Sitting of 7 March 1974

Preamble
The House being met at half-past Two o'clock, and Mr. SPEAKER-ELECT having taken the Chair;
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners;
The House went; and, having returned—

ELECTION OF SPEAKER
Mr. Speaker: I have to report to the House that, in the House of Peers, Her Majesty, by Her Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve of the choice made of myself for the Office of Speaker, and that I have, in your name and on your behalf, made claim by humble petition to Her Majesty to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges—particularly to the freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest and freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction may be placed on all your proceedings. All these Her Majesty, by Her Commissioners, has been pleased to confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by herself or by any of Her Royal Predecessors.
My first duty to the House is to repeat my very respectful acknowledgements and my grateful thanks for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the Chair.

MEMBERS SWORN
Mr. Speaker: I 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, first doing so myself.
Thereupon Mr. SPEAKER first alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.
Mr. Speaker: It has proved convenient, to save confusion and to save hon. Members having to wait about in the Chamber, for the Chair to announce the order in
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which it proposes to call right hon. and hon. Members to take the Oath.
I propose to call first the Government Front Bench; then the Opposition Front Bench; then all Privy Councillors and former Ministers not included in those two groups, wherever they may be seated. Thereafter, I go bench by bench—first the second bench below the Gangway on my right, and then the similar bench on my left, then the back bench below the Gangway on my right; then the similar bench on my left.
A diagram of how I propose to proceed has just been placed on the notice board in the Whips' offices and in the "No" Lobby. The seats are there given numbers, and the numbers will be shown on the annunciators so that hon. Members may not have to sit about for an unnecessarily long time. I know that I can count upon the honour of Members to observe the order which I have announced.
To help hon. Members who may have to wait for a certain amount of time, I should say that I shall definitely be in the Chair at six o'clock this evening. I hope that as many as possible will be sworn in today. Tomorrow we continue, and I shall return to the Chair for the last time tomorrow at 12.30 p.m.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable James Harold Wilson, OBE, Huyton.

Right honourable Edward Richard George Heath, MBE, Bexley, Sidcup.

Right honourable Edward Watson Short, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Central.

Right honourable Leonard James Callaghan, Cardiff, South-East.

Right honourable Denis Winston Healey, MBE, Leeds, East.

Right honourable Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, KT, Kinross and West Perthshire.

Right honourable Charles Anthony Raven Crosland, Grimsby.

Right honourable Barbara Anne, Mrs. Castle, Blackburn.

Shirley Vivien Teresa Brittain, Mrs. Williams, Hertford and Stevenage.

Right honourable Peter David Shore, Tower Hamlets, Stepney and Poplar.

Michael Mackintosh Foot, esquire, Ebbw Vale.

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Right honourable Thomas Frederick Peart, Workington.

Right honourable Roy Mason, Barnsley.

Right honourable Robert Joseph Mellish, Southwark, Bermondsey.

Right honourable Roy Harris Jenkins, Birmingham, Stechford.

Eric Graham Varley, esquire, Chesterfield.

Right honourable William Ross, MBE, Kilmarnock.

Brian Kevin O'Malley, esquire, Rotherham.

Joseph Harper, esquire, Pontefract and Castleford.

Donald Richard Coleman, esquire, Neath.

John Dennis Concannon, esquire, Mansfield.

Ernest Armstrong, esquire, North-West Durham.

Dennis Edward Skinner, esquire, Bolsover.

John Donkin Dormand, esquire, Easing-ton.

Thomas Michael Cox, esquire, Wands-worth, Tooting.

Alfred Morris, esquire, Manchester, Wythenshawe.

John William Gilbert, esquire, Dudley, East.

Joel Barnett, esquire, Heywood and Royton.

Robert Edward Sheldon, esquire, Ashton-under-Lyne.

Reginald Yarnitz Freeson, esquire, Brent, East.

Right honourable John Ernest Silkin, Lewisham, Deptford.

