-past two. I shall adopt the same timetable, again being in the Chair at five o'clock and six o'clock. In each case six o'clock will be the last occasion.
I hope that that announcement will enable hon. Members to make their arrangements.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable James Harold Wilson, OBE, Huyton.

Right honourable Edward Richard George Heath, MBE, Bexley, Sidcup.

Right honourable Edward Watson Short, Newcastle upon Tyne Central.

Right honourable Leonard James Callaghan, Cardiff South East.

Right honourable Denis Winston Healey, MBE, Leeds East.

Right honourable Eric Graham Varley, Chesterfield.

Right honourable Robert Joseph Mellish, Southwark, Bermondsey.

Right honourable Roy Mason, Barnsley.

Right honourable Thomas Frederick Peart, Workington.

Right honourable Reginald Ernest Prentice, Newham North East.

Right honourable Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain, Mrs. Williams, Hertford and Stevenage.

Right honourable Michael Mackintosh Foot, Ebbw Vale.

Right honourable Charles Anthony Raven Crosland, Grimsby.

Right honourable William Ross, MBE, Kilmarnock.

Right honourable John Morris, QC, Aberavon.

Right honourable John Ernest Silkin, Lewisham, Deptford.

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Right honourable William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, CH, MC, Penrith and the Border.

Right honourable Sir Keith Sinjohn Joseph, baronet, Leeds North East.

Right honourable Peter Edward Walker, MBE, Worcester.

Right honourable Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, QC, Hexham.

Right honourable Sir Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, QC, East Surrey.

Right honourable John Jeremy Thorpe, North Devon.

Right honourable Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Redbridge, Wanstead and Woodford.

Norman Antony Francis St. John-Stevas, esquire, Chelmsford.

Right honourable Margaret Hilda, Mrs. Thatcher, Barnet, Finchley.

Henry Paul Guinness Channon, esquire, Southend West.

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, esquire, Henley.

Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith, esquire, commonly called the honourable Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith, North Angus and Mearns.

Right honourable Humphrey Edward Atkins, Spelthorne.

Right honourable Harold Julian Amery, Brighton, Pavilion.

Right honourable Ronald King Murray, QC, Edinburgh, Leith.

Right honourable Maurice Victor Macmillan, Farnham.

Eric Samuel Heffer, esquire, Liverpool, Walton.

James Anthony Dunn, esquire, Liverpool, Kirkdale.

James Hamilton, esquire, Bothwell.

Brian Kevin O'Malley, esquire, Rotherham.

Alfred Morris, esquire, Manchester, Wythenshawe.

Peter Kingsley Archer, esquire, QC, Warley, West.

Brynmor Thomas John, esquire, Pontypridd.

John Douglas Grant, esquire, Islington, Central.

Right honourable David Hedley Ennals, Norwich, North.

Joel Barnett, esquire, Heywood and Royton.

Dr Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill, commonly called the honourable Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill, Halifax.

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Robert Edward Sheldon, esquire, Ashton-under-Lyne.

Gerald Teasdale Fowler, esquire, The Wrekin.

Walter Harrison, esquire, Wakefield.

John Denis Fraser, esquire, Lambeth, Norwood.

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, esquire, Birmingham, Sparkbrook.

Alexander Eadie, esquire, BEM, Midlothian.

Robert Hughes, esquire, Aberdeen, North.

Edward Stanley Bishop, esquire, Newark.

Hugh Dunbar Brown, esquire, Glasgow Provan.

Trevor Alec Jones, esquire, Rhondda.

Gordon James Oakes, esquire, Widnes.

Terence Langley Higgins, esquire, Worthing.

Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, esquire, The City of London and Westminster South.

Right honourable John Wynne William Peyton, Yeovil.

Donald Richard Coleman, esquire, Neath.

Walter Hamlet Johnson, esquire, Derby South.

Reginald Yarnitz Freeson, esquire, Brent East.

John Smith, esquire, North Lanarkshire.

Joseph Harper, esquire, Pontefract and Castleford.

Thomas Pendry, esquire, Stalybridge and Hyde.

Robert Crofton Brown, esquire, Newcastle upon Tyne West.

Gerald Bernard Kaufman, esquire, Manchester, Ardwick.

Harrying Ewing, esquire, Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth.

