Sitting of 28 April 1992

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

Election of Speaker
Madam 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 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 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 upon 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 report my respectful acknowledgments and my grateful thanks for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the Chair.

Members Sworn
Madam 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, but first I must do so myself.
Thereupon MADAM SPEAKER first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.
Madam Speaker: It may be for the convenience of the House if I indicate my intentions with regard to the taking of the Oath by right hon. and hon. Members. I propose to call, first, the Father of the House; then 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 shall call 20 hon. Members from each side.
I intend to continue in the Chair until about half past 4. Then I shall suspend the sitting until half past 5. I shall return, of course, at half past 5, and again at 6 for the last time. I hope that this announcement of these arrangements will be of some assistance to hon. Members if they have something which they might wish to do in the meantime. A similar procedure will apply tomorrow and on Thursday. The House will again sit at half past 2 o'clock, and I have it in mind to finish not later than half past 5 tomorrow and half past 4 on Thursday. I understand that it will also be convenient to meet again for swearing in on Tuesday next, when I shall be in the Chair from 2.30 onwards.
I hope that that announcement enables all hon. Members to make their arrangements accordingly.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:

Right honourable Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE, Old Bexley and Sidcup.

Right honourable John Major, Huntingdon.

Right honourable Douglas Richard Hurd, CBE, Witney.

Right honourable Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Henley.

Right honourable Antony Harold Newton, OBE, Braintree.

Right honourable Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, QC, Edinburgh, Pentlands.

Right honourable Kenneth Harry Clarke, QC, Rushcliffe.

Right honourable Gillian Patricia, Mrs. Shephard, South West Norfolk.

Right honourable Peter Bruce Lilley, St. Albans.

Right honourable Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo, Enfield, Southgate.

Right honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell, Mrs. Bottomley, South West Surrey.

Right honourable Ian Bruce Lang, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale.

Right honourable William Arthur Waldegrave, Bristol, West.

Right honourable Sir Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew, QC, Tunbridge Wells.

Right honourable Richard Andrew Ryder, OBE, Mid Norfolk.

John Anderson Cunningham, esquire, Copeland.

Derek Foster, esquire, Bishop Auckland.

Right honourable Gerald Bernard Kaufman, Manchester, Gorton.

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Right honourable John Smith, QC, Monklands, East.

Robert Finlayson Cook, esquire, Livingston.

David George Clark, esquire, South Shields.

Donald Campbell Dewar, esquire, Glasgow, Garscadden.

Mr. Joe Ashton: On a point of order, Madam Speaker. This is developing into something like a rugby scrum. Could you point out to hon. Members that you said that you would call 20 Members from each side of the House, one after another? That would prevent—
Madam Speaker: Order. Perhaps some hon. Members were not in the Chamber when I made my announcement. I said that, after the Father of the House, I would call the Government Front Bench, the Opposition Front Bench, Privy Councillors from both sides of the House and former Ministers. I shall then call Back Benchers from both sides of the House.
I hope that there will be no rush. I have given ample time for the taking of the Oath, so let us proceed in an orderly manner.

Josephine Richardson, Barking.

Ann Clwyd, Cynon Valley.

John Whitaker Straw, esquire, Blackburn.

Frand Gordon Dobson, esquire, Holborn and St. Pancras.

Right honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, Chesterfield.

Stephen Barry Jones, esquire, Alyn and Deeside.

Margaret Mary, Mrs Beckett, Derby South.

Joseph Kevin McNamara, esquire, Kingston upon Hull North.

Bryan Charles Gould, esquire, Dagenham.

Right honourable John Morris, Q.C., Aberavon.

Right honourable Robert Edward Sheldon, Ashton under Lyne.

Right honourable Alan John Williams, Swansea West.

Madam Speaker: It would be enormously helpful if the Whips, who know the procedure today, would help with the crowd.

Joan Lestor, Eccles.

Right honourable Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Yeovil.

Sir Hector Seymour Peter Monro, AE, Dumfries.

Robert James Atkins, esquire, South Ribble.

Peter Robert Cable Lloyd, esquire, Fareham.

