Sitting of 7 August 1945

Preamble
The House met at twelve of the clock, The LORD CHANCELLOR on the Woolsack.

Prayers.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had received (by post) from the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, Minutes of the meeting held on the 6th of July last of the Peers of Scotland for the election of their representatives to sit and vote in the ensuing Parliament of the United Kingdom; and also, Return by the Principal Clerk of Session in Scotland concerning titles of Peerages called at the said meeting, in right of which respectively no vote had been received and counted for fifty-years last past as at the date of the said meeting.
Ordered that the said Minutes of Election, etc., be printed.

LORD HACKING.
The Right Honourable Sir Douglas Hewitt Hacking, Baronet, O.B.E., having been made Baron Hacking of Chorley in the County Palatine of Lancaster—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.

LORD CHETWODE.
Field-Marshal Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, Baronet, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., D.S.O., having been created Baron Chetwode of Chetwode in the County of Buckingham —Was (in the usual manner) introduced.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
House adjourned at a quarter before one o'clock.