Stanley Clinton Davis, esquire, Hackney Central.

Thomas Michael Cox, esquire, Wandsworth, Tooting.

James Gregor Mackenzie, esquire, Rutherglen.

John Donkin Dormand, esquire, Easing-ton.

Eric Petro Deakins, esquire, Waltham Forest, Walthamstow.

Right honourable George Thomas, Cardiff West.

Right honourable George Russell Strauss, Lambeth, Vauxhall.

Right honourable Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser, MBE, Stafford and Stone.

Right honourable Richard Frederick Wood, Bridlington.

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Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi, esquire, Haringey, Hornsey.

David Arthur Russell Howell, esquire, Guildford.

Peter Michael Kirk, esquire, Saffron Walden.

Right honourable Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, CH, Hammersmith, Fulham.

Right honourable Arthur George Bottomley, OBE, Teesside, Middles-brough.

Right honourable Frededick Thomas Willey, Sunderland North.

Right honourable Cledwyn Hughes, Anglesey.

Right honourable Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas, KCMG, Kettering.

Right honourable Sir Arthur James Irvine, QC, Liverpool, Edge Hill.

Right honourable Sydney Irving, Dartford.

Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay, esquire, Kirkcaldy.

William Charles Whitlock, esquire, Nottingham North.

Ifor Davies, esquire, Gower.

Arthur Blenkinsop, esquire, South Shields.

Harold James Boyden, esquire, Bishop Auckland.

Ernest Alan Fitch, esquire, Wigan.

Norman Findlay Buchan, esquire, West Renfrewshire.

Right honourable Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, OBE, TD, East Renfrew-shire.

Right honourable Rodney Graham Page, MBE, Crosby.

Right honourable William Craig, Belfast East.

William Radcliffe van Straubenzee, esquire, MBE, Wokingham.

Right honourable Leonard Robert Carr, Sutton, Carshalton.

Sir Donald Kaberry, baronet, TD, Leeds North West

Sir Bernard Richard Braine, South East Essex.

Sir James Harwood Harrison, baronet, TD, Eye.

Edward Rowlands, esquire, Merthyr Tydfil.

John Stradling Thomas, esquire, Monmouth.

Raymond Llewellyn Mawby, esquire, Totnes.

Nicholas Ridley, esquire, commonly called the honourable Nicholas Ridley, Cirencester and Tewkesbury.

Harry Neil Marten, esquire, Banbury.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Oscar Murton, OBE, TD, Poole.

Peter Emery, esquire, Honiton.

Jasper More, esquire, Ludlow.

Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, esquire, DSO, OBE, MC, TD, Abingdon.

Arthur Paul Dean, esquire, North Somerset.

John Anthony Kershaw, esquire, MC. Stroud.

Herbert Keith Speed, esquire, RD, Ashford.

Michael Hilary Arthur Roberts, esquire, Cardiff North West.

Bruce Bernard Weatherill, esquire, Croydon North East.

Albert Roberts, esquire, Normanton.

Bruce Thomas George, esquire, Walsall South.

Bruce Joseph Grocott, esquire, Lichfield and Tamworth.

Benjamin Thomas Ford, esquire, Bradford North.

William John Molloy, esquire, Ealing North.

Raphael Herman Tuck, esquire, Watford.

Thomas Henry Swain, esquire, North East Derbyshire.

Edward Joseph Fletcher, esquire, Darlington.

Harry Selby, esquire, Glasgow, Govan.

Leopold Abse, esquire, Pontypool.

Alfred Thomas Evans, esquire, Caerphilly.

Donald Anderson, esquire, Swansea East.

Leslie Spriggs, esquire, St. Helens.

Stanley George Thorne, esquire, Preston South.

Peter Hardy, esquire, Rother Valley.

Roger Stott, esquire, Westhoughton.

James Marshall, esquire, Leicester South.

David Weitzman, esquire, QC, Hackney North and Stoke Newington.

John Heydon Romaine Stokes, esquire, Halesowen and Stourbridge.

Rear-Admiral Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles, DSO, OBE, GM, Winchester.

Sir John Charles Rodgers, baronet, Seven-oaks.

Albert Percy Costain, esquire, Folkestone and Hythe.

William Percival Grieve, esquire, QC, Solihull.