Right honourable Douglas Martin Hogg, QC, Grantham.

Kenneth Melville Carlisle, esquire, Lincoln.

Jeremy James Hanley, esquire, Richmond and Barnes.

Brian Stanley Mawhinney, esquire, Peterborough.

Mark Alexander Lennox-Boyd, esquire, commonly called the honourable Mark Alexander Lennox-Boyd, Morecambe and Lunesdale.

Simon Robert Key, esquire, Salisbury.

Gwilym Haydn Jones, esquire, Cardiff, North.

Right honourable Archibald Gavin Hamilton, Epsom and Ewell.

John Michael Jack, esquire, Fylde.

Cyril Irvine Patnick, esquire, Sheffield, Hallam.

Timothy John Robert Kirkhope, esquire, Leeds, North-East.

Right honourable Terence Langley Higgins, Worthing.

David Michael Davis, esquire, Boothferry.

Right honourable Sir Rhodes Boyson, Brent, North.

Right honourable Michael James Hugh Alison, Selby.

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Christopher John Fred Gill, esquire, RD, Ludlow.

Sir Derek Harold Spencer, QC, Brighton, Pavilion.

Right honourable Dame Angela Claire Rosemary Rumbold, DBE, Mitcham and Morden.

Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens, esquire, Littleborough and Saddleworth.

Robert Hughes, esquire, Aberdeen, North.

Joseph William Ashton, esquire, Bassetlaw.

Right honourable Alfred Morris, Manchester, Wythenshawe.

Edward Rowlands, esquire, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney.

Thomas Pendry, esquire, Stalybridge and Hyde.

Margaret Anne, Mrs Ewing, Moray.

Right honourable James Henry Molyneaux, Lagan Valley.

Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, North Antrim.

Gavin Steel Strang, esquire, Edinburgh, East.

Right honourable Stanley Orme, Salford, East.

John Denis Fraser, esquire, Norwood.

Terence Henry Rooney, esquire, Bradford, North.

Ian Graham Davidson, esquire, Glasgow, Govan.

James Dolan Cunningham, esquire, Coventry, South East.

John McFall, esquire, Dumbarton.

Marion Audrey, Mrs. Roe, Broxbourne.

Dame Mary Elaine Kellett-Bowman, DBE, Lancaster.

Dame Peggy Edith Fenner, DBE, Medway.

Maria, Mrs. Fyfe, Glasgow, Maryhill.

Sir Peter Frank Hannibal Emery, Honiton.

Dame Joan Christabel Jill Knight, DBE, Birmingham, Edgbaston.

Jack Heywood Aspinwall, esquire, Wansdyke.

Sir Trevor Herbert Harry Skeet, North Bedfordshire.

Gregory Knight, esquire, Derby, North.

Andrew James MacKay, esquire, East Berkshire.

Michael Bruce Forsyth, esquire, Stirling.

James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, esquire, commonly called Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, Edinburgh, West.

Timothy John Rogerson Wood, esquire, Stevenage.

Julian Michael Shersby, esquire, Uxbridge.

Eric Forth, esquire, Mid Worcestershire.

Patrick Allen McLoughlin, esquire, West Derbyshire.

David Philip Heathcoat-Amory, esquire, Wells.

Richard Anthony Nelson, esquire, Chichester.

Harry Greenway, esquire, Ealing, North.

Jane Ann, Mrs Winterton, Congleton.

Peter David Robinson, esquire, Belfast, East.

Antony Brian Baldry, esquire, Banbury.

Thomas Clarke, esquire, CBE, Monklands, West.

Edward Loyden, esquire, Liverpool, Garston.

Alice, Mrs Mahon, Halifax.

Alun Edward Michael, esquire, Cardiff South and Penarth.

Peter Gerald Hain, esquire, Neath.

George Foulkes, esquire, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley.

James Francis Dunnachie, esquire, Glasgow, Pollok.

Roland Boyes, esquire, Houghton and Washington.

Paul Peter Murphy, esquire, Torfaen.

Walter Menzies Campbell, esquire, CBE, QC, Fife, North East.

John David Home Robertson, esquire, East Lothian.

