Commons Sitting of 19 June 2001

Preamble
The House met at half-past Two o'clock
PRAYERS
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]
PRAYERS

  Members Sworn
  Mr. Speaker: Order. May I request that the most senior Members are taken first and that junior Members draw back? I see Sir Peter Tapsell; he is a very senior Member.
  The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:

  Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, Louth and Horncastle

  Right honourable Alistair Maclean Darling, Edinburgh Central

  Right honourable Michael Hugh Meacher, Oldham West and Royton

  Right honourable Wyvill Richard Nicolls Raynsford, Greenwich and Woolwich

  Lewis George Moonie, Kirkcaldy

  Peter Gerald Hain, Neath

  Jane Elizabeth Kennedy, Liverpool, Wavertree

  Stephen Twigg, Enfield, Southgate

  Alan Patrick Vincent Whitehead, Southampton, Test

  John Healey, Wentworth

  George Iain Duncan Smith, Chingford and Woodford Green

  Right honourable Alan James Beith, Berwick-upon-Tweed

  Joan Lorraine Walley, Stoke-on-Trent North

  Right honourable Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo, Kensington and Chelsea

  Right honourable Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, North West Hampshire

  Jimmy Wray, Glasgow Baillieston

  Eddie McGrady, South Down

  Bob Blizzard, Waveney

  Michael John Mates, East Hampshire

  David Gordon Clelland, Tyne Bridge

  Right honourable Peter Bruce Lilley, Hitchin and Harpenden

  Right honourable Gillian Patricia Shephard, South West Norfolk

  Malcolm Douglas Moss, North East Cambridgeshire

  Brian Harold Donohoe, Cunninghame South

  Harry Michael Cohen, Leyton and Wanstead

  Right honourable Donald Anderson, Swansea East

  Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd, Aldridge-Brownhills

  Austin Vernon Mitchell, Great Grimsby

  Right honourable Sir John Paul Stanley, Tonbridge and Malling

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  David William George Chidgey, Eastleigh

  David Anthony Crausby, Bolton North East

  Malcolm Gray Bruce, Gordon

  Lindsay Harvey Hoyle, Chorley

  Eric Evlyn Illsley, Barnsley Central

  Llewellyn Thomas Smith, Blaenau Gwent

  Eric Jack Pickles, Brentwood and Ongar

  George Edward Howarth, Knowsley North and Sefton East

  Right honourable David John Denzil Davies, Llanelli

  Alan Arthur Johnson, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle

  Richard Lewis Page, South West Hertfordshire

  William Nigel Paul Cash, Stone

  Timothy Paul Loughton, East Worthing and Shoreham

  John Robert Greenway, Ryedale

  Peter Leslie Pike, Burnley

  Richard Haines Burden, Birmingham, Northfield

  Julian William Hendy Brazier, Canterbury

  Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Cotswold

  Peter James Luff, Mid Worcestershire

  Paul Gerrard Goggins, Wythenshawe and Sale East

  Derek Leslie Conway, Old Bexley and Sidcup

  James Dobbin, Heywood and Middleton

  Diana Mary Organ, Forest of Dean

  Nicholas Douglas Palmer, Broxtowe

  Paul Anthony Truswell, Pudsey

  Paul Tyler, North Cornwall

  Mohammed Sarwar, Glasgow Govan

  Brian Joseph Cotter, Weston-Super-Mare

  James Sheridan, West Renfrewshire

  John Lyons, Strathkelvin and Bearsden

  Debra Ann Shipley, Stourbridge

  Robert Andrew Raymond Syms, Poole

  Christopher Paul Farrelly, Newcastle-under-Lyme

  Betty Helena Williams, Conwy

  Fabian Hamilton, Leeds North East

  William Anthony Worthington, Clydebank and Milngavie

  Howard Geoffrey Alvan Stoate, Dartford

  James Mackay Cousins, Newcastle upon Tyne Central

  Angela Eileen Watkinson, Upminster

  James Whiteside Gray, North Wiltshire

  Jonathan Simon Djangoly, Huntingdon

  Paul William Barry Marsden, Shrewsbury and Atcham

  Adrian John Flook, Taunton

  Karen Patricia Buck, Regent's Park and Kensington North

  Michael John Foster, Worcester

  Ashok Kumar, Middlesborough South and East Cleveland

  Patrick John Mercer, Newark

  Andrew Murrison, Westbury

  Joan Marie Ryan, Enfield North

  Ian Richard Liddell-Grainger, Bridgwater

  Charles Hendry, Wealden

  Louise Ellman, Liverpool, Riverside

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  Thomas Hilton Dawson, Lancaster and Wyre