John Wakeham, esquire, Maldon.

Sir George Evelyn Sinclair, CMG, OBE, Dorking.

John Gordon Hannam, esquire, Exeter.

Robert Michael Marshall, esquire, Arundel.

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Joan Christabel Jill, Mrs. Knight, MBE, Birmingham, Edgbaston.

Janet Evelyn Fookes, Plymouth, Drake.

David Laidlaw Knox, esquire, Leek.

John Arnold Farr, esquire, Harborough.

Angus Edmund Upton Maude, esquire, TD, Stratford-on-Avon.

Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, esquire, Horncastle.

Peter Hugh Morrison, esquire, City of Chester.

Michael Anthony Latham, esquire, Melton.

David Carol MacDonell Mather, esquire, MC, Esher.

John Carson, esquire, Belfast North.

John Alec Biggs-Davison, esquire, Epping Forest.

Alec Woodall, esquire, Hemsworth.

Neville Devonshire Sandelson, esquire, Hillingdon, Hayes and Harlington.

Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar, esquire, Belper.

Adam Hunter, esquire, Dunfermline.

George Maclean Park, esquire, Coventry North East.

Stanley Cohen, esquire, Leeds South East.

Alexander Wilson, esquire, Hamilton.

Richard Kelley, esquire, Don Valley.

Thomas McLellan McMillan, esquire, Glasgow, Central.

Millie, Mrs. Miller, Redbridge, Ilford North.

Sydney Tierney, esquire, Birmingham, Yardley.

Dennis Andrew Canavan, esquire, West Stirlingshire.

Richard Buchanan, esquire, Glasgow, Springburn.

James Dempsey, esquire, Coatbridge and Airdrie.

David Ginsburg, esquire, Dewsbury.

Peter Muir Doig, esquire, Dundee West.

Richard Crawshaw, esquire, OBE, TD, Liverpool, Toxteth.

Arnold John Shaw, esquire, Redbridge, Ilford South.

Margaret Mary Jackson, Lincoln.

John Edward Tomlinson, esquire, Meriden.

Robin Corbett, esquire, Hemel Hempstead.

Dr. Alan Glyn, ERD, Windsor and Maidenhead.

Thomas Richard Arnold, esquire, Hazel Grove.

Ivor Robert Stanbrook, esquire, Bromley, Orpington.

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David Neil MacFarlane, esquire, Sutton and Cheam.

Leon Brittan, esquire, Cleveland and Whitby.

Richard Anthony Nelson, esquire, Chichester.

Robert George Banks, esquire, Harrogate.

Patrick Thomas Cormack, esquire, South West Staffordshire.

Michael Norman Shaw, esquire, Scarborough

Anthony George Berry, esquire, commonly called the honourable Anthony
George Berry, Enfield, Southgate.

James Wilton Spicer, esquire, West Dorset.

Kenneth Lewis, esquire, Rutland and Stamford.

Ian Grist, esquire, Cardiff North.

Stephen Sherlock Ross, esquire, Isle of Wight.

John Dunlop, esquire, Mid-Ulster.

James Harold McCusker, esquire, Armagh.

William Jeremy Masefield Shelton, esquire, Lambeth, Streatham.

John Warren Loveridge, esquire, Havering, Upminster.

Ralph Bonner Pink, esquire, C.B.E., V.R.D., Portsmouth South.

Ian Stewart Lloyd, esquire, Havant and Waterloo.

James Johnson, esquire, Kingston upon Hull West.

Richard Charles Mitchell, esquire, Southampton, Itchen.

Captain Hugh James Delargy, Thurrock.

Eric Ogden, esquire, Liverpool, West Derby.

Bryan Charles Gould, esquire, Southampton, Test.

Kenneth Thomas Weetch, esquire, Ipswich.

John Cameron Cartwright, esquire, Greenwich, Woolwich East.

Frank Hatton, esquire, Manchester, Moss Side.

Alfred James Wellbeloved, esquire, Bexley, Erith and Crayford.

Helene Valerie, Mrs. Hayman, Welwyn and Hatfield.

Michael John Ward, esquire, Peterborough.

John Taylor Watkinson, esquire, West Gloucestershire.

Winifred Ann, Mrs. Taylor, Bolton West.

