HC Deb 17 October 1996 vol 282 c920

I pray that the blessing of Almighty God may' attend you.

A Commission was also read for proroguing this present Parliament, and the Lord Chancellor said: My Lords and Members of the House of Commons: by virtue of Her Majesty's Commission which has now been read, we do, in Her Majesty's name, and in obedience to Her Majesty's Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Wednesday the twenty-third day of this instant October, to be then here holden, and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Wednesday the twenty-third day of this instant October.

End of the Fourth Session (opened on 15 November 1995) of the Fifty-First Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in the Forty-Fifth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.