§ Madam SpeakerI 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, but first I must do so myself.
Thereupon MADAM SPEAKER first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.
§ Madam SpeakerBefore Members proceed to the taking of the Oath, I regret to have to report to the House the death of Sir Michael Shersby, Member for Uxbridge. I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House will join me in mourning the loss of a colleague and extending sympathy to the hon. Member's family and his friends.
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. I propose to call, first, the Father of the House; then the Cabinet; then the shadow Cabinet; then all the Privy Councillors not included in those two groups, wherever they may be sitting, and then other Ministers. Thereafter I shall call other hon. Members according to seniority determined by the basis of seniority, that is by the Parliament of first entry or, for those with broken service, that of most recent entry.
The first batch will be those elected in or before 1974. Thereafter I shall proceed by successive Parliaments. I hope by late this afternoon to have made sufficient progress to enable all Members to swear in who wish to do so up to and including those elected to the 1992 Parliament. The House will sit again tomorrow at 9.30, when I shall call those Members first elected to the current Parliament as well as Members elected to earlier Parliaments who were not able to take the Oath today.
Finally, the House will meet again next Tuesday at 2.30 to enable Members to take the Oath who have not done so this week.
I hope that this announcement will be helpful to Members in planning their programmes. Progress will depend, of course, on the number of Members wishing to take the Oath at any particular time. I advise Members to watch the annunciators to establish progress and to speak to their Whips. I hope also that Members will come forward in an orderly manner. Let us now begin.
§ The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
§ Right honourable Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE, Old Bexley and Sidcup
§ Right honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Sedgefield
§ Right honourable John Major, Huntingdon
§ Right honourable John Leslie Prescott, Kingston upon Hull, East
§ Right honourable Winifred Ann, Mrs. Taylor, Dewsbury Right honourable Robert Finlayson Cook, Livingston
§ Right honourable James Gordon Brown, Dunfermline, East
§ Right honourable John Whitaker Straw, Blackburn
§ Right honourable Margaret Mary, Mrs. Beckett, Derby, South
15§ Right honourable Gavin Steel Strang, Edinburgh, East and Musselburgh
§ Right honourable David George Clark, South Shields
§ Right honourable Marjorie Mowlam, Redcar
§ Right honourable George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Hamilton, South
§ Right honourable Alistair Maclean Darling, Edinburgh, Central
§ Right honourable Ronald Davies, Caerphilly
§ Right honourable John Anderson Cunningham, Copeland
§ Right honourable Frank Gordon Dobson, Holborn and St. Pancras
§ Right honourable Clare Short, Birmingham, Ladywood
§ Right honourable David Blunkett, Sheffield, Brightside
§ Right honourable Harriet Ruth Harman, Camberwell and Peckham
§ Right honourable Christopher Robert Smith, Islington, South and Finsbury
§ Right honourable Donald Campbell Dewar, Glasgow, Anniesland
§ Right honourable Kenneth Harry Clarke QC, Rushcliffe
§ Right honourable Nicholas Hugh Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne, East and Wallsend
§ Right honourable Brian Stanley Mawhinney, North-West Cambridgeshire
§ Right honourable Michael Howard QC, Folkestone and Hythe
§ Right honourable Alistair Robertson Goodlad, Eddisbury
§ Right honourable Douglas Martin Hogg QC, Sleaford and North Hykeham
