Sitting of 28 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:

  Dr. David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Plymouth, Devonport.

  Robert Adam Ross Maclennan, esquire, Caithness and Sutherland.

  John Dennis Concannon, esquire, Mansfield.

  Right honourable Barbara Anne, Mrs. Castle, Blackburn.

  Right honourable Norman Harold Lever, Manchester, Central.

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

  Right honourable Stanley Orme, Salford WeSt. John William Gilbert, esquire, Dudley East.

  John Ellis, esquire, Brigg and Scunthorpe.

  Royston John Hughes, esquire, Newport.

  William Wilson, esquire, Coventry South East.

  Kenneth Lomas, esquire, Huddersfield West.

  Dr. Maurice Solomon Miller, East Kilbride.

  Tam Dalyell, esquire, West Lothian.

  Caerwyn Eifion Roderick, esquire, Brecon and Radnor.

  John Francis Hodgess Roper, esquire, Farnworth.

  Robert Thomas Ellis, esquire, Wrexham.

  Josephine Richardson, Barking.

  John Evans, esquire, Newton.

  Lewis Carter-Jones, esquire, Eccles.

  Walter Ernest Padley, esquire, Ogmore.

  Simon Mahon, esquire, Bootle.

  Right honourable John Emerson Harding Davies, MBE, Knutsford.

  Trevor Herbert Harry Skeet, esquire, Bedford.

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  Geoffrey Finsberg, esquire, MBE, Camden, Hampstead.

  John Howard Cordle, esquire, mouth East.

  James Hector Northey Gray, esquire, Ross and Cromarty.

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

  Robert John Maxwell-Hyslop, esquire, Tiverton.

  Philip Welsby Holland, esquire, Carlton.

  Mary Elaine, Mrs. Kellett-Bowman, Lancaster.

  Richard Scurrah Wainwright, esquire, Colne Valley.

  Albert Arthur Jones, esquire, Daventry.

  Right honourable Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Chesham and Amersham.

  Roger Nicholas Edwards, esquire, Pembroke.

  Ieuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts, esquire, Conway.

  Right honourable Reginald Maudling, Barnet, Chipping Barnet.

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

  Dr. Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett, VRD, Fareham.

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

  Anthony David Steen, esquire, Liverpool, Wavertree.

  Alan Michael Clark Hutchison, esquire, Edinburgh South.

  Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark, esquire, commonly called the honourable Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Plymouth, Sutton.

  Francis McElhone, esquire, Glasgow, Queens Park.

  Joseph Percival William Mallalieu, esquire, Huddersfield East.

  Thomas Edward Graham, esquire, Enfield, Edmonton.

  John Anderson Cunningham, esquire, Whitehaven.

  Joseph Kevin McNamara, esquire, Kingston upon Hull Central.

  Kenneth Marks, esquire, Manchester, Gorton.

  Frank Oswald Hooley, esquire, Sheffield, Heeley.

  Andrew Francis Bennett, esquire, Stockport North.

  Right honourable Roy Harris Jenkins, Birmingham, Stechford.

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  Michael Stuart Thomas, esquire, Newcastle upon Tyne East.

  Giles Heneage Radice, esquire, Chesterle-Street.

  William Mark Hughes, esquire, Durham.

  Robert Edward Woof, esquire, Blaydon.

  Sir Robert William Elliott, Newcastle upon Tyne North.

  Patrick Henry Bligh Wall, esquire, MC, VRD, Haltemprice.

  Iain Somerled MacDonald MacCormick, esquire, Argyll.

  Hamish Watt, esquire, Banff.

  Margaret Anne, Mrs. Bain, East Dunbartonshire.

  Andrew Welsh, esquire, South Angus.

  George Henry Thompson, esquire, Galloway.

  Right Honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, Bristol South East.

  Peter Lewis Rost, esquire, South-East Derbyshire.

  William Michael Hardy Spicer, esquire, South Worcestershire.

  Norman Alexander Miscampbell, esquire, QC, Blackpool North.

  Peter John Viggers, esquire, Gosport.

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

  Colin Ryley Shepherd, esquire, Hereford.

  Jonathan William Patrick Aitken, esquire, Thanet East.

  Charles Graham Irving, esquire, Cheltenham.

  Hugh McCartney, esquire, Central Dunbartonshire.

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  John Hoyle Cockcroft, esquire, Nantwich.

  David Evan Trant Luard, esquire, Oxford.

  Roland Dunstan Moyle, esquire, Lewisham East.

  James Tinn, esquire, Teesside, Redcar.

  3.0 p.m.
  Mr. Speaker: I suspend the sitting till half-past three o'clock.
  3.30 p.m.
  The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

  Winston Spencer Churchill, esquire, Stretford.

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

  Sir Edward Joseph Brown, MBE, Bath.

  Clement Raphael Freud, esquire, Isle of Ely.

  Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, esquire, Woking.

  Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, esquire, Kingston upon Thames.

  MEMBERS SWORN

    ADJOURNMENT
    Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till tomorrow at twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock.—[Mr. James A. Dunn.]
    Adjourned accordingly at twenty-six minutes to Four o'clock.