William O'Brien, esquire, Normanton.

Brian David Henderson Wilson, esquire, Cunninghame, North.

Winston James Griffiths, esquire, Bridgend.

Peter Leslie Pike, esquire, Burnley.

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Llewellyn Thomas Smith, esquire, Blaenau Gwent.

Jane Elizabeth, Mrs Kennedy, Liverpool, Broadgreen.

Rachel Anne Squire, Dunfermline, West.

Ernest Ross, esquire, Dundee, West.

Michael Walton Bates, esquire, Langbaurgh.

Keith John Charles Bradley, esquire, Manchester, Withington.

Elliot Anthony Morley, esquire, Glanford and Scunthorpe.

Stuart Jeffrey Randall, esquire, Kingston upon Hull, West.

Robert Nelson Wareing, esquire, Liverpool, West Derby.

Dennis Turner, esquire, Wolverhampton, South East.

Diane Julie Abbott, Hackney, North and Stoke Newington.

Charles Frederick Wardle, esquire, Bexhill and Battle.

Derek Leslie Conway, esquire, Shrewsbury and Atcham.

Robert Gurth Hughes, esquire, Harrow, West.

Michael Clark, esquire, Rochford.

David Glynn Ashby, esquire, Leicestershire, North West.

Sir Donald Thompson, Calder Valley.

Patrick Charles Martyn Nicholls, esquire, Teignbridge.

George Malcolm Thornton, esquire, Crosby.

David Anthony Harris, esquire, St. Ives.

James Callaghan, esquire, Heywood and Middleton.

Stanley James Allen Hill, esquire, Southampton, Test.

Peter Gerald Malone, esquire, Winchester.

Robert James Adley, esquire, Christchurch.

Royston John Hughes, esquire, Newport East.

Right honourable David Arthur Russell Howell, Guildford.

Colin Pickthall, esquire, West Lancashire.

David Marshall, esquire, Glasgow, Shettleston.

Michael Connarty, esquire, Falkirk, East.

Ronald Campbell, esquire, Blyth Valley.

James Robert Wallace, esquire, Orkney and Shetland.

Eric Douglas Harvey Hoyle, esquire, Warrington, North.

Jeffrey William Rooker, esquire, Birmingham, Perry Barr.

Kenneth Purchase, esquire, Wolverhampton, North East.

David Patrick Paul Alton, esquire, Liverpool, Mossley Hill.

Nigel Griffiths, esquire, Edinburgh, South.

George Edward Howarth, esquire, Knowsley, North.

Elizabeth Lynne, Rochdale.

Iain MacDonald Sproat, esquire, Harwich.

Timothy Robert Devlin, esquire, Stockton, South.

James Norwich Arbuthnot, esquire, Wanstead and Woodford.

Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, esquire, commonly called Earl of Ancram and known as Michael Ancram, Devizes.

Mark Noel Foster Robinson, esquire, Somerton and Frome.

Steven John Norris, esquire, Epping Forest.

Sir Robert Anthony Bevis Durant, Reading, West.

Richard Francis, Earl of Kilmorey, known as Richard Francis Needham, esquire, North Wiltshire.

Sir George Arthur Gardiner, Reigate.

Edwina, Mrs. Currie, South Derbyshire.

Richard Patrick Tracey, esquire, Surbiton.

Kenneth Roy Thomason, esquire, Bromsgrove.

Norman Hogg, esquire, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth.

Malcolm George Richardson Chisholm, esquire, Edinburgh, Leith.

Thomas McAvoy, esquire, Glasgow, Rutherglen.

John Valentine Butterfill, esquire, Bournemouth, West.

David Gordon Clelland, esquire, Tyne Bridge.

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Robin Clifford Squire, esquire, Hornchurch.

Gerald Neil Steinberg, esquire, City of Durham.

Herbert Keith Speed, esquire, RD, Ashford.

Henry Baird McLeish, esquire, Fife, Central.

John Marek, esquire, Wrexham.

Kenneth Eastham, esquire, Manchester, Blackley.

John Matthew Patrick Hutton, esquire, Barrow and Furness.

