§ Mr. David Steel (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale)I have pleasure to present the House a petition, signed by over 1,800 people in my constituency and handed to me at the end of a large and successful public meeting, in the following terms:
We the undersigned people living or working in the Parliamentay Constituency of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, do hereby call on the Honourable Commons of the United Kingdom to urge Her Majesty's Government to call for a world-wide halt to the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems as a meaningful first step to reduction in nuclear arms.And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray etc.The petition has my full support.
§ To lie upon the Table.