§ Right honourable Gillian Patricia, Mrs. Shephard, South-West Norfolk
§ Right honourable Peter Bruce Lilley, Hitchen and Harpenden
§ Right honourable William Jefferson Hague, Richmond, Yorks
§ Right honourable Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Yeovil
§ Right honourable Alan James Beith, Berwick-upon-Tweed
§ Right honourable Gerald Bernard Kaufman, Manchester, Gorton
§ Right honourable Robert Edward Sheldon, Ashton under Lyne
§ Right honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, Chesterfield
§ Right honourable Alan John Williams, Swansea, West
§ Right honourable Sir Peter Frank Hannibal Emery, East Devon
§ Right honourable Sir Peter Robert Cable Lloyd, Fareham
§ Right honourable David John Maclean, Penrith and The Border
§ Right honourable David Maurice Curry, Skipton and Ripon
§ Right honourable David Michael Davis, Haltemprice and Howden
16§ Right honourable Eric Forth, Bromley and Chislhurst
§ Right honourable John David Taylor, Strangford
§ Right honourable John Michael Jack, Fylde
§ Right honourable Michael Ancram, Devizes
§ Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, esquire, Horsham
§ Right honourable Ann Noreen Widdecombe, Maidstone and The Weald
§ Right honourable Peter Leonard Brooke CH, Cities of London and Westminster
§ Right honourable Sir John Paul Stanley, Tonbridge and Malling
§ Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Norh Antrim
§ Dafydd Wigley, esquire, Caernarfon
§ Margaret Anne, Mrs. Ewing, Moray
§ Winston James Griffiths, esquire, Bridgend
§ Samuel Laird Gallbraith, esquire, Strathkelvin and Bearsden
§ Peter Kilfoyle, esquire, Liverpool, Walton
§ Walton John Hume, esquire, Foyle
§ John McFall, esquire, Dumbarton
§ Jonathan Owen Jones, esquire, Cardiff, Central
§ Peter Gerald Hain, esquire, Neath
§ George Foulkes, esquire, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
§ James Patrick Dowd, esquire, Lewisham, West
§ Jane Elizabeth, Mrs. Kennedy, Liverpool, Wavertree
§ Gregory James Pope, esquire, Hyndburn
§ Bridget Theresa, Mrs. Prentice, Lewisham, East
§ Kim Scott Howells, esquire, Pontypridd
§ Right honourable Thomas Jeremy King CH, Bridgwater
§ Graham William Allen, esquire, Nottingham, North
§ Keith John Charles Bradley, esquire, Manchester, Withington
§ Robert William Ainsworth, esquire, Coventry, North-East
§ Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, Louth and Horncastle
§ Robert Adam Ross Maclennan, esquire, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
§ Alan Thomas Howarth, esquire, CBE, Newport, East Paul Yaw Boateng, esquire, Brent, South
§ Malcolm George Richardson Chisholm, esquire, Edinburgh, North and Leith
§ Geoffrey William Hoon, esquire, Ashfield
§ Kevin Michael Hughes, esquire, Doncaster, North
§ John Francis Spellar, esquire, Warley
§ Anthony Worthington, esquire, Clydebank and Milngavie
§ Estelle Morris, Birmingham, Yardley
§ Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy, esquire, Glasgow, Rutherglen
§ Clive James Charles Betts, esquire, Sheffield, Attercliffe
§ Elliot Anthony Morley, esquire, Scunthorpe
§ Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body, Boston and Skegness
§ Stephen Barry Jones, esquire, Alyn and Deeside
§ Dennis Edward Skinner, esquire, Bolsover
17§ Thomas Michael Cox, esquire, Tooting
§ Sir William David Madel, South-West Bedfordshire
§ Sir Patrick Thomas Cormack, South Staffordshire
§ Nicholas Raymond Winterton, esquire, Macclesfield
§ Roger Stott, esquire, CBE, Wigan
§ Sir William Michael Hardy Spicer, West Worcestershire
§ Bruce Thomas George, esquire, Walsall, South
§ Andrew Francis Bennett, esquire, Denton and Reddish
§ Dennis Andrew Canavan, esquire, Falkirk, West
§ William Ross, esquire, East Londonderry