Ivor Malcolm Clemitson, esquire, Luton East.

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James Callaghan, esquire, Middleton and Prestwich.

John Stuart Forrester, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent North.

George Rodgers, esquire, Chorley.

Frank Julian Allaun, esquire, Salford East.

Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle, esquire, Nelson and Colne.

Robert Bowen Cant, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent Central.

Roger Denis Moate, esquire, Faversham.

David Pelham James, esquire, MBE, DSC, North Dorset.

Michael Lewis Brotherton, esquire, Louth.

Michael Aubrey Hamilton, esquire, Salisbury.

Reginald Edwin Eyre, esquire, Birmingham, Hall Green.

William Winter Hamilton, esquire, Central Fife.

Robert James Adley, esquire, Christchurch and Lymington.

William John Biffen, esquire, Oswestry.

Alan David Walder, esquire, ERD, Clitheroe.

Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, baronet, Ealing, Acton.

William Michael John Grylls, esquire, North West Surrey.

Sir Anthony Henry Fanshawe Royle, KCMG, Richmond upon Thames, Richmond.

William Richard Benyon, esquire, Buckingham.

William Ross, esquire, Londonderry.

John Alexander Corrie, esquire, Bute and North Ayrshire.

Hugh Emlyn Hooson, esquire, QC, Montgomery.

George Arthur Gardiner, esquire, Reigate.

Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew, esquire, QC, Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Douglas Henderson, esquire, East Aberdeenshire.

Dr. Jesse Dickson Mabon, Greenock and Port Glasgow.

Michael English, esquire, Nottingham West.

Gwilym Edffrwd Roberts, esquire, Cannock.

Eric Moonman, esquire, Basildon.

Albert William Stallard, esquire, Camden, St. Pancras North.

Michael Joseph O'Halloran, esquire, Islington North.

Robert Edwards, esquire, Wolverhampton South East.

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John Laurence Garrett, esquire, Norwich South.

Gordon Alexander Thomas Bagier, esquire, Sunderland South.

Terence William Walker, esquire, Kingswood.

Bernard Conlan, esquire, Gateshead East.

Harry George Lamborn, esquire, Southwark, Peckham.

George Robert Cryer, esquire, Keighley.

Dennis Edward Skinner, esquire, Bolsover.

Thomas William Torney, esquire, Bradford, South.

Frank Ashcroft Judd, esquire, Portsmouth North.

Neil Gordon Kinnock, esquire, Bedwellty.

Ian Campbell, esquire, West Dunbartonshire.

Peter Charles Snape, esquire, West Bromwich East.

John Ryman, esquire, Blyth.

George Grant, esquire, Morpeth.

Raymond Fletcher, esquire, Ilkeston.

Frank Richard White, esquire, Bury and Radcliffe.

Robert Kilroy-Silk, esquire, Ormskirk.

James Mark Craigen, esquire, Glasgow, Maryhill.

Lynda, Mrs. Chalker, Wallasey.

Victor Henry Goodhew, esquire, St. Albans.

Julius Silverman, esquire, Birmingham, Erdington.

Douglas Richard Hurd, esquire, CBE, commonly called the honourable Douglas Richard Hurd, Mid-Oxon.

James White, esquire, Glasgow, Pollok.

Dr. Edmund Ian Marshall, Goole.

Antony Harold Newton, esquire, Braintree

David Wright Young, esquire, Bolton East.

Walter Clegg, esquire, North Fylde.

Alastair Robertson Goodlad, esquire, Northwich.

Leslie John Huckfield, esquire, Nuneaton.

Richard Napier Luce, esquire, Shoreham.

Michael Neubert, esquire, Havering, Romford.

Michael James Hugh Alison, esquire, Barkston Ash.

Right Honourable Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, Taunton.

Alfred Wiliam Wiggin, esquire, TD, Weston-super-Mare.

Hugh John Dykes, esquire, Harrow East.

Ronald Richard Thomas, esquire, Bristol North-West.

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Michael Alfred Noble, esquire, Rossendale.

Philip Whitehead, esquire, Derby North.

Robert Finlayson Cook, esquire, Edinburgh Central.

Cecil Edward Parkinson, esquire, South Hertfordshire.

Sir Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan, DSO, MC, Howden.