Right honourable Frederick William Mulley, Sheffield, Park.

Gordon James Oakes, esquire, Widnes.

Samuel Charles Silkin, esquire, QC, commonly called the honourable Samuel Charles Silkin, Southwark, Dulwich.

John Golding, esquire, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Norman Findlay Buchan, esquire, West Renfrewshire.

Dr. Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill, commonly called the honourable Shirley Catherine Wynne Summerskill, Halifax.

Michael Francis Lovell Cocks, esquire, Bristol, South.

Eric Samuel Heller, esquire, Liverpool, Walton.

Gregor Mackenzie, esquire, Rutherglen. Walter Harrison, esquire, Wakefield. John Douglas Grant, esquire, Islington, Central.

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Denis Herbert Howell, esquire, Birmingham, Small Heath.

Right honourable Anthony Perrinot Lysberg Barber, TD, Altrincham and Sale.

Right honourable William Stephen Whitelaw, CH, MC, Penrith and the Border.

Right honourable James Michael Leathes Prior, Lowestoft.

Right honourable Francis Leslie Pym, MC, Cambridgeshire.

Right honourable Peter Edward Walker, MBE, Worcester.

Right honourable Maurice Victor Macmillan, Farnham.

Right honourable Peter John Mitchell Thomas, QC, Barnet, Hendon, South.

Rt. hon. Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Chesham and Amersham.

Right honourable Sir Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson, QC, Epsom and Ewell.

Right honourable Richard Frederick Wood, Bridlington.

Right honourable Sir John Benedict Eden, baronet, Bournemouth, West.

Right honourable John Emerson Harding Davies, MBE, Knutsford.

Right honourable Humphrey Edward Atkins, Spelthorne.

Bruce Bernard Weatherill, esquire, Croydon, North-East.

Terence Langley Higgins, esquire, Worthing.

Mark Carlisle, esquire, QC, Runcorn.

Norman Anthony Francis St. JohnStevas, esquire, Chelmsford.

David Arthur Russell Howell, esquire, Guildford.

Walter Clegg, esquire, North Fylde.

Thomas Gray Boardman, esquire, MC, TD, Leicester, South.

Right honourable James Anthony Stodart, Edinburgh, West.

Right honourable Leonard Robert Carr, Sutton, Carshalton.

Right honourable Sir Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, QC, East Surrey.

Arthur Paul Dean, esquire, North Somerset.

Right honourable Rodney Graham Page, MBE, Crosby.

Peggy Edith, Mrs. Fenner, Rochester and Chatham.

John Anthony Grant, esquire, Harrow, Central.

Right honourable John Wynne William Peyton, Yeovil.

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Hugh McCartney, esquire, Central Dunbartonshire.

James Dempsey, esquire, Coatbridge and Airdrie.

Right honourable Sir Derek Colclough Walker-Smith, baronet, TD, QC, East Hertfordshire.

Right honourable Joseph Grimond, TD, Orkney and Zetland.

Right honourable John Jeremy Thorpe, North Devon.

Timothy Peter Geoffrey Kitson, esquire, Richmond, Yorks.

Right honourable George Russell Strauss, Lambeth, Vauxhall.

Ernest Alan Fitch, esquire, Wigan.

Right honourable George Thomas, Cardiff, West.

Peter Emery, esquire, Honiton.

Right honourable Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, CH, Hammersmith, Fulham.

Rt. Hon. Arthur George Bottomley, OBE, Teesside, Middlesbrough.

Right honourable Cledwyn Hughes, Anglesey.

Right honourable Frederick Thomas Willey, Sunderland, North.

Peter McLay Mills, esquire, West Devon. Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay, esquire, Kirkcaldy.

Right honourable Ernest Fernyhough, Jarrow.

Daniel Jones, esquire, BEM, Burnley.

Neville Devonshire Sandelson, esquire, Hillingdon, Hayes and Harlington.

Albert Roberts, esquire, Normanton.

Right honourable Sir Arthur James Irvine, QC, Liverpool, Edge Hill.

