§ Mr. Paddy Ashdown, supported by Mr. David Alton, Mr. A. J. Beith, Mr. John Cartwright, Mr. Clement Freud, Mr. Simon Hughes, Mr. Michael Meadowcroft, Mr. David Penhaligon, Mr. Stephen Ross and Mr. Richard Wainwright presented a Bill to establish regional assemblies in England; to provide for the transfer of functions to those Assemblies; to make consequential changes in the government of the United Kingdom; and for connected purposes; And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 4 May and to be printed. [Bill 120.]