Eldon Wylie Griffiths, esquire, Bury St. Edmunds.

Ian William Wrigglesworth, esquire, Teesside, Thornaby.

Jeremy William Bray, esquire, Motherwell and Wishaw.

Martin Henry Flannery, esquire, Sheffield, Hillsborough.

Arthur Stanley Newens, esquire, Harlow.

Right honourable Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Grantham.

Ioan Lyonel Evans, esquire, Aberdare.

Sydney James Bidwell, esquire, Ealing, Southall.

Laurence Anstice Pavitt, esquire, Brent South.

George Cunningham, esquire, Islington South and Finsbury.

Gerard Fitt, esquire, Belfast West.

Maxwell Francis Madden, esquire, Sowerby.

Michael Francis Lovell Cocks, esquire, Bristol South.

Nigel John Spearing, esquire, Newham South.

Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer, baronet, West Flint.

Raymond John Carter, esquire, Birmingham, Northfield.

David John Watkins, esquire, Consett.

Alan James Beith, esquire, Berwick upon Tweed.

Right honourable Francis Leslie Pym, MC, Cambridgeshire.

Albert Edward Patrick Duffy, esquire, Sheffield, Attercliffe.

Geoffrey Edge, esquire, Aldridge-Brownhills.

John Michael Hubert Lee, esquire, Birmingham, Handsworth.

Alastair Brian Walden, esquire, Birmingham, Ladywood.

John Frederick Ovenden, esquire, Gravesend.

Russell Whiston Kerr, esquire, Hounslow, Feltharn and Heston.

William Edward Garrett, esquire, Wallsend.

Audrey, Mrs. Wise, Coventry South West.

Vera Joan Maynard, Sheffield, Brightside.

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John Wentworth Pardoe, esquire, North Cornwall.

Dr. Gerard Folliott Vaughan, Reading South.

Michael John Mates, esquire, Petersfield.

Edward Leadbitter, esquire, Hartlepool.

4.28 p.m.
Mr. Speaker: I suspend the sitting till five o'clock.
5 p.m.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Robert Gordon Cooke, esquire, Bristol West.

Philip Carter Goodhart, esquire, Bromley, Beckenham.

Thomas Russell Fairgrieve, esquire, West Aberdeenshire.

John Paul Stanley, esquire, Tonbridge and Malling.

Roger Edward Sims, esquire, Bromley, Chislehurst.

Alfred George Fletcher Hall-Davis, esquire, Morecambe and Lonsdale.

James Esmond Bulmer, esquire, Kidder-minster.

Spencer Le Marchant, esquire, High Peak.

Alan Lee Williams, esquire, OBE, Havering, Hornchurch.

Right honourable John Thomson Stone-house, Walsall North.

Right honourable Sir John Benedict Eden, baronet, Bournemouth West.

Geoffrey Johnson Smith, esquire, East Grinstead.

Robert Arthur McCrindle, esquire, Brentwood and Ongar.

Nicholas Paul Scott, esquire, MBE, Kensington and Chelsea, Chelsea.

David Martin Scott Steel, esquire, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles.

David Charles Penhaligon, esquire, Truro.

William Thomas Williams, esquire, QC, Warrington.

William Geraint Oliver Morgan, esquire, QC, Denbigh.

Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn, esquire, QC, Kinross and West Perthshire.

Kenneth Wilfred Baker, esquire, City of Westminster, St. Marylebone.

Joan Lestor, Eton and Slough.

John Jakob Mendelson, esquire, Penistone.

Albert Edward Booth, esquire, Barrow-in-Furness.

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Greville Ewan Janner, esquire, QC, commonly called the honourable Greville Ewan Janner, Leicester West.

John Anthony Grant, esquire, Harrow Central.

John Michael Gorst, esquire, Barnet, Hendon North.

William David Madel, esquire, South Bedfordshire.

George Kenneth Hotson Younger, esquire, TD, commonly called the honourable George Kenneth Hotson Younger, Ayr.

Michael Hugh Meacher, esquire, Oldham West.

Gavin Steel Strang, esquire, Edinburgh East.

John Leonard Hunt, esquire, Bromley, Ravensbourne.

John Maracus Fox, esquire, MBE, Shipley.

William Fergus Montgomery, esquire, Altrincham and Sale.