Ioan Lyonel Evans, esquire, Aberdare.

Michael James Hugh Alison, esquire, Barkston Ash.

David Lambie, esquire, Central Ayrshire. Edward Loyden, esquire, Liverpool, Garston.

Stanley George Thorne, esquire, Preston, South.

Right honourable Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Wandsworth, Battersea, North.

Robert Kilroy-Silk, esquire, Ormskirk. Cecil Edward Parkinson, esquire, South Hertfordshire.

Sydney Tierney, esquire, Birmingham, Yardley.

Robert Crofton Brown, esquire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West.

Sir Myer Galpern, Glasgow, Shettleston. Kenneth Wilfred Baker, esquire, City of Westminster, St. Marylebone.

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Right honourable Harold Julian Amery, Brighton, Pavilion.

Arthur Blenkinsop, esquire, South Shields.

Edward Macmillan Taylor, esquire, Glasgow, Cathcart.

Alan David Walder, esquire, ERD, Clitheroe.

Right honourable Hugh Charles Patrick Joseph Fraser, MBE, Stafford and Stone.

Right honourable Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, QC, Hexham.

Hugh Alexis Louis Rossi, esquire, Haringey, Hornsey.

Adam Courtauld Butler, esquire, commonly called the honourable Adam Courtauld Butler, Bosworth.

Alfred George Fletcher Hall-Davis, esquire, Morecambe and Lonsdale.

Eldon Wylie Griffiths, esquire, Bury St. Edmunds.

Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, esquire, DSO, OBE, MC, TD, Abingdon.

William Charles Whitlock, esquire, Nottingham, North.

Peter Michael Kirk, esquire, Saffron Walden.

Robert William Elliott, esquire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North.

Edward Rowlands, esquire, Merthyr Tydfil.

John William Frederic Nott, esquire, St. Ives.

Paul Lancelot Hawkins, esquire, TD, South-West Norfolk.

Right honourable William Francis Deedes, MC, Ashford.

Right honourable Robert Alexander Lindsay, esquire, commonly called Lord Balniel, Welwyn and Hatfield.

Sir Arthur Douglas Dodds-Parker, Cheltenham.

Raymond Llewellyn Mawby, esquire, Totnes.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Oscar Murton, OBE, TD, Poole.

Sir Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan, DSO, MC, Howden.

Harry Neil Marten, esquire, Banbury.

Jasper More, esquire, Ludlow.

Sir Donald Kaberry, baronet, TD, Leeds, North-West.

Sir Bernard Richard Braine, Essex, South-East.

Ian MacArthur, esquire, Perth and East Perthshire.

Richard Kelley, esquire, Don Valley.

Thomas William Torney, esquire, Bradford, South.

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Michael English, esquire, Nottingham, West.

Maurice Orbach, esquire, Stockport, South.

Robert Edward Woof, esquire, Blaydon.

John Michael Hubert Lee, esquire, Birmingham, Handsworth.

George Robert Cryer, esquire, Keighley. Ian Campbell, esquire, West Dunbartonshire.

Thomas Edward Graham, esquire, Enfield Edmonton.

James White, esquire, Glasgow, Pollok.

Frank Hatton, esquire, Manchester, Moss Side.

Harry Selby, esquire, Glasgow, Govan.

John Evans, esquire, Newton.

Ronald William Brown, esquire, Hackney, South and Shoreditch.

James Mark Craigen, esquire, Glasgow, Maryhill.

Gerald Bernard Kaufman, esquire, Manchester, Ardwick.

David Wright Young, esquire, Bolton, East.

William Watson Small, esquire, Glasgow, Garscadden.

Thomas McLellan McMillan, esquire, Glasgow, Central.

Stephen Barry Jones, esquire. East Flint. David Weitzman, esquire, QC, Hackney, North and Stoke Newington.

Albert Edward Patrick Duffy, esquire, Sheffield, Attercliffe.

