Sitting of 8 March 1974

Preamble
The House met at Eleven o'clock
PRAYERS
[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]

MEMBERS SWORN
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

James Hamilton, esquire, Bothwell.

Right honourable Edmund Emanuel Dell, Birkenhead.

John Desmond Cronin, esquire, Lough-borough.

Right honourable Sydney Irving, Dart-ford.

James Johnson, esquire, Kingston-upon-Hull, West.

George Rodgers, esquire, Chorley.

Ian Mikardo, esquire, Tower Hamlets, Bethnal Green and Bow.

Josephine Richardson, Barking.

William John Molloy, esquire, Ealing, North.

Sydney James Bidwell, esquire, Ealing, Southall.

Right honourable Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Redbridge, Wanstead and Woodford.

Philip Antony Fyson Buck, esquire, Colchester.

Charles Fletcher Fletcher-Cooke, esquire, QC, Darwen.

John Howard Cordle, esquire, Bourne-mouth, East.

John Arnold Farr, esquire, Harborough.

Tom Normanton, esquire, TD, Cheadle.

David Ernest Campbell Price, esquire, Eastleigh.

Leon Brittan, esquire, Cleveland and Whitby.

Cyril David Townsend, esquire, Bexley, Bexleyheath.

Right honourable Sir Keith Sinjohn Joseph, baronet, Leeds, North-East.

Greville Ewan Janner, esquire, QC, commonly called the honourable Greville Ewan Janner, Leicester, West.

John Wentworth Pardoe, esquire, North Cornwall.

Right honourable Judith Constance Mary, Mrs. Hart, Lanark.

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Rear-Admiral Morgan Charles Morgan Giles, DSO, OBE, GM, Winchester.

William Wilson, esquire, Coventry, South-East.

Leslie Spriggs, esquire, St. Helens.

Neil Gordon Kinnock, esquire, Bedwellty.

Frederick John Silvester, esquire, Manchester, Withington.

Michael Hardy Spicer, esquire, South Worcestershire.

Gwyneth Patricia, Mrs. Dunwoody, commonly called the honourable Mrs. Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody, Crewe.

11.17 a.m.
Mr. Speaker: I suspend the sitting till half-past Twelve.
12.30 p.m.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Thomas Henry Swain, esquire, North-East Derbyshire.

Walter Hamlet Johnson, Derby, South.

James Sidney Rawdon Scott-Hopkins, esquire, West Derbyshire.

Harold Walker, esquire, Doncaster.

Arthur Davidson, esquire, Accrington.

Joyce Shore, Mrs. Butler, Haringey, Wood Green.

Dr. Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett, VRD, Fareham.

Albert William Stallard, esquire, Camden, St. Pancras, North.

Daniel Edmund Awdry, esquire, TD, Chippenham.

Anthony David Steen, esquire, Liverpool, Wavertree.

John Rankin Rathbone, esquire, Lewes.

Ronald Timothy Renton, esquire, Mid-Sussex.

Geoffrey Finsberg, esquire, MBE, Camden, Hampstead.

William Richard Benyon, esquire, Buckingham.

Lieutenant-Colonel James Harry Allason, OBE, Hemel Hempstead.

Roger Denis Moate, esquire, Faversham.

Kenneth Harry Clarke, esquire, Rushcliffe.

Thomas George Bradley, esquire, Leicester, East.

Peter Derek Fry, esquire, Welling-borough.

Edward Leadbitter, esquire, Hartlepool.

Robert George Taylor, esquire, Croydon, North-West.

Dudley Gordon Smith, esquire, Warwick and Leamington.

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Right honourable Reginald Ernest Prentice, Newham, North-East.

Christopher Paget Mayhew, esquire, Greenwich, Woolwich, East.

Frank Tomney, esquire, Hammersmith, North.

Laurence Anstice Pavitt, esquire, Brent, South.

John Hoyle Cockcroft, esquire, Nantwich.

Bruce Leslie Home Douglas-Mann, esquire, Merton, Mitcham and Morden.

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John Stradling Thomas, esquire, Monmouth.

ADJOURNMENT
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Walter Harrison.]
Adjourned accordingly at nineteen minutes to One o'clock.