| Commons Journal 254
Chronological Index
Alphabetical Index - Part I
Alphabetical Index - Part II
J O U R N A L S
OF THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Session 1997–98
The Parliament begun and held at the City of Westminster, on Monday, the seventh day of May in the forty-sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady ELIZABETH, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith; and in the year of our Lord 1997.
[No. 1.] Wednesday 7th May 1997.
The House met at half-past Two o'clock. PRAYERS.
| 1 | The House being met; and it being the first day of the meeting of this Parliament, pursuant to Proclamation, Donald William Limon, Esquire, C.B., Clerk of the House of Commons, William Robert McKay, Esquire, C.B., Clerk Assistant, and George Cubie, Esquire, Principal Clerk of the Table Office, attending in the House, and the other Clerks attending, according to their duty, Sir Thomas Stuart Legg, K.C.B., Q.C., Clerk of the Crown in Chancery in Great Britain, delivered to the said Donald William Limon a book containing a list of the names of the Members returned to serve in this Parliament. |
Several of the Members repaired to their seats.
Sir Edward Heath took the Chair, pursuant to Standing Order No. 1 (Election of the Speaker).
| 2 | Message to attend the Lords Commissioners,—A Message was received from the Lords Commissioners, by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod: |
Members of the House of Commons,
The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable House in the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read.
| 3 | Accordingly the House went up to the House of Peers, and a Commission having been read for opening and holding the Parliament, the Lords Commissioners directed the House to proceed to the Election of a Speaker, and to present the Speaker Elect to-morrow, in the House of Peers, for the Royal Approbation. |
| 4 | And the House having returned; |
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody proposed to the House for its Speaker Miss Betty Boothroyd, and moved, That the Right honourable Betty Boothroyd do take the Chair of this House as Speaker, which Motion was seconded by Mr John MacGregor.
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Miss Betty Boothroyd then stood up in her place, and expressed the sense she had of the honour proposed to be conferred upon her, and submitted herself to the House.
Resolved, That Miss Betty Boothroyd do take the Chair of this House as Speaker.
Whereupon Sir Edward Heath left the Chair, and Miss Betty Boothroyd was taken out of her place and conducted to the Chair by Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody and Mr John MacGregor, and, standing on the upper step, she expressed her respectful and humble acknowledgement to the House of the great honour which the House had been pleased to confer upon her and sat down in the Chair.
Then the Mace (which before lay under the Table) was placed upon the Table.
Whereupon the Prime Minister, Mr John Major, Mr Paddy Ashdown, Mrs Margaret Ewing, Mr David Trimble and the Reverend Ian Paisley congratulated Madam Speaker Elect, and Mr Thomas McAvoy moved, That this House do now adjourn.
Madam Speaker Elect thereupon put the Question, which being agreed to, the House adjourned accordingly at twenty-eight minutes to Four o'clock, till to-morrow, and Madam Speaker Elect went away without the Mace before her.
[Adjourned at 3.32 p.m.
[No. 2.] Thursday 8th May 1997.
| 1 | The House met at half-past Two o'clock; and Madam Speaker Elect having taken the Chair; |
| 2 | Message to attend the Lords Commissioners,—A Message was received from the Lords Commissioners, by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod: |
Madam Speaker Elect,
The Lords, authorised by virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable House in the House of Peers.
| 3 | Accordingly Madam Speaker Elect, with the House, went up to the House of Peers, where she was presented to the said Lords Commissioners for Her Majesty's Royal Approbation. |
Then the Lord Chancellor, one of the said Lords Commissioners, signified Her Majesty's Approbation of Madam Speaker Elect.
| 4 | The House having returned; |
| 5 | Madam Speaker reported, That the House had been in the House of Peers, where Her Majesty was pleased by Her Majesty's Commissioners to approve the choice the House had made of her to be its Speaker, and that she had in its name and on its behalf by humble Petition to Her Majesty made claim to all its ancient and undoubted Rights and Privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction should be placed upon all its proceedings; which she said Her Majesty, by Her said Commissioners, had been pleased to allow and confirm to it in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by Her Majesty or any of Her Majesty's Royal Predecessors. |
And then Madam Speaker repeated her very respectful acknowledgments and grateful thanks to the House for the great honour it had conferred upon her.