Joseph Kevin McNamara, esquire, Kingston-upon-Hull, Central.

John Ellis, esquire, Brigg and Scunthorpe. Francis McElhone, esquire, Glasgow, Queens Park.

Janet Evelyn Fookes, Plymouth, Drake. Captain Lawrence Percy Story Orr, South Down.

David Lance Crouch, esquire, Canterbury.

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

Michael Anthony Latham, esquire, Melton.

Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew, esquire, QC, Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Thomas Lascelles Isa Shandon Valiant Iremonger, esquire, Redbridge, Ilford, North.

Robert Michael Marshall, esquire, Arundel.

Michael Norman Shaw, esquire, Scarborough.

Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth, esquire, South-West Hertfordshire.

Frederick Frank Arthur Burden, esquire, Gillingham.

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Patrick Thomas Cormack, esquire, South-West Staffordshire.

Sir George Evelyn Sinclair, CMG, OBE, Dorking.

Ralph Bonner Pink, esquire, CBE, VRD, Portsmouth, South.

Stephen Lewis Edmonstone Hastings. esquire, MC, Mid-Bedfordshire.

Ian Stewart Lloyd, esquire, Havant and Waterloo.

John Heydon Romaine Stokes, esquire, Halesowen and Stourbridge.

Nicholas William Budgen, esquire. Wolverhampton, South-West.

Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, OBE, TD, East Renfrewshire.

Anthony George Berry, esquire, commonly called the honourable Anthony George Berry, Enfield, Southgate.

Alexander Eadie, esquire, BEM, Midlothian.

Hugh Dunbar Brown, esquire, Glasgow, Provan.

Betty Boothroyd, West Bromwich, West.

Adam Hunter, esquire, Dunfermline.

Alexander Wilson, esquire, Hamilton.

Alec Woodall, esquire, Hemsworth.

Arnold John Shaw, esquire, Redbridge, Ilford, South.

Kenneth Marks, esquire, Manchester, Gorton.

Richard Crawshaw, esquire, OBE, Liverpool, Toxteth.

Ronald King Murray, esquire, QC, Edinburgh, Leith.

Ivor Malcolm Clemitson, esquire, Luton, East.

Gwilym Edffrwd Roberts, esquire, Cannock.

James Tinn, esquire, Teesside, Redcar.

John Anderson Cunningham, esquire, Whitehaven.

Bruce Thomas George, esquire, Walsall, South.

Jeffrey William Rooker, esquire, Birmingham, Perry Barr.

George Grant, esquire, Morpeth.

Robert Adam Ross Maclennan, esquire, Caithness and Sutherland.

Geoffrey Edge, esquire, Aldridge—Brownhills.

Edward Lyons, esquire, Bradford, West.

Terence William Walker, esquire, Kings-wood.

Peter Hardy, esquire, Rother Valley.

James William Wilton Spicer, esquire, West Dorset.

Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson, esquire, New Forest.

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Ieuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts, esquire, Conway.

Nicholas Raymond Winterton, esquire, Macclesfield.

lain MacDonald Sproat, esquire, Aberdeen, South.

Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewart, esquire, Hitchin.

David Carol Macdonald Mather, esquire, MC, Esher.

Michael Fidler, esquire, Bury and Radcliffe.

Piers John Shirley Dixon, esquire, Truro.

Charles Andrew Morrison, esquire, commonly called the honourable Charles Andrew Morrison, Devizes.

Ralph Frederick Howell, esquire, North Norfolk.

Ian Grist, esquire, Cardiff, North.

Sir John Hall, OBE, TD, Wycombe.

Michael Neubert, esquire, Havering, Romford.

Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, esquire, Kingston-upon-Thames.

Ivan John Lawrence, esquire, Burton.

David Neil MacFarlane, esquire, Sutton and Cheam.

Julian Errington Ridsdale, esquire, Harwich.

Ernle David Drummond Money, esquire, Ipswich.

Arthur Stanley Newens, esquire, Harlow.

