Commons Sitting of 29 April 1992

Preamble
The House met at half-past Two o'clock

PRAYERS
[MADAM SPEAKER in the Chair]
Madam Speaker: It may be for the convenience of the House if I indicate that, after calling all hon. Members in the Chamber to take the Oath or to affirm, I shall suspend the sitting until 5 o'clock. That will be the last occasion today. Tomorrow, I shall again be in the Chair from 2.30 pm, but I intend to finish not later than 4.30 pm.

Members Sworn
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:

Right honourable John Roddick Russell MacGregor, OBE, South Norfolk.

Right honourable Sir John Ambrose Cope, Northavon.

Right honourable Peter David Shore, Bethnal Green and Stepney.

Stephen James Dorrell, esquire, Loughborough.

Mostyn Neil Hamilton, esquire, Tatton.

John Patrick Butcher, esquire, Coventry, South West

Gwyneth Patricia, Mrs. Dunwoody, commonly called the honourable Mrs. Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody, Crewe and Nantwich.

Dennis Andrew Canavan, esquire, Falkirk, West.

Robert John Dunn, esquire, Dartford.

George Robert Cryer, esquire, Bradford, South.

Sir John Giles Dunkerley Shaw, Pudsey.

Elizabeth Joan, Mrs. Peacock, Batley and Spen.

Terence Lewis, esquire, Worsley.

Brian Donohoe, esquire, Cunninghame, South.

Edward O'Hara, esquire, Knowsley, South.

Michael Charles Stern, esquire, Bristol, North West.

Right honourable David John Denzil Davies, Llanelli.

Right honourable Ronald Timothy Renton, Mid Sussex.

Dennis Edward Skinner, esquire, Bolsover.

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, esquire, Islington North.

William David Trimble, esquire, Upper Bann.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone, esquire, Brent East.

William Rhys Powell, esquire, Corby.

George Galloway, esquire, Glasgow, Hillhead.

David Anthony Evennett, esquire, Erith and Crayford.

David Anthony Gerald Sumberg, esquire, Bury South.

John Yorke Denham, esquire, Southampton, Itchen.

Sir Robert Michael Marshall, Arundel.

Right honourable David John Mellor, Q.C., Putney.

Neil Francis Gerrard, esquire, Walthamstow.

Terry Patchett, esquire, Barnsley East.

Michael Hugh Meacher, esquire, Oldham West.

William James Clappison, esquire, Hertsmere.

Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, East Lindsay.

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken, esquire, South Thanet.

Francis Nigel Forman, esquire, Carshalton and Wallington.

Douglas Charles French, esquire, Gloucester.

William Nigel Paul Cash, esquire, Stafford.

Bernard Christison Jenkin, esquire, Colchester North.

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Jeremy Joseph James Hayes, esquire, Harlow.

Sybil Judith, Mrs. Chaplin, Newbury.

Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway, esquire, Croydon, South.

Eric Jack Pickles, esquire, Brentwood and Ongar.

Niranjan Joseph Aditya Deva, esquire, Brentford and Isleworth.

Sir Michael Jon Neubert, Romford.

Gordon Prentice, esquire, Pendle.

Bridget Theresa, Mrs. Prentice, Lewisham, East.

Audrey, Mrs. Wise, Preston.

Roger Edward Sims, esquire, Chislehurst.

Roger Maurice Knapman, esquire, Stroud.

Right honourable Thomas Jeremy King, CH, Bridgwater.

Dr. Charles Goodson-Wickes, Wimbledon.

Peter Harry Steve Griffiths, esquire, Portsmouth, North.

Nigel Christopher Waterson, esquire, Eastbourne.

David Anthony Andrew Amess, esquire, Basildon.

David Anthony Atkinson, esquire, Bournemouth, East.

Gary Peter Anthony Waller, esquire, Keighley.

Hywel Rhodri Morgan, esquire, Cardiff, West.

Right honourable Henry Paul Guinness Channon, Southend, West.

Michael Russell Brown, esquire, Brigg and Cleethorpes.

John Arbuthnot Ducane Wilkinson, esquire, Ruislip-Northwood.

Right honourable Alastair Robertson Goodlad, Eddisbury.

Harriet Ruth Harman, Peckham.

Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Dulwich.

Bruce Thomas George, esquire, Walsall, South.

Angela Eagle, Wallasey.

John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, esquire, Colchester, South and Maldon.

Antony Rivers Marlow, esquire, Northampton, North.

David Alan Keen, esquire, Feltham and Heston.

Catherine Letitia Hoey, Vauxhall.

Peter Butler, esquire, North East Milton Keynes.

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

Sir John Anthony Grant, South West Cambridgeshire.

James Theodore Lester, esquire, Broxstowe.

Sir Gerard Folliott Vaughan, Reading, East.

Sir William Fergus Montgomery, Altrincham and Sale.

John David McWilliam, esquire, Blaydon.

Michael Wolfgang Laurence Morris, esquire, Northampton, South.

Anthony Michael Vincent Coombs, esquire, Wyre Forest.

Samuel Laird Galbraith, esquire, Strathkelvin and Bearsden.

Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant, esquire, Tottenham.

Right honourable Neil Gordon Kinnock, Islwyn.

Right honourable William Armand Thomas Tristan Garel-Jones, Watford.

Mark Fisher, esquire, North Durham.

Giles, Heneage Radice, esquire, North Durham.

Timothy John Smith, esquire, Beaconsfield.

Maxwell Francil Madden, esquire, Bradford, West.

Thomas Michael Cox, esquire, Tooting.

John Francis Spellar, esquire, Warley, West.

Peter Temple-Morris, esquire, Leominster.

Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body, Holland with Boston.

Martyn David Jones, esquire, Clywd, South West.

Roger Norman Freeman, esquire, Kettering.

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John Leslie Prescott, esquire, Kingston upon Hull, East.

Right honourable David James Fletcher Hunt, MBE, Wirral, West.

Ian McCartney, esquire, Makerfield.

Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, esquire, commonly called the honourable Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, Crawley.

Nicholas Hugh Brown, esquire, Newcastle upon Tyne, East.

Nicholas William Budgen, esquire, Wolverhampton, South West.

Geoffrey Robinson, esquire, Coventry, North West.

Barry Charles Legg, esquire, Milton Keynes, South West.

Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd, esquire, Aldridge-Brownhills.

William Michael Hardy Spicer, esquire, South Worcestershire.

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Sir Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn, QC, Perth and Kinross.

Clive Stafford Soley, esquire. Hammersmith.

Geoffrey Mark Wolfson, esquire, Sevenoaks.

Stephen David Wyatt Milligan, esquire, Eastleigh.

Roger Duncan Godsiff, esquire, Birmingham, Small Heath.

Right honourable Harold Walker, Doncaster, Central.

Matthew Owen John Taylor, esquire, Truro.

Right honourable Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Birmingham, Sparkbrook.

Phillip Anthony Charles Lawrence Oppenheim, esquire, Amber Valley.

Sir William Michael John Grylls, North West Surrey.

Vivian Walter Hough Bendall, esquire, Ilford, North.

ADJOURNMENT
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till tomorrow at half-past Two o'clock.—[Mr. Andrew MacKay.]
Adjourned accordingly at half-past Five o'clock.