David Julian Winnick, esquire, Walsall, North.

Alan Simpson, esquire, Nottingham, South.

Piara Singh Khabra, esquire, Ealing, Southall.

Donald Michael Ellison Foster, esquire, Bath.

John Thompson, esquire, Wansbeck.

Joan Mary, Mrs. Ruddock, Lewisham, Deptford.

John Rhodes Horam, esquire, Orpington.

Robert Brannock Jones, esquire, West Hertfordshire.

Andrew Stuart Mackinlay, esquire, Thurrock.

Ian Cameron Bruce, esquire, South Dorset.

Clifford Forsythe, esquire, South Antrim.

Sir Gordon Hannam, Exeter.

Ralph Frederic Howell, esquire, North Norfolk.

John Crocket Bowis, esquire, Battersea.

James Alexander Kilfedder, esquire, North Down.

Peter James Bottomley, esquire, Eltham.

John Leslie Marshall, esquire, Hendon South.

William Connoll Walker, esquire, North Tayside.

Roy Beggs, esquire, East Antrim.

Rupert William Simon Allason, esquire, Torbay.

Michael Nicholson Lord, esquire, Central Suffolk.

Neville Guthrie Trotter, esquire, Tynemouth.

Eric Lionel Clarke, esquire, Midlothian.

Estelle Morris, Birmingham, Yardley.

John Allan Stewart, esquire, Eastwood.

Andrew Peter Miller, esquire, Ellesmere Port and Neston.

Richard Haines Burden, esquire, Birmingham, Northfield.

Alan Wynne Williams, esquire, Carmarthen.

Nigel David Jones, esquire, Cheltenham.

Dr. Lewis George Moonie, Kirkcaldy.

Helen Margaret, Mrs. Jackson, Sheffield, Hillsborough.

Llinos, Mrs. Golding, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Alistair Maclean Darling, esquire, Edinburgh, Central.

George William Stevenson, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, South.

Geoffrey Lofthouse, esquire, Pontefract and Castleford.

Dr. Norman Anthony Godman, Greenock and Port Glasgow.

Andrew Francis Bennett, esquire, Denton and Reddish.

Barry John Anthony Field, esquire, Isle of Wight.

Edward Henry Garnier, esquire, Harborough.

Matthew Hadrian Marshall Carrington, esquire, Fulham.

Reverend William Martin Smyth, Belfast, South.

Michael Keith Beale Colvin, esquire, Romsey and Waterside.

Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, esquire, Saffron Walden.

James Edward Thornton Paice, esquire, South East Cambridgeshire.

Walter Edward Sweeney, esquire, Vale of Glamorgan.

Right honourable Nicholas Paul Scott, MBE, Chelsea.

George Alexander Bryson Kynoch, esquire, Kincardine and Deeside.

Sir David Bower Mitchell, North West Hampshire.

Dr. Liam Fox, Woodspring.

William David Madel, esquire, South West Bedfordshire.

Sir John Marcus Fox, Shipley.

Vernon Edward Hartley Booth, esquire, Finchley.

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John McAllion, esquire, Dundee, East.

Geoffrey William Hoon, esquire, Ashfield.

Richard George Caborn, esquire, Sheffield Central.

Derek Anthony Enright, esquire, Hemsworth.

William John Olner, esquire, Nuneaton.

John Alston Maxton, esquire, Glasgow, Cathcart.

Donald Anderson, esquire, Swansea, East.

Jonathan Owen Jones, esquire, Cardiff Central.

John Dominic Battle, esquire, Leeds West.

Joseph Alan Meale, esquire, Mansfield.

Katherine, Mrs. Adams, Paisley North.

Eric Evelyn Illsley, esquire, Barnsley Central.

Michael Clapham, esquire, Barnsley West and Penistone.

Michael O'Brien, esquire, North Warwickshire.

Martin Redmond, esquire, Don Valley.

Andrew Welsh, esquire, Angus East.

William Etherington, esquire, Sunderland North.

Alexander Elliott Anderson Salmond, esquire, Banff and Buchan.

Nicholas John Hawkins, esquire, Blackpool South.