Martin Henry Flannery, esquire, Sheffield, Hillsborough.

Maxwell Francis Madden, esquire, Sowerby.

Brian Charles John Sedgemore, esquire, Luton, West.

Robert Edwards, esquire, Wolverhampton, South-East.

David Ginsburg, esquire, Dewsbury.

Harold Boardman, esquire, Leigh.

James Callaghan, esquire, Middleton and Prestwich.

Robert Bowen Cant, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, Central.

Gerald Teasdale Fowler, esquire, The Wrekin.

Alfred Bates, esquire, Bebington and Ellesmere Port.

Bernard Conlan, esquire, Gateshead, East.

Joseph Jabez Dean, esquire, Leeds, West.

Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar, esquire, Belper.

Edward Stanley Bishop, esquire, Newark. William Thomas Williams, esquire, QC, Warrington.

Jeffrey Thomas, esquire, Abertillery.

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Julius Silverman, esquire, Birmingham, Erdington.

John Francis Hodges Roper, esquire, Farnworth.

Phillip Whitehead, esquire, Derby, North.

Alastair Brian Walden, esquire, Birmingham, Ladywood.

Robert Thomas Ellis, esquire, Wrexham.

Stanley James Allen Hill, esquire, Southampton, Test.

George Arthur Gardiner, esquire, Reigate.

Robert James Adley, esquire, Christ-church and Lymington.

Richard Napier Luce, esquire, Shoreham.

Julian Michael Shersby, esquire, Hillingdon, Uxbridge.

Michael Wolfgang Laurence Morris, esquire, Northampton, South.

Albert Arthur Jones, esquire, Daventry.

John Michael Gorst, esquire, Barnet, Hendon, North.

Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, esquire, Horncastle.

John Gordon Hannam, esquire, Exeter.

Ronald William Thomas Bray, esquire, Rossendale.

Nicholas Ridley, esquire, commonly called the honourable Nicholas Ridley, Cirencester and Tewkesbury.

John Edward Michael Moore, esquire, Croydon, Central.

Peter Lewis Rost, esquire, South-East Derbyshire.

Norman Alexander Miscampbell, esquire, Blackpool, North.

John Wakeham, esquire, Maldon.

Dr. Alan Glyn, Windsor and Maidenhead.

John Ambrose Cope, esquire, South Gloucestershire.

Ivor Robert Stanbrook, esquire, Bromley, Orpington.

Jack Ashley, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, South.

John Warren Loveridge, esquire, Havering, Upminster.

William Mark Hughes, esquire, Durham. Eric Moonman, esquire, Basildon.

David Ian Marquand, esquire, Ashfield.

Ian William Wrigglesworth, esquire, Teesside, Thornaby.

James Sillars, esquire, South Ayrshire.

John Smith, esquire, North Lanarkshire Maurice Edelman, esquire, Coventry, North-West.

Paul Bernard Rose, esquire, Manchester, Blackley.

Roger Stott, esquire, Westhoughton.

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Alfred Thomas Evans, esquire, Caerphilly.

Richard Charles Mitchell, esquire, Southampton, Itchen.

John Rhodes Horam, esquire, Gateshead, West.

Robert Finlayson Cook, esquire, Edinburgh, Central.

William Hamling, esquire, Greenwich, Woolwich, West.

David John Denzil Davies, esquire, Llanelli.

Bruce Milian, esquire, Glasgow, Craigton.

Nicolas Guy Barnett, esquire, Greenwich.

Albert Edward Booth, esquire, Barrow-in-Furness.

Gwynoro Glyndwr Jones, esquire, Carmarthen.

Maureen Morfydd, Mrs. Colquhoun, Northampton, North.

Harry Ewing, esquire, Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth.

Giles Heneage Radice, esquire, Chester-le-Street.

Neil George Carmichael, esquire, Glasgow, Kelvingrove.

Stanley Orme, esquire, Salford, West.

Harry George Lamborn, esquire, Southwark, Peckham.

