Sitting of 24 October 1974

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

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

  Right honourable Merlyn Rees, Leeds, South.

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

  Right honourable Frederick William Mulley, Sheffield, Park.

  Charles Richard Morris, esquire, Manchester, Openshaw.

  Bruce Millan, esquire, Glasgow, Craigton.

  Stephen Barry Jones, esquire, East Flint.

  Alexander Ward Lyon, esquire, York.

  Ernest Armstrong, esquire, North West Durham.

  Alan John Williams, esquire, Swansea, West.

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

  Right honourable Ernest Fernyhough, Jarrow.

  Sir Myer Galpern, Glasgow, Shettleston.

  Edward Loyden, esquire, Liverpool, Garston.

  John Parker, esquire, CBE, Barking, Dagenham.

  David Leonard Stoddart, esquire, Swindon.

  Ronald Howard Lewis, esquire, Carlisle.

  Michael Thomas Francis McGuire, esquire, Ince.

  Ronald William Brown, esquire, Hackney South and Shoreditch.

  John Robertson, esquire, Paisley.

  Thomas Litterick, esquire, Birmingham, Selly Oak.

  Maurice Edelman, esquire, Coventry, North-West.

  Andrew Matthew William Faulds, esquire, Warley East.

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  Thomas George Bradley, esquire, Leicester East.

  James Sillars, esquire, South Ayrshire.

  David John Denzil Davies, esquire, Llanelli.

  Brian Charles John Sedgemore, esquire, Luton, West.

  Maureen Morfydd, Mrs. Colquhoun, Northampton, North.

  Harold Boardman, esquire, Leigh.

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

  Julian Errington Ridsdale, esquire, Harwich.

  Edward Macmillan Taylor, esquire, Glasgow, Cathcart.

  Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, esquire, North West Norfolk.

  Richard Body, esquire, Holland with Boston.

  Kenneth Robin Warren, esquire, Hastings.

  Peter Temple-Morris, esquire, Leominster.

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

  Mark Carlisle, esquire, QC, Runcorn.

  Frederick John Silvester, esquire, Manchester, Withington.

  Dr. Keith Hampson, Ripon.

  Alexander Macpherson Fletcher, esquire, Edinburgh North.

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

  Sally, Mrs. Oppenheim, Gloucester.

  Hilary Duppa Miller, esquire, Bromsgrove and Redditch.

  Robert Anthony Bevis Durant, esquire, Reading North.

  William David Mudd, esquire, Falmouth and Camborne.

  Peter Derek Fry, esquire, Wellingborough.

  Nicholas William Budgen, esquire, Wolverhampton South West.

  James Theodore Lester, esquire, Beeston.

  Hector Seymour Peter Monro, esquire, Dumfries.

  Betty Boothroyd, West Bromwich West.

  Nicolas Guy Barnett, esquire, Greenwich.

  Bryan Davies, esquire, Enfield North.

  John Rhodes Horam, esquire, Gateshead West.

  John Golding, esquire, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

  Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewart, esquire, Hitchin.

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

  Peter McLay Mills, esquire, West Devon.

  David Lance Crouch, esquire, Canterbury.

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

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

  David Ernest Campbell Price, esquire, Eastleigh.

  Ronald Timothy Renton, esquire, Mid-Sussex.

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

  David Ian Marquand, esquire, Ashfield.

  2.55 p.m.
  Mr. Speaker: I suspend the sitting till four o'clock.
  4.0 p.m.
  The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

  Right honourable Edmund Emanuel Dell, Birkenhead.

  Right honourable John Enoch Powell, MBE, South Down.

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

  Edward Lucas Gardner, esquire, QC, South Fylde.

  David William Stennis Stuart Lane, esquire, Cambridge.

  Daniel Edmund Awdry, esquire, TD, Chippenham.

  Rhodes Boyson, esquire, Brent North.

  Lena May, Mrs. Jeger, Camden, Holborn and St. Pancras South.

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

  Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, North Antrim.

  Anthony Fell, esquire, Yarmouth.

  Philip Antony Fyson Buck, esquire, QC, Colchester.

  Jack Dunnett, esquire, Nottingham East Maurice Orbach, esquire, Stockport South.

  William Hamling, esquire, Greenwich, Woolwich West.

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

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  William Gibson Clark, esquire, Croydon South.

  Robert George Taylor, esquire, Croydon North West.

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

  Timothy Hugh Francis Raison, esquire Aylesbury.

  Nigel Lawson, esquire, Blaby.

  John Julius Wells, esquire, Maidstone.

  William Thomas Rodgers, esquire, Tees side, Stockton.

  Frank Tomney, esquire, Hammersmith North.

  Norman Atkinson, esquire, Haringey, Tottenham.

  Joseph William Ashton, esquire, Basset-law.

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

  4.10 p.m.
  Mr. Speaker: I suspend the sitting till five o'clock.
  5.0 p.m.
  The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

  Renée, Mrs. Short, Wolverhampton North East.

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

  Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth, esquire, South West Hertfordshire.

  Right honourable Samuel Charles Silkin, QC, Southwark, Dulwich.

  Iain MacDonald Sproat, esquire, Aberdeen, South.

  Dudley Gordon Smith, esquire, Warwick and Leamington.

  John Leslie Prescott, esquire, Kingston upon Hull East.

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

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

  Thomas Jeremy King, esquire, Bridgwater.

  5.7 p.m.
  Mr. Speaker: I suspend the sitting till six o'clock.
  6.0 p.m.
  The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

  Robert Michael Conal McNair-Wilson, esquire, Newbury.

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

  MEMBERS SWORN

    ADJOURNMENT
    Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Monday next at half-past Two o'clock.—[Mr. Walter Harrison.]
    Adjourned accordingly at four minutes past Six o'clock.

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

LORD HARVINGTON
The Right Honourable Sir Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, Knight, having been created Baron Harvington, of Nantwich in Cheshire, for life—Was, in his robes, introduced between the Lord Mowbray and Stourton and the Lord Kilmany.
The Duke of Hamilton—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
Several Lords—Took the Oath or affirmed.
House adjourned at half past three.