Sitting of 11 March 1974

Preamble
The House met at half-past Two 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:

George McArthur Lawson, esquire, Motherwell and Wishaw.

Dr. Jesse Dickson Mabon, Greenock and Port Glasgow.

Renée, Mrs. Short, Wolverhampton, North-East.

Ifor Davies, esquire, Gower.

John Robertson, esquire, Paisley.

Roland Dunstan Moyle, esquire, Lewisham, East.

Stanley Clinton Davis, esquire, Hackney, Central.

Thomas Pendry, esquire, Stalybridge and Hyde.

Trevor Herbert Harry Skeet, esquire, Bedford.

Donald James Stewart, esquire, Western Isles.

Robert Gordon Wilson, esquire, Dundee, East.

Winifred Margaret, Mrs. Ewing, Moray and Nairn.

Hamish Watt, esquire, Banff.

George Newlands Reid, esquire, Clack-mannan and East Stirlingshire.

Iain Somerled MacDonald MacCormick, esquire, Argyll.

Andrew Francis Bennett, esquire, Stockport, North.

Ian Reginald Edward Gow, esquire, Eastbourne.

Sir John Charles Rodgers, baronet, Sevenoaks.

Alexander Macpherson Fletcher, esquire, Edinburgh, North.

James Stewart Barry Henderson, esquire, East Dunbartonshire.

Kenneth Lomas, esquire, Huddersfield, West.

Joseph Percival William Mallalieu, esquire, Huddersfield, East.

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Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith, esquire, commonly called the honourable Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith, North Angus and Mearns.

David William Stennis Stuart Lane, esquire, Cambridge.

Alan James Beith, esquire, Berwick upon Tweed.

Paul Archer Tyler, esquire, Bodmin.

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, esquire, Henley.

Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys Williams, baronet, Kensington and Chelsea, Kensington.

Right honourable Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, Taunton.

Major Right honourable Sir David Lockhart-Mure Renton, KBE, TD, QC, Huntingdonshire.

Philip Welsby Holland, esquire, Carlton.

Andrew Bowden, esquire, MBE, Brighton, Kemptown.

Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, esquire, North-West Norfolk.

Toby Francis Henry Jessel, esquire, Rich-mond-upon-Thames, Twickenham.

John Giles Dunkerley Shaw, esquire, Pudsey.

Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer, baronet, West Flint.

Henry John Brewis, esquire, Galloway.

Dr. Keith Hampson, Ripon.

Geoffrey Edwin Pattie, esquire, Chertsey and Walton.

Peter Temple-Morris, esquire, Leominster.

David Laidlaw Knox, esquire, Leek.

John Alexander Corrie, esquire, Bute and North Ayrshire.

Dafydd Elis Thomas, esquire, Merioneth.

Dafydd Wigley, esquire, Caernarvon.

James Theodore Lester, esquire, Beeston.

Frank Oswald Hooley, esquire, Sheffield, Heeley.

Anthony Henry Fanshawe Royle, esquire, Richmond-upon-Thames, Richmond.

Joan Lestor, Eton and Slough.

Edwin Wainwright, esquire, BEM, Dearne Valley.

Peter Charles Snape, esquire, West Bromwich, East.

Right honourable Reginald Maudling, Barnet, Chipping Barnet.

Charles Richard Morris, esquire, Manchester, Openshaw.

Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, esquire, commonly called the honourable Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, Glasgow, Hillhead.

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Angus Edmund Upton Maude, esquire, TD, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Stephen Sherlock Ross, esquire, Isle of Wight.

Sir Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, QC, Merton, Wimbledon.

John Dean Spence, esquire, Thirsk and Malton.

Norman Beresford Tebbit, esquire, Waltham Forest, Chingford.

Walter Ernest Padley, esquire, Ogmore.

William David Mudd, esquire, Falmouth and Camborne.

Hector Seymour Peter Monro, esquire, Dumfries.

Leslie John Huckfield, esquire, Nuneaton.

Ronald Henry Atkins, esquire, Preston, North.

Spencer Le Marchant, esquire, High Peak.

John Bruce-Gardyne, esquire, South Angus.

Geoffrey Johnson Smith, esquire, East Grinstead.

Arthur Charles Latham, esquire, City of Westminster, Paddington.

Thomas William Urwin, esquire, Houghton-le-Spring.

Colonel Sir John Edward Gilmour, baronet, DSO, TD, East Fife.

Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, esquire, Woking.

2.58 p.m.
Mr. Speaker: I suspend the sitting till half-past Three.
3.30 p.m.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oaths or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable Christopher John Chataway, Chichester.

Robert John Maxwell-Hyslop, esquire, Tiverton.

Thomas Russell Fairgrieve, esquire, West Aberdeenshire.

Right honourable John Thomson Stonehouse, Walsall, North.

Right honourable Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas, KCMG, Kettering.

John Jakob Mendelson, esquire, Penistone.

Kenneth Robin Warren, esquire, Hastings.

Mr. Speaker: It is my intention to suspend tomorrow's morning sitting until 2.15 p.m. This will enable any right hon. or hon. Members who have not yet been sworn in to do so before the debate begins on the Queen's Speech. I hope that they will take, the, opportunity because I understand that 50 to 60 right hon. and hon. Members have yet to be sworn in.

ADJOURNMENT
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Harper.]
Adjourned accordingly at twenty-five minutes to Four 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 Ripon.

LORD ELWYN-JONES
THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (LORD SHEPHERD): My Lords, I have to acquaint the House that Her Majesty has been pleased to create the Right Honourable Sir Frederick Elwyn-Jones, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, a Peer of this Realm, by the title of Baron Elwyn-Jones, of Llanelli in the County of Carmarthen and of Newham in Greater London.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, having retired to robe, was introduced as a Baron and
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as Lord Chancellor between the Lord Shepherd and the Lord Gardiner.
House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.
The Lord Nunburnholme—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
Certain Lords—Affirmed.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent,—Singly took the Oath.
The Earl of Snowdon—Took the Oath.
Several Lords—Took the Oath.
House adjourned at four o'clock.