David John Watkins, esquire, Consett.

David Leonard Stoddart, esquire, Swindon.

Right honourable Margaret Hilda, Mrs. Thatcher, Barnet, Finchley.

Robert Michael Conal McNair-Wilson, esquire, Newbury.

Dr. Gerard Folliott Vaughan, Reading, South.

Robert Anthony Bevis Durant, esquire, Reading, North.

Douglas Richard Hurd, esquire, commonly called the honourable Douglas Richard Hurd, Mid-Oxon.

Alastair Robertson Goodlad, esquire, Northwich.

Denis Murray Walters, esquire, M.B.E., Westbury.

Sir Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, MC, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surbiton.

John Paul Stanley, esquire, Tonbridge and Malling.

Hilary Duppa Miller, esquire, Broms-grove and Redditch.

Robert Spencer Redmond, esquire, Bolton, West.

Lynda, Mrs. Chalker, Wallasey.

David Pelham James, esquire, MBE, DSC, North Dorset.

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Nigel Lawson, esquire, Blaby.

Antony Harold Newton, esquire, Braintree.

Roger Edward Sims, esquire, Bromley, Chislehurst.

Timothy Hugh Francis Raison, esquire, Aylesbury.

John Alec Biggs-Davison, esquire, Epping Forest.

Peter Winford Innes Rees, esquire, QC, Dover and Deal.

Geraint Wyn Howells, esquire, Cardigan. Raymond John Carter, esquire, Birmingham. Northfield.

Eric Petro Deakins, esquire, Waltham Forest, Walthamstow.

John Edward Tomlinson, esquire, Meriden.

Alfred James Wellbeloved, esquire, Bexley, Erith and Crayford.

Robert Hughes, esquire, Aberdeen, North.

Alan Lee Williams, esquire, Havering, Hornchurch.

John Frederick Ovenden, esquire, Gravesend.

John Laurence Garrett, esquire, Norwich, South.

Lieutenant-Colonel Marcus Lipton, CBE, Lambeth, Central.

Richard Buchanan, esquire, Glasgow. Springburn.

Peter Kingsley Archer, esquire, QC, Warley, West.

Dr. Edmund Ian Marshall, Goole.

Edward Griffiths, esquire, Sheffield, Brightside.

Lewis Carter-Jones, esquire, Eccles.

Michael Hugh Meacher, esquire, Oldham, West.

Right honourable David Hedley Ennals, Norwich, North.

George Cunningham, esquire, Islington, South and Finsbury.

John Stuart Forrester, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, North.

Gavin Steel Strang, esquire, Edinburgh, East.

Michael Joseph O'Halloran, esquire, Islington, North.

Jack Dunnett, esquire, Nottingham, East.

Dr. Maurice Soloman Miller, East Kilbride.

4.31 p.m.
Mr. Speaker: Order. I propose to suspend the Sitting. The Sitting is suspended until Five o'clock.
5.0 p.m.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable William Craig, Belfast, East.

James Henry Molyneaux, esquire, South Antrim.

James Harold McCusker, esquire, Armagh.

Sir Frederick Mackarness Bennett, Torbay.

Alan Michael Clark Hutchison, esquire, Edinburgh, South.

Sir Stephen James McAdden, CBE, Southend, East.

Clement Raphael Freud, esquire, Isle of Ely.

David Martin Scott Steel, esquire, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles.

Hugh Emlyn Hooson, esquire, QC, Montgomery.

Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, esquire, City of London and Westminster, South.

Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, esquire, commonly called Earl of Ancram, Berwick and East Lothian.

Peter Hugh Morrison, esquire, City of Chester.

Anthony Fell, esquire, Yarmouth.

Keith Monin Stainton, esquire, Sudbury and Woodbridge.

Rhodes Boyson, esquire, Brent, North. Sir William Marcus John Worsley, baronet, Kensington and Chelsea, Chelsea.

William Gibson Clark, esquire, Croydon, South.