Angela Ann, Mrs. Knight, Erewash.

Sir John Daniel Wheeler, Westminster North.

David Roy Lidington, esquire, Aylesbury.

James Douglas Cran, esquire, Beverley.

Ian David Twinn, esquire, Edmonton.

Philip Warren Hawksley, esquire, Halesowen and Stourbridge.

John Mark Taylor, esquire, Solihull.

Nicholas Raymond Winterton, esquire, Macclesfield.

Oliver Heald, esquire, North Hertfordshire.

Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown, esquire, Cirencester and Tewkesbury.

Jacqueline Anne Harkness, Mrs Lait, Hastings and Rye.

Roger Kenneth Evans, esquire, Monmouth.

Roger Stott, esquire, CBE, Wigan.

Alan James Beith, esquire, Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Austin Vernon Mitchell, esquire, Great Grimsby.

Right honourable John Haggitt Charles Patten, Oxford West and Abingdon.

Alan Milburn, esquire, Darlington.

Alistair James Hendrie Burt, esquire, Bury North.

Adam Paterson Ingram, esquire, East Kilbride.

Eric Anthony Martlew, esquire, Carlisle.

Charles Peter Kennedy, esquire, Ross, Cromarty and Skye.

David George Hanson, esquire, Delyn.

Bruce Joseph Grocott, esquire, The Wrekin.

Stuart Bell, esquire, Middlesbrough.

Paul Yaw Boateng, esquire, Brent South.

Harold Barnes, esquire, North East Derbyshire.

Hugh Bayley, esquire, York.

James Boyce, esquire. Rotherham.

Hugh Patrick Thompson, esquire. Norwich North.

Stephen Richard Day, esquire, Cheadle.

Graham Edward Galloway Riddick, esquire, Colne Valley.

David Leonard Congdon, esquire, Croydon, North East.

Michael St. John Trend, esquire, Windsor and Maidenhead.

Piers Rolf Garfield Merchant, esquire. Beckenham.

Sebastian Newbold Coe, esquire, Falmouth and Camborne.

Terence Patrick Dicks, esquire, Hayes and Harlington.

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John Robert Greenway, esquire, Ryedale.

Gary Nicholas Streeter, esquire. Plymouth, Sutton.

David Laidlaw Knox, esquire, Staffordshire Moorlands.

Peter James Luff, esquire, Worcester.

Olga Helen Maitland, commonly called Lady Olga Maitland, Sutton and Cheam.

Michael Louis David Fabricant, esquire, Mid Staffordshire.

James Randall Couchman, esquire, Gillingham.

John Graham Blackburn, esquire, Dudley West.

David John Nicholson, esquire, Taunton.

Nicholas Richard Ainger, esquire, Pembroke.

Peter Kilfoyle, esquire, Liverpool, Walton.

Clive James Charles Betts, esquire, Sheffield, Attercliffe.

Gerald Edward Bermingham, esquire, St. Helens South.

Thomas Graham, esquire, Renfrew West and Inverclyde.

Elfyn Llwyd, esquire. Meirionnydd Nant Conwy.

Ieuan Wyn Jones, esquire, Ynys Môn.

Ronald Davies, esquire, Caerphilly.

David Wright Young, esquire, Bolton, South East.

Simon Patrick Tipping, esquire, Sherwood.

Michael John Martin, esquire, Glasgow, Springburn.

Lawrence Francis Cunliffe, esquire, Leigh.

Lynne Mary Jones, Birmingham, Selly Oak.

Ann Coffey, Stockport.

Barbara Maureen, Mrs. Roche, Hornsey and Wood Green.

William Michie, esquire, Sheffield, Heeley.

John Heppell, esquire, Nottingham, East.

John Eric Austin-Walker, esquire, Woolwich.

Peter Hardy, esquire, Wentworth.

William Ross, esquire, East Londonderry.

Nicholas Brian Baker, esquire, North Dorset.

Charles Hendry, esquire, High Peak.

Matthew Richard William Banks, esquire, Southport.

Roger James Gale, esquire, North Thanet.

Sir Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor, baronet, Upminster.

Reverend Robert Thomas William McCrea, Mid-Ulster.

Sir Edward Macmillan Taylor, Southend, East.

Winston Spencer Churchill, esquire, Davyhulme.

Edward Julian Egerton Leigh, esquire, Gainsborough and Horncastle.

Raymond William Whitney, esquire, OBE, Wycombe.

Madam Speaker: Order. I have been very generous with time. I did say that I would leave the Chair at 4.30 pm. I wanted to accommodate hon. Members by being in the Chair to allow them to take the Oath. However, I fear that the numbers of hon. Members wishing to do so is growing. I must suspend at 4.45 pm. and I shall leave the Chair at precisely that time. Hon. Members can now make their own dispensations.

Robert Kenneth Litherland, esquire, Manchester, Central.

Tony Banks, esquire, Newham, North West.

James Marshall, esquire, Leicester, South

Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, esquire, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.

David Charles Jamieson, esquire, Plymouth, Devonport.

Peter Charles Snape, esquire, West Bromwich, East

Sir David Russell Johnston, Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber.

Kim Scott Howells, esquire, Pontypridd.

Graham William Allen, esquire, Nottingham, North.

Michael Stephen, esquire, Shoreham.

Christopher Robert Smith, esquire, Islington, South and Finsbury.

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David Lawrence Shaw, esquire, Dover.

Jacques Arnold Arnold, esquire, Gravesham.

Kevin John Barron, esquire, Rother Valley.

Ivan John Lawrence, esquire, QC, Burton.

Robert Adrian Hicks, esquire, South East Cornwall.

George Barrington Porter, esquire, Wirral, South.

David Lincoln Lightbown, esquire, South East Staffordshire.

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, esquire, Hartlepool.

David Martin Hinchliffe, esquire, Wakefield.

Sydney Brookes Chapman, esquire, Chipping Barnet.

David Blunkett, esquire, Sheffield, Brightside.

Right honourable Peter Leonard Brooke, CH, The City of London and Westminster, South.

Robert William Ainsworth, esquire, Coventry, North East.

Paul Marland, esquire, West Gloucestershire.

Barry John Sheerman, esquire, Huddersfield.

Simon Christopher Coombs, esquire, Swindon.

Frank Field, esquire, Birkenhead.

Alan James Carter Duncan, esquire, Rutland and Melton.

Anthony Worthington, esquire, Clydebank and Milngavie.

Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns, esquire, Chelmsford.

Anthony Joseph Lloyd, esquire, Stretford.

Michael Reginald Harry Carttiss, esquire, Great Yarmouth.

Robin Corbett, esquire, Birmingham, Erdington.

Dame Janet Evelyn Fookes, DBE, Plymouth, Drake.

James Patrick Dowd, esquire, Lewisham, West.

David John Pattison Martin, esquire, Portsmouth, South.

James Charles Cann, esquire, Ipswich.

Peter Landreth Atkinson, esquire, Hexham.

Trevor Keith Hill, esquire, Streatham.

Sir Alexander Paul Beresford, Croydon, Central.

Dafydd Wigley, esquire, Caernarfon.

John Michael Gorst, esquire, Hendon, North.

Greg James Pope, esquire, Hyndburn.

Sir Peter Maudslay Hordern, Horsham.

Mike Thomas Hall, esquire, Warrington, South.

David Wilshire, esquire, Spelthorne.

Martin John O'Neill, esquire, Clackmannan.

John Alan Redwood, esquire, Wokingham.

Janet, Mrs. Anderson, Rossendale and Darwen.

Jonathan Peter Evans, esquire, Brecon and Radnor.

Paul Archer Tyler, esquire, CBE, North Cornwall.

David John Porter, esquire. Waveney.

Nick Harvey, esquire, North Devon.

George Lain Duncan-Smith, esquire, Chingford.

Glenda May Jackson, Hampstead and Highgate.

Andrew Raikes Hargreaves, esquire, Birmingham, Hall Green.

Joyce Gwendolen Quin, Gateshead, East.

lain Campbell Mills, esquire, Meriden.

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

John Rankin Rathbone, esquire, Lewes.

James Mackay Cousins, esquire, Newcastle upon Tyne, Central

Malcolm Douglas Moss, esquire, North East Cambridgeshire.

James Hood, esquire, Clydesdale.

Cyril David Townsend, esquire, Bexleyheath.

Malcolm Hunt Wicks, esquire, Croydon, North West.

Right honourable Kenneth Wilfred Baker, CH, Mole Valley.

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Dawn Primarolo, Bristol, South.

John Ernest Townend, esquire, Bridlington.

Jean Ann Corston, Bristol, East.

Richard John Grenville Spring, esquire, Bury St. Edmunds.

Bryan Davies, esquire, Oldham Central and Royton.

Thomas Geoffrey Sackville, esquire, commonly called the honourable Thomas Geoffrey Sackville, Bolton, West.

John Laurence Garrett, esquire, Norwich, South.

Raymond Scott Robertson, esquire, Aberdeen, South.

Gordon McMaster, esquire, Paisley, South.

Right honourable Sir leuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts, Conwy.

Simon Henry Ward Hughes, esquire, Southwark and Bermondsey.

Philip Roy Gallie, esquire, Ayr.

John Gunnell, esquire, Morley and Leeds, South.

Andrew Robert Frederick Hunter, esquire, Basingstoke.

Michael John Gapes, esquire, Ilford, South.

John Arthur Watts, esquire, Slough.

Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, esquire, Leicester, East.

Nigel Martin Evans, esquire, Ribble Valley.

Francis Cook, esquire, Stockton, North.

Roderick Richards, esquire, Clwyd, North West.

Kevin Michael Hughes, esquire, Doncaster, North.

Angela Frances, Mrs. Browning, Tiverton.

Hilary Jane Armstrong, North West Durham.

John David Sykes, esquire, Scarborough.

Andrew David Smith, esquire, Oxford, East.

John Devereux Ward, esquire, CBE, Poole.

Brian Charles John Sedgemore, esquire, Hackney, South and Shoreditch.

Sir Dudley Gordon Smith, Warwick and Leamington.

Andrew Matthew William Faulds, esquire, Warley, East.

Right honourable William John Biffen, North Shropshire.

Gareth Lodwig Wardell, esquire, Gower.

Patrick Thomas Cormack, esquire, South Staffordshire.

Anne Campbell, Cambridge.

Emma Harriet Nicholson, Torridge and West Devon.

Anthony Wayland Wright, esquire, Cannock and Burntwood.

Bowen Wells, esquire, Hertford and Stortford.

Nigel John Spearing, esquire, Newham, South.

Graham Frank James Bright, esquire, Luton, South.

Christopher John Mullin, esquire, Sunderland, South.

Right honourable Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury, Hove

Stephen John Byers, esquire, Wallsend.

David James Christian Faber, esquire, Westbury.

John Evans, esquire, St. Helens, North.

Harold Daniel Hope Elletson, esquire, Blackpool, North.

Terence Anthony Gordon Davis, esquire, Birmingham, Hodge Hill.

David Lindsay Willetts, esquire, Havant.

Paul Phillip Flynn, esquire, Newport, West.

Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo, esquire, South Suffolk.

Janet Ray, Mrs. Michie, Argyll and Bute.

Gyles Daubeney Brandreth, esquire, City of Chester.

John Scott Cummings, esquire, Easington.

Peter Michael Ainsworth, esquire, East Surrey.

Douglas John Henderson, esquire, Newcastle upon Tyne, North.

Right honourable Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie, Chertsey and Walton.

Winifred Ann, Mrs. Taylor, Dewsbury.

Ian Colin Taylor, esquire, MBE, Esher.

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George Islay Macneill Robertson, esquire, Hamilton.

Peter Derek Fry, esquire, Wellingborough.

Dr. Jeremy William Bray, Motherwell, South.

Cheryl Elise Kendall, Mrs. Gillan, Chesham and Amersham.

James Wray, esquire, Glasgow, Provan.

Right honourable Sir Nicholas Walter Lyell, QC, Mid Bedfordshire.