§ Right honourable Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, Wealden
§ Sir Raymond William Whitney OBE, Wycombe
§ John David Home Robertson, esquire, East Lothian
§ Brian Charles Sedgemore, esquire, Hackney, South and Shoreditch
§ Sir Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Saffron Walden
§ Richard Lewis Page, esquire, South-West Hertfordshire
§ Giles Heneage Radice, esquire, North Durham
§ Dale Norman Campbell-Savours, esquire, Workington
§ David Marshall, esquire, Glasgow, Shettleston
§ Ernest Ross, esquire. Dundee, West
§ John Alston Maxton, esquire, Glasgow, Cathcart
§ Lawrence Francis Cunliffe, esquire, Leigh
§ Sir Sydney Brookes Chapman, Chipping Barnet
§ Martin John O'Neill, esquire, Ochil
§ Sir Raymond Powell, Ogmore
§ Andrew Welsh, esquire, Angus
§ David Julian Winnick, esquire, Walsall, North
§ Michael John Martin, esquire, Glasgow, Springburn
§ Sir Edward Macmillan Taylor, Rochford and Southend, East
§ Michael Keith Beale Colvin, esquire. Romsey
§ James Marshall, esquire, Leicester, South
§ Clive Stafford Soley, esquire, Ealing. Acton and Shepherds Bush
§ Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd, esquire, Aldridge-Brownhills
§ John Arbuthnot Du Cane Wilkinson, esquire, Ruislip-Northwood
§ John David McWilliam, esquire, Blaydon
§ Frank Field, esquire, Birkenhead
§ Reverend William Martin Smyth, Belfast, South
§ Right honourable Stephen James Dorrell, Charnwood
§ Marion Audrey, Mrs. Roe, Broxbourne
§ Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, esquire, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
§ Simon Robert Key, esquire, Salisbury
§ Roger James Gale, esquire, North Thanet
§ Charles Frederick Wardle, esquire, Bexhill and Battle
§ Jane Ann, Mrs. Winterton, Congleton
§ Clifford Forsythe, esquire, South Antrim
§ Alfred Cecil Walker, esquire, Belfast, North
§ William Michie. esquire, Sheffield, Heeley
§ Roy Beggs, esquire, East Antrim
18§ Andrew James MacKay, esquire, Bracknell
§ John Valentine Butterfill, esquire, Bournemouth, West
§ Francis Cook, esquire, Stockton, North
§ Norman Anthony Godman, esquire, Greenock and Inverclyde
§ John Mark Taylor, esquire, Solihull
§ Michael Nicholson Lord, esquire, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
§ Peter Leslie Pike, esquire, Burnley
§ James Robert Wallace, esquire, Orkney and Shetland
§ Charles Peter Kennedy, esquire, Ross, Skye and Inverness, West
§ Robert Nelson Wareing, esquire, Liverpool, West Derby
§ Terence Anthony Gordon Davis, esquire, Birmingham, Hodge Hill
§ Robin Corbett, esquire, Birmingham, Erdington
§ Malcolm Gray Bruce, esquire, Gordon
§ Ann Clwyd, Cynon Valley
§ William O'Brien, esquire, Normanton
§ Patrick Allen McLoughlin, esquire, West Derbyshire
§ Andrew Robert Frederick Hunter, esquire, Basingstoke
§ Robert Victor Jackson, esquire, Wantage
§ David Martin Hinchliffe, esquire, Wakefield
§ Audrey, Mrs. Wise, Preston
§ Alice, Mrs. Mahon, Halifax
§ Maria, Mrs. Fyfe, Glasgow, Maryhill
§ Simon Henry Ward Hughes, esquire, North Southwark and Bermondsey
§ Eric Evelyn Illsley, esquire, Barnsley, Central
§ Harold Barnes, esquire, North-East Derbyshire
§ John Scott Cummings, esquire, Easington
§ Ronald Campbell, esquire, Blyth Valley
§ Donald Anderson, esquire, Swansea, East
§ Gerald Neil Steinberg, esquire, City of Durham
§ Timothy Eric Boswell, esquire, Daventry
§ Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns, esquire, Chelmsford
§ Patrick Charles Martyn Nicholls, esquire, Teignbridge
§ James Douglas Cran, esquire, Beverley and Holderness
§ Christopher John Fred Gill. RD, esquire, Ludlow
§ John McAllion, esquire, Dundee, East
§ James Hood, esquire, Clydesdale
§ Matthew Owen John Taylor, esquire, Truro and St. Austell
§ Ieuan Wyn Jones, esquire, Ynys Môn
§ Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant, esquire, Tottenham
§ Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond, esquire, Banff and Buchan
§ James Wray, esquire, Glasgow, Baillieston
§ David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick, esquire, Bosworth
§ Joan Mary, Mrs. Ruddock, Lewisham, Deptford
§ Frank Doran, esquire, Aberdeen, Central
§ Christopher John Mullin, esquire, Sunderland, South
§ Eric Anthony Martlew, esquire, Carlisle
19§ James Norwich Arbuthnot, esquire, North-East Hampshire
§ Ian Cameron Bruce, esquire, South Dorset
§ Janet Ray, Mrs. Michie, Argyll and Bute
§ Stephen Richard Day, esquire, Cheadle
§ Catherine Letitia Hoey, Vauxhall
§ William David Trimble, esquire, Upper Bann
§ Right honourable Sir Archibald Gavin Hamilton, Epsom and Ewell
§ Paul Phillip Flynn, esquire, Newport, West
§ William John Olner, esquire, Nuneaton
§ James Dolan Cunningham, esquire, Coventry, South
§ Piara Singh Khabra, esquire, Ealing, Southall
§ David George Hanson, esquire, Delyn
§ Edward Henry Gamier, esquire, Harborough
§ Andrew Peter Miller, esquire, Ellesmere Port and Neston
§ Rachel Anne Squire, Dunfermline, West
§ Malcolm Douglas Moss, esquire, North-East Cambridgeshire
§ Gary Nicholas Streeter, esquire, South-West Devon
§ Jean Ann Corston, Bristol, East
§ George William Stevenson, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, South
§ William James Clappison, esquire, Hertsmere
§ Nicholas Richard Ainger, esquire, Carmarthen, West and South Pembrokeshire
§ Oliver Heald, esquire, North-East Hertfordshire
§ Adam Paterson Ingram, esquire, East Kilbride
§ Martyn David Jones, esquire, Clwyd, South
§ Michael Clapham, esquire, Barnsley, West and Penistone
§ Jeff Ennis, esquire, Barnsley, East and Mexborough
§ Angela Frances, Mrs. Browning, Tiverton and Honiton
§ Peter Landreth Atkinson, esquire, Hexham
§ Katherine, Mrs. Adams, Paisley, North
§ Roger Duncan Godsiff, esquire, Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath
§ Lynne Mary Jones, Birmingham, Selly Oak
§ Neil Francis Gerrard, esquire, Walthamstow
§ Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, esquire, Leicester, East
§ Margaret Eve, Mrs. Hodge MBE, Barking
§ Thomas Pendry, esquire, Stalybridge and Hyde
§ John Marek, esquire, Wrexham
§ Bruce Joseph Grocott. esquire, Telford
§ John Matthew Patrick Hutton, esquire, Barrow and Furness
§ Donald Michael Ellison Foster, esquire, Bath
§ Helen Margaret, Mrs. Jackson, Sheffield, Hillsborough
§ David William George Chidgey, esquire, Eastleigh
§ Michael St. John Trend, esquire, Windsor
§ James Keith Chapman, esquire, Wirral, South
§ Huw William Edmund Edwards, esquire, Monmouth
20§ William John Gunnell, esquire, Morley and Rothwell
§ James Donnelly Touhig, esquire, Islwyn
§ Hugh Bayley, esquire, City of York
§ George lain Duncan Smith, esquire, Chingford and Woodford Green
§ Nicholas John Hawkins, esquire, Surrey Heath
§ Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Dulwich and West Norwood
§ Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Gateshead, East and Washington, West
§ Alan Milburn, esquire, Darlington
§ William Etherington, esquire, Sunderland, North
§ Gwyneth Patricia, Mrs. Dunwoody, Crewe and Nantwich
§ Brian David Henderson Wilson, esquire, Cunninghame, North
§ Cheryl Elise Kendall, Mrs. Gillan, Chesham and Amersham
§ John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, esquire, OBE, Maldon and East Chelmsford
§ Geoffrey Robert Clifton Brown, esquire, Cotswold
§ Roseanna Cunningham, Perth
§ Peter James Bottomley, esquire, Worthing, West
§ Gerry Sutcliffe, esquire, Bradford, South
§ Richard Haines Burden, esquire, Birmingham, Northfield
§ Joan Lorraine Walley, Stoke-on-Trent, North
§ Ian Phares Pearson, esquire, Dudley, South
§ James Edward Thornton Paice, esquire, South-East Cambridgeshire