Madam Speaker then put the House in mind that the first thing to be done was to take and subscribe the Oath required by law.
| 6 | Madam Speaker takes the Oath,—Thereupon Madam Speaker first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath. |
| 7 | Death of a Member,—The Speaker made the following communication to the House: |
I regret to have to report to the House the death of Sir Michael Shersby, Member for Uxbridge. I am sure that Members on all sides of the House will join me in mourning the loss of a colleague and in extending our sympathy to the honourable Member's family and friends.
| 8 | Members take the Oath or make Affirmation,—Then the following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law: |
Right honourable Sir Edward Richard
George Heath, K.G., M.B.E. | for Old Bexley and Sidcup |
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Right honourable Anthony Charles
Lynton Blair | Sedgefield. |
| Right honourable John Major | Huntingdon. |
| Right honourable John Leslie Prescott | Kingston upon Hull East. |
| Right honourable Winifred Ann, Mrs Taylor | Dewsbury. |
| Right honourable Robert Finlayson Cook | Livingston. |
| Right honourable James Gordon Brown | Dunfermline East. |
| Right honourable John Whitaker Straw | Blackburn. |
| Right honourable Margaret Mary Beckett | Derby South. |
| Right honourable Dr Gavin Steel Strang | Edinburgh East and Musselburgh. |
| Right honourable David George Clark | South Shields. |
| Right honourable Marjorie Mowlam | Redcar. |
| Right honourable George Islay MacNeill Robertson | Hamilton South. |
| Right honourable Alistair Maclean Darling | Edinburgh Central. |
| Right honourable Ronald Davies | Caerphilly. |
| Right honourable John Anderson Cunningham | Copeland. |
| Right honourable Frank Gordon Dobson | Holborn and St. Pancras. |
| Right honourable Clare Short | Birmingham, Ladywood. |
| Right honourable David Blunkett | Sheffield, Brightside. |
| Right honourable Harriet Ruth Harman | Camberwell and Peckham. |
| Right honourable Christopher Robert Smith | Islington South and Finsbury. |
| Right honourable Donald Campbell Dewar | Glasgow, Anniesland. |
| Right honourable Kenneth Harry Clarke, Q.C. | Rushcliffe. |
| Right honourable Nicholas Hugh Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend. |
| Right honourable Dr Brian Stanley Mawhinney | North West Cambridgeshire. |
| Right honourable Michael Howard, Q.C. | Folkestone and Hythe. |
| Right honourable Alistair Robertson Goodlad | Eddisbury. |
| Right honourable Douglas Martin Hogg, Q.C. | Sleaford and North Hykeham. |
| Right honourable Gillian Patricia, Mrs Shephard | South West Norfolk. |
| Right honourable Peter Bruce Lilley | Hitchin and Harpenden. |
| Right honourable William Jefferson Hague | Richmond (Yorks). |
| Right honourable Jeremy John Durham Ashdown | Yeovil. |
| Right honourable Alan James Beith | Berwick-upon-Tweed. |
| Right honourable Gerald Bernard Kaufman | Manchester, Gorton. |
| Right honourable Robert Edward Sheldon | Ashton-under-Lyne. |
| Right honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn | Chesterfield. |
| Right honourable Alan John Williams | Swansea West. |
| Right honourable Sir Peter Frank Hannibal Emery | East Devon. |
| Right honourable Sir Peter Robert Cable Lloyd | Fareham. |
| Right honourable David John Maclean | Penrith and The Border. |
| Right honourable David Maurice Curry | Skipton and Ripon. |
| Right honourable David Michael Davis | Haltemprice and Howden. |
| Right honourable Eric Forth | Bromley and Chislehurst. |
| Right honourable John David Taylor | Strangford. |
| Right honourable John Michael Jack | Fylde. |