Robert Adrian Hicks, esquire, Bodmin.

Arthur Charles Latham, esquire, City of Westminster, Paddington.

Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, esquire, Blackpool South.

James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, esquire, commonly called Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Edinburgh West.

Robert Ernest Bean, esquire, Rochester and Chatham.

Arthur John Page, esquire, Harrow West.

Thomas Michael Jopling, esquire, Westmorland.

William Watson Small, esquire, Glasgow, Garscadden.

Nicholas Raymond Winterton, esquire, Macclesfield.

Robert Parry, esquire, Liverpool, Scotland Exchange.

Julian Michael Gordon Critchley, esquire, Aldershot.

John Edward Michael Moore, esquire, Croydon Central.

John Rankin Rathbone, esquire, Lewes.

Julian Michael Shersby, esquire, Hillingdon, Uxbridge.

Ronald McMillan Bell, esquire, QC, Beaconsfield.

Cyril David Townsend, esquire, Bexley, Bexleyheath.

James Henry Molyneaux, esquire, South Antrim.

David Bower Mitchell, esquire, Basingstoke.

Adam Courtauld Butler, esquire, commonly called the honourable Adam Courtauld Butler, Bosworth.

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John William Frederic Nott, esquire, St. Ives.

Marcus Richard Kimball, esquire, Gainsborough.

Daniel Jones, esquire, BEM, Burnley.

Arthur Davidson, esquire, Accrington.

Harold Walker, esquire, Doncaster.

Christopher Price, esquire, Lewisham West.

Walter Ian Percival, esquire, QC, Southport.

Bryant Godman Irvine, esquire, Rye.

5.20 p.m.
Mr. Speaker: I suspend the sitting till six o'clock.
6 p.m.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

John Deane Spence, esquire, Thirsk and Malton.

John Desmond Cronin, esquire, Loughborough.

Frederick Frank Arthur Burden, esquire, Gillingham.

Denis Herbert Howell, esquire, Birmingham, Small Heath.

William Rupert Rees-Davies, esquire, QC, Thanet West.

Jeffrey William Rooker, esquire, Birmingham, Perry Barr.

Alfred Bates, esquire, Bebington and Ellesmere Port.

Bryan Magee, esquire, Waltham Forest, Leyton.

George Burnaby Drayson, esquire, Skipton.

Sir Stephen James McAdden, CBE, Southend East.

John Ambrose Cope, esquire, South Gloucestershire.

Andrew Bowden, esquire, MBE, Brighton, Kemptown.

Peter Maudslay Hordern, esquire, Horsham and Crawley.

Kenneth Harry Clarke, esquire, Rushcliffe.

Bernard John Hayhoe, esquire, Hounslow, Brentford and Isleworth.

Toby Francis Henry Jessel, esquire,

Richmond upon Thames, Twickenham.

John Holbrook Osborn esquire, Sheffield, Hallam.

Neil George Carmichael, esquire, Glasgow, Kelvingrove.

Ian Reginald Edward Gow, esquire, Eastbourne.

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Arthur Montague Frank Palmer, esquire, Bristol North East.

Neville Guthrie Trotter, esquire, Tynemouth.

Keith Monin Stainton, esquire, Sudbury and Woodbridge.

John Giles Dunkerley Shaw, esquire, Pudsey.

Right honourable Sir Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, baronet, TD, QC, East Hertfordshire.

William George Price, esquire, Rugby.

Sir Timothy Peter Geoffrey Kitson, Richmond, Yorks.

Geraint Wyn Howells, esquire, Cardigan.

Jeffrey Thomas, esquire, QC, Abertillery.

Thomas William Urwin, esquire, Houghton-le-Spring.

Ivan John Lawrence, esquire, Burton.

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Sir Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, QC, Merton, Wimbledon.

George Colin Jackson, esquire, Brighouse and Spenborough.

Sir John Hall, OBE, TD, Wycombe.

Edward Lyons, esquire, QC, Bradford West.

Hugh Gater Jenkins, esquire, Wandsworth, Putney.

Michael Wolfgang Laurence Morris, esquire, Northampton South.

ADJOURNMENT
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Tomorrow at half-past Two o'clock.—[Mr. Harper.]
Adjourned accordingly at a quarter past Six o'clock.