§ Denis MacShane, esquire, Rotherham
§ Michael Connarty, esquire, Falkirk, East
§ Richard Spring, esquire, West Suffolk
§ John Heppell, esquire, Nottingham, East
§ Michael Louis David Fabricant, esquire, Lichfield
§ David Digby Rendel, esquire, Newbury
§ Jon Hedley Trickett, esquire, Hemsworth
§ Simon Patrick Tipping, esquire, Sherwood
§ Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, esquire, Mid Sussex
§ Bernard Christison Jenkin, esquire, North Essex
§ Dr. Anthony Wayland Wright, Cannock Chase
§ Gordon Prentice, esquire, Pendle
§ Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh, Vale of York
§ Christopher James Fraser, esquire, Mid Dorset and North Poole
§ Keith Robert Simpson, esquire, Mid Norfolk
§ Julian Murray Lewis, esquire, New Forest, East
§ Owen William Paterson, esquire, North Shropshire
§ Howard Emerson Flight, esquire, Arundel and South Downs
§ Barbara Maureen, Mrs. Roche, Hornsey and Wood Green
§ Laurence Anthony Robertson, esquire, Tewkesbury
§ Right honourable Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, North-West Hampshire
§ Robert Andrew Raymond Syms, esquire, Poole
§ Anthony Colman, esquire, Putney
§ Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw, esquire, Exeter
21§ Fraser Kemp, esquire, Houghton and Washington, East
§ Ian Arthur Cawsey, esquire, Brigg and Goole
§ Rudolf Jan Vis, esquire, Finchley and Golders Green
§ Andrew David Lansley, esquire, South Cambridgeshire
§ Michael Thomas Hancock, esquire, Portsmouth, South
§ Richard Arthur Lloyd Livsey, esquire, Brecon and Radnorshire
§ Lembit Opik, esquire, Montgomeryshire
§ Jennifer Louise Tonge, Richmond Park
§ Edward Jonathon Davey, esquire, Kingston and Surbiton
§ Paul Kenneth Burstow, esquire, Sutton and Cheam
§ Denis Murphy, esquire, Wansbeck
§ Julian William Hendy Brazier, esquire, TD, Canterbury
§ Paul Archer Tyler, esquire, CBE, North Cornwall
§ Malcolm Hunt Wicks, esquire, Croydon, North
§ Desmond Stanley Turner, esquire, Brighton, Kemptown
§ Peter Michael Ainsworth, esquire, East Surrey
§ Christine Margaret Butler, Castle Point
§ Helen Mary Jones, Warrington, North
§ Jovanka Humble, Blackpool, North and Fleetwood
§ Andrew Hartley Dismore, esquire, Hendon
§ Anthony James McNulty, esquire, Harrow, East
§ James Fitzpatrick, esquire, Poplar and Canning Town
§ Llewellyn Thomas Smith, esquire, Blaenau Gwent
§ Clare Judith Mallaber, Amber Valley
§ Linda Gilroy, Plymouth, Sutton
§ Christine Margaret Russell, City of Chester
§ Jennifer Grace Jones, Wolverhampton, South-West
§ Right honourable John Roddick Russell MacGregor OBE, South Norfolk
§ Roger Leslie Berry, esquire, Kingswood
§ Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, esquire, Lagan Valley
22§ John Martin McDonnell, esquire, Hayes and Harlington
§ Gareth Richard Thomas, esquire, Harrow, West
§ Mark Wainwright Todd, esquire, South Derbyshire
§ Ann Lloyd Keen, Brentford and Isleworth
§ Colin Burgon, esquire, Elmet
§ David Anthony Lock, esquire, Wyre Forest
§ John Cradock Maples, esquire, Stratford-on-Avon
§ Eleanor Fulton Laing, Epping Forest
§ Andrew Stunell, esquire, Hazel Grove
§ Melanie Jane Johnson, Welyn Hatfield
§ Phyllis Margaret Starkey, Milton Keynes, South-West
§ Jacqueline Jill Smith, Redditch
§ Paul Stuart Keetch, esquire, Hereford
§ William John Thompson, esquire, West Tyrone
§ Thomas Hilton Dawson, esquire, Lancaster and Wyre
§ Ann Coffey, Stockport
§ Ian Graham Davidson, esquire, Glasgow, Pollok
§ Anne Campbell, Cambridge
§ Harold Best, esquire, Leeds, North-West
§ Anthony Richard Clark, esquire, Northampton, South
§ Stephen Creswell Timms, esquire, East Ham
§ Donald Cameron Easterbrook Gorrie, esquire, Edinburgh, West
§ Paul Gerard Goggins, esquire, Wythenshawe and Sale, East
§ Hazel Anne Blears, Salford
§ Stephen Pelham Pound, esquire, Ealing, North