Bryant Godman Irvine, esquire, Rye. Robert Arthur McCrindle, esquire, Brentwood and Ongar.

Hugh John Dykes, esquire, Harrow, East.

William Jeremy Masefield Shelton, esquire, Lambeth, Streatham.

John Leonard Hunt, esquire, Bromley, Ravensbourne.

Peter Muir Doig, esquire, Dundee, West.

William George Price, esquire, Rugby.

Captain Hugh James Delargy, Thurrock.

Dr. David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Plymouth, Devonport.

Tam Dalyell, esquire, West Lothian.

John Parker, esquire, CBE, Barking, Dagenham.

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, esquire, Birmingham, Sparkbrook.

Christopher Price, esquire, Lewisham, West.

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Hugh Gater Jenkins, esquire, Wandsworth, Putney.

Bryan Magee, esquire, Waltham Forest, Leyton.

Harold James Boyden, esquire, Bishop Auckland.

Russell Whiston Kerr, esquire, Hounslow, Feltham and Heston.

Raymond Fletcher, esquire, Ilkeston.

Bryan Davies, esquire, Enfield, North.

George Maclean Park, esquire, Coventry, North-East.

Colin Barry Phipps, esquire, Dudley, West.

Alexander Ward Lyon, esquire, York. Dick Taverne, esquire, QC, Lincoln.

William Michael John Grylls, esquire, North-West Surrey.

Thomas Jeremy King, esquire, Bridgwater.

Roger Nicholas Edwards, esquire, Pembroke.

David Charles Waddington, esquire, QC, Nelson and Colne.

Walter Ian Percival, esquire, QC, Southport.

Edward Lucas Gardner, esquire, QC, South Fylde.

Julian Michael Gordon Critchley, esquire, Aldershot.

William David Madel, esquire, South Bedfordshire.

John Julius Wells, esquire, Maidstone.

Robert Thomas Boscawen, esquire, MC, commonly called the honourable Robert Thomas Boscawen, Wells.

Kenneth Lewis, esquire, Rutland and Stamford.

Neville Guthrie Trotter, esquire, Tyne-mouth.

Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, esquire, Blackpool, South.

George Burnaby Drayson, esquire, Skipton.

Sally, Mrs. Oppenheim, Gloucester.

Michael Aubrey Hamilton, esquire, Salisbury.

Gordon Alexander Thomas Bagier, esquire, Sunderland, South.

William Geraint Oliver Morgan, esquire, QC, Denbigh.

Albert Percy Costain, esquire, Folkestone and Hythe.

John Roddick Russell MacGregor, esquire, OBE, South Norfolk.

Marcus Richard Kimball, esquire, Gainsborough.

William Winter Hamilton, esquire, Central Fife.

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Frank Ashcroft Judd, esquire, Portsmouth, North.

Lieutenant-Commander Sir John Anthony Langford-Holt, RN retd., Shrewsbury.

Jonathan William Patrick Aitken, esquire, Thanet, East.

5.19 p.m.
Mr. Speaker: Order. I propose to suspend the Sitting and to return later. The Sitting is suspended until Six o'clock.
6.0 p.m.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

William Radcliffe van Straubenzee, esquire, MBE, Wokingham.

Winston Spencer Churchill, esquire, Stretford.

Alfred William Wiggin, esquire, TD, Weston-super-Mare.

Major-General James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, CB, OBE, MC, Lichfield and Tamworth.

William Edward Garrett, esquire, Walls-end.

William John Biffen, esquire, Oswestry.

Peter Norman Fowler, esquire, Sutton Coldfield.

Peter John Viggers, esquire, Gosport.

Peter Maudslay Hordern, esquire, Horsham and Crawley.

Robert George Banks, esquire, Harrogate.

Michael Thomas Francis McGuire, esquire, Ince.

John Denis Fraser, esquire, Lambeth, Norwood.

David Bower Mitchell, esquire, Basing-stoke.

Arthur John Page, esquire, Harrow, West.