Dr. John Reid, Motherwell, North.

Andrew John Bower Mitchell, esquire, Gedling.

Donald Dixon, esquire, Jarrow.

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

Richard Lewis Page, esquire, South West Hertfordshire.

Richard Thain Alexander, esquire, Newark.

Densmore Ronald Dover, esquire, Chorley.

Toby Francis Henry Jessel, esquire, Twickenham.

David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick, esquire, Bosworth.

Alan Thomas Howarth, esquire, CBE, Stratford-on-Avon.

Right honourable Thomas Michael Jopling, Westmorland and Lonsdale.

John Quentin Davies, esquire, Stamford and Spalding.

Peter Giles Thurnham, esquire, Bolton, North East.

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Peter John Viggers, esquire, Gosport.

Henry Campbell Bellingham, esquire, North West Norfolk.

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

Right honourable Sir Peter Norman Fowler, Sutton Coldfield.

Julian William Hendy Brazier, esquire, Canterbury.

Hugh John Maxwell Dykes, esquire, Harrow, East.

Right honourable Sir John Paul Stanley, Tonbridge and Malling.

Clare Short, Birmingham, Ladywood.

John Russell Carlisle, esquire, Luton, North.

Robert George Banks, esquire, Harrogate.

Marjorie Mowlam, Redcar.

Raymond Powell, esquire, Ogmore.

Dale Norman Campbell-Savours, esquire, Workington.

Ann Noreen Widdecombe, Maidstone.

Timothy Eric Boswell, esquire, Daventry.

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Arbuthnot.]
Adjourned accordingly at twenty 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 Lichfield.

Speaker of the House of Commons
The Lord Chancellor (Lord Mackay of Clashfern): My Lords, I beg to acquaint the House that a Commission has been issued under Her Majesty's Great Seal to several Lords therein named authorising the said Lords to declare in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty Her Majesty's Approbation of the choice of the Commons of Miss Betty Boothroyd to be their Speaker.
Then, the Lords Commissioners (the Lord Chancellor (Lord Mackay of Clashfern), the Earl Ferrers, the Lord Aberdare, the Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos and the Lord Jenkins of Hillhead) being robed and seated in front of the Throne, the Lord Chancellor directed Black Rod as follows: Let the Commons know that the Lords Commissioners desire their immediate attendance in this House.
Then, the Commons being at the Bar, Madam Speaker-Elect (Miss Betty Boothroyd), addressing the Royal Commissioners, said: My Lords, I have to acquaint your Lordships that, in obedience to the Royal Command, Her Majesty's 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 on myself. I therefore present myself at your Lordships' Bar and submit myself with all humility for Her Majesty's gracious Approbation.
The Lord Chancellor: My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, it not being convenient to Her Majesty to be personally present here at this time, a Commission has been issued under the Great Seal commanding us and several other Lords therein named to notify and declare Her Majesty's Approbation of the choice of her faithful Commons of Betty Boothroyd to be their Speaker, which Commission you will now hear read.
Then, the Commission having been read at the Table, the Lord Chancellor said: Miss Boothroyd, 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
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which her faithful Commons have selected you to discharge, that Her Majesty does most readily approve and confirm you as their Speaker.
The 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, 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: Madam Speaker, we have it further in Command to inform you that Her Majesty does 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, Madam, 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.
The Speaker and the Commons then retired.

Lord Wakeham
The Right Honourable John Wakeham, having been created Baron Wakeham, of Maldon in County of Essex, for life—Was, in his robes, introduced between the Lord Denham and the Lord Waddington.
Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
The Right Honourable Lynda Landa (commonly known as Lynda Chalker), having been created Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, of Leigh-on-Sea in the County of Essex, for life—Was, in her robes, introduced between the Lord Carrington and the Baroness Denton of Wakefield.

Peers and Oath of Allegiance
Lord Peyton of Yeovil Lord Peyton of Yeovil—Took the Oath.
The Earl of Portland The Earl of Portland —Sat first in Parliament after the death of his kinsman.
Several Lords Several Lords —Took the Oath or Affirmed.
House adjourned at seven o'clock.