  Margaret Moran, Luton South

  Iain Luke, Dundee East

  Timothy William George Collins, Westmorland and Lonsdale

  George Gideon Oliver Osborne, Tatton

  Martin Philip Caton, Gower

  David Stanley Borrow, South Ribble

  Tom Levitt, High Peak

  Tom Harris, Glasgow Cathcart

  Michael Cathel Fallon, Sevenoaks

  Shaun Anthony Woodward, St Helens South

  Ian Colin Lucas, Wrexham

  Jim Knight, South Dorset

  John Martin McDonnell, Hayes and Harlington

  Clive Stanley Efford, Eltham

  David Alan Heyes, Ashton under Lyne

  David Anthony Laws, Yeovil

  John David Pugh, Southport

  Peter John Duncan, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale

  Tony McWalter, Hemel Hempstead

  Julian Murray Lewis, New Forest East

  Anne Begg, Aberdeen South

  Annette Lesley Brooke, Mid Dorset and North Poole

  Patsy Calton, Cheadle

  Sylvia Hermon, North Down

  Mark Gerard Hoban, Fareham

  Robert John Walter, North Dorset

  Mark Richard Tami, Alyn and Deeside

  Paul Gordon Clark, Gillingham

  Philip Ian Hope, Corby

  Claire Ward, Watford

  Dominic Charles Robert Grieve, Beaconsfield

  Michael John Gapes, Ilford South

  Norman Peter Lamb, North Norfolk

  Stephen Hesford, Wirral West

  Nigel Griffiths, Edinburgh South

  Right honourable Alan Thomas Howarth, Newport East

  Simon Thomas, Ceredigion

  Hywel Williams, Caernarfon

  Adam Price, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr

  Gisela Gschaider Stuart, Birmingham, Edgbaston

  Michael David Wills, North Swindon

  Steven John Webb, Northavon

  Alistair James Hendrie Burt, North East Bedfordshire

  Damian Howard Green, Ashford

  Keith Robert Simpson, Mid Norfolk

  Julie Morgan, Cardiff North

  Albert Owen, Ynys Môn

  Angus Robertson, Moray

  Right honourable John Selwyn Gummer, Suffolk Coastal

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  Keith Vaz, Leicester East

  Robert Howard Marris, Wolverhampton South West

  Jane Patricia Griffiths, Reading East

  Philip Andrew Sawford, Kettering

  Eric Anthony Martlew, Carlisle

  Michael Jabez Foster, Hastings and Rye

  Kim Scott Howells, Pontypridd

  Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns, West Chelmsford

  David Roy Lidington, Aylesbury

  Russell Leslie Brown, Dumfries

  Ann Coffey, Stockport

  Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, Islington North

  Martin John Salter, Reading West

  Andrew Francis Bennett, Denton and Reddish

  Michael Louis David Fabricant, Lichfield

  Robert Edward Russell, Colchester

  David Wilson Boyd Burnside, South Antrim

  Andrew Robert Frederick Hunter, Basingstoke

  Siobhain Ann McDonagh, Mitcham and Morden

  John David Cairns, Greenock and Inverclyde

  Christopher Shaun Ruane, Vale of Clwyd

  Adrian Mark Sanders, Torbay

  Patrick Allen McLoughlin, West Derbyshire

  Ian Graham Davidson, Glasgow Pollok

  Geraint Richard Davies, Croydon Central

  Daphne Barbara Follett, Stevenage

  Malcolm Hunt Wicks, Croydon North

  Roger Mark Casale, Wimbledon

  Jeffrey Ennis, Barnsley East and Mexborough

  Robert Graham Marshall-Andrews, Medway

  Norman John Baker, Lewes

  Paul Robert Holmes, Chesterfield

  Richard Younger-Ross, Teignbridge

  Right honourable Stephen John Byers, North Tyneside

  Thomas Anthony Cunningham, Workington

  Liam Fox, Woodspring

  Andrew John Turner, Isle of Wight

  Peter Charles Stephen Bradley, The Wrekin

  Right honourable Nicholas Hugh Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend

  Graham William Allen, Nottingham North

  Kelvin Peter Hopkins, Luton North

  Hugh Robertson, Faversham and Mid Kent

  Anthony John Colman, Putney

  Richard Thomas Taylor, Wyre Forest

  Matthew Roger Green, Ludlow

  Julia Kate Drown, South Swindon

  Right honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, South West Surrey

  Claire Curtis-Thomas Crosby

  Geoffrey Robinson, Coventry North West

  Gordon Marsden, Blackpool South

  Marsha Singh, Bradford West

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  Sir Robert Smith, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

  Michael Kevin Moore, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

  John Patrick Burnett, Torridge and West Devon

  Mark Oaten, Winchester

  Jonathan Rowland Shaw, Chatham and Aylesford

  Caroline Alice Spelman, Meriden

  Christopher Robert Chope, Christchurch

  Right honourable Stephen James Dorrell, Charnwood

  Lembit Öpik, Montgomeryshire

  Roger Hugh Williams, Brecon and Radnorshire

  Edward Jonathon Davey, Kingston and Surbiton

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  Dennis Edward Skinner, Bolsover

  David Anthony Andrew Amess, Southend West

  Christopher John Bryant, Rhondda

  Anthony Louis Banks, West Ham

  Andrew Stunell, Hazel Grove

  Barry Sheerman, Huddersfield

  Peter Wishart, North Tayside

  ADJOURNMENT
  Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till tomorrow at twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock. —[Mr. Sutcliffe.]
  Adjourned accordingly at Five o'clock.