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| Right honourable Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, commonly called Earl of Ancram and known as Right honourable Michael Ancram | Devizes. |
| Right honourable Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude | Horsham. | |
| Right honourable Ann Noreen Widdecombe | Maidstone and The Weald. |
| Right honourable Peter Leonard Brooke, C.H. | Cities of London and Westminster. |
| Right honourable Sir John Paul Stanley | Tonbridge and Malling. |
| Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley | North Antrim. |
| Daffyd Wigley, Esquire | Caernarfon. |
| Margaret Anne, Mrs Ewing | Moray. |
| Winston James Griffiths, Esquire | Bridgend. |
| Samuel Laird Galbraith, Esquire | Strathkelvin and Bearsden. |
| Peter Kilfoyle, Esquire | Liverpool, Walton. |
| John Hume, Esquire | Foyle. |
| John McFall, Esquire | Dumbarton. |
| Jon Owen Jones, Esquire | Cardiff Central. |
| Peter Gerald Hain, Esquire | Neath. |
| George Foulkes, Esquire | Carrick, Cumnock, and Doon Valley. |
| Alan Thomas Howarth, Esquire, C.B.E. | Newport East. |
| Paul Yaw Boateng, Esquire | Brent South. |
| Malcolm George Richardson Chisholm, Esquire | Edinburgh North and Leith. |
| Geoffrey William Hoon, Esquire | Ashfield. |
| Kevin Michael Hughes, Esquire | Doncaster North. |
| John Francis Spellar, Esquire | Warley. |
| Anthony Worthington, Esquire | Clydebank and Milngavie. |
| Estelle Morris | Birmingham, Yardley. |
| Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy, Esquire | Glasgow, Rutherglen. |
| Clive James Charles Betts, Esquire | Sheffield, Attercliffe. |
| Elliot Anthony Morley, Esquire | Scunthorpe. |
| James Patrick Dowd, Esquire | Lewisham West. |
| Jane Elizabeth, Mrs Kennedy | Liverpool, Wavertree. |
| Gregory James Pope, Esquire | Hyndburn. |
| Bridget Theresa, Mrs Prentice | Lewisham East. |
| Dr Kim Scott Howells | Pontypridd. |
| Right honourable Thomas Jeremy King, C.H. | Bridgwater. |
| Graham William Allen, Esquire | Nottingham North. |
| Keith John Charles Bradley, Esquire | Manchester, Withington. |
| Robert William Ainsworth, Esquire | Coventry North East. |
| Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell | Louth and Horncastle. |
| Robert Adam Ross Maclennan, Esquire | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. |
| Sir Richard Bernard Frank Stewart Body | Boston and Skegness. |
| Stephen Barry Jones, Esquire | Alyn and Deeside. |
| Dennis Edward Skinner, Esquire | Bolsover. |
| Thomas Michael Cox, Esquire | Tooting. |
| Sir William David Madel | South West Bedfordshire. |
| Sir Patrick Thomas Cormack | South Staffordshire. |
| Nicholas Raymond Winterton, Esquire | Macclesfield. |
| Roger Stott, Esquire, C.B.E. | Wigan. |
| Sir Michael William Hardy Spicer | West Worcestershire. |
| Bruce Thomas George, Esquire | Walsall South. |
| Andrew Francis Bennett, Esquire | Denton and Reddish. |
| Dennis Andrew Canavan, Esquire | Falkirk West. |
| William Ross, Esquire | East Londonderry. |
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| Right honourable Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith | Wealden. |
| Sir Raymond William Whitney, O.B.E. | Wycombe. |
| John David Home Robertson, Esquire | East Lothian. |
| Brian Charles John Sedgemore, Esquire | Hackney South and Shoreditch. |
| Sir Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst | Saffron Walden. |
| Richard Lewis Page, Esquire | South West Hertfordshire. |
| Giles Heneage Radice, Esquire | North Durham. |
| Dale Norman Campbell-Savours, Esquire | Workington. |
| David Marshall, Esquire | Glasgow, Shettleston. |
| Ernest Ross, Esquire | Dundee West. |
| John Alston Maxton, Esquire | Glasgow, Cathcart. |
| Lawrence Francis Cunliffe, Esquire | Leigh. |
| Sir Sydney Brookes Chapman | Chipping Barnet. |
| Martin