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Bernard John Hayhoe, esquire, Hounslow, Brentford and Isleworth.

Right honourable Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Grantham.

John Holbrook Osborn, esquire, Sheffield, Hallam.

Martin John McLaren, esquire, Bristol, North-West.

Reginald Edwin Eyre, esquire, Birmingham, Hall Green.

Audrey, Mrs. Wise, Coventry, South-West.

Harold Edward Gurden, esquire, Birmingham, Selly Oak.

Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury, esquire, commonly called the honourable Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury, Hove.

Norman Atkinson, esquire, Haringey, Tottenham.

Andrew Matthew William Faulds, esquire, Warley, East.

Alan John Williams, esquire, Swansea, West.

Frederick Petre Crowder, esquire, QC, Hillingdon. Ruislip-Northwood.

William Thomas Rodgers, esquire, Teesside, Stockton.

Jeffrey Howard Archer, esquire, Louth.

Ronald McMillan Bell, esquire, QC, Beaconsfield.

Richard Body, esquire, Holland with Boston.

ADJOURNMENT
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Tomorrow at Eleven o'clock. —[Mr. Walter Harrison.]
Adjourned accordingly at eleven minutes past Six o'clock.

Preamble
The House met at half past two of the clock: The LORD CHANCELLOR on the Woolsack.
Prayers—Read by the Lord Bishop of Portsmouth.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS (THE LORD CHANCELLOR (The Right Honourable Sir ELWYN JONES), The LORD PRIVY SEAL (THE LORD SHEPHERD), The EARL OF LISTOWEL, The EARL ST. ALDWYN and The LORD BYERS) being seated in front of the Throne, and the Commons, having been sent for, being at the Bar:
MR. SPEAKER-ELECT (The Right Honourable SELWYN LLOYD), addressing the Royal Commissioners, said: My Lords, I have to acquaint your Lordships that, in obedience to Her Majesty's Commands, Her Majesty's most faithful Commons have, in the exercise of their undoubted rights and privileges, proceeded to the election of a Speaker, and that their choice has fallen upon myself. I now present myself at your Lordships' Bar, and submit myself with all humility for Her Majesty's gracious Approbation.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR: Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, we are commanded to assure you that Her Majesty is so fully sensible of your zeal in the public service, and of your ample sufficiency to execute the arduous duties which Her faithful Commons have selected you to discharge, that Her Majesty does most readily approve and confirm you as their Speaker.
MR. SPEAKER: My Lords, I submit myself with all humility and gratitude to Her Majesty's gracious Commands. It is now my duty, in the name of and on behalf of the Commons of the United Kingdom, to lay claim, by humble petition to Her Majesty, to all their ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, especially to freedom of speech in debate,
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to freedom from arrest, and to free access to Her Majesty whenever occasion shall require, and that the most favourable construction shall be put upon all their proceedings. With regard to myself, I pray that if in the discharge of my duties I shall inadvertently fall into any error, it may be imputed to myself alone, and not to Her Majesty's most faithful Commons.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR: Mr. Speaker, we have it further in Command to inform you that Her Majesty doth most readily confirm all the rights and privileges which have ever been granted to or conferred upon the Commons by Her Majesty or any of her Royal Predecessors. With respect to yourself, Sir, though Her Majesty is sensible that you stand in no need of such assurance, Her Majesty will ever place the most favourable construction upon your words and actions.
Mr. Speaker and the Commons then retired.
House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.

PEERS AND OATH OF ALLEGIANCE
BARONESS LLEWELYN-DAVIES OF HASTOE: My Lords, may I remind your Lordships that it will be very much to your advantage if you stay on your Benches in an orderly way and not queue in too gross a manner in preparing to take the Oath. Yesterday proved how very unsuccessful it was to stand and queue for hours. I ask your Lordships to remain on your Benches and proceed in an orderly manner to take the Oath, in accordance with the note which has been circulated.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
Certain Lords—Affirmed.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
House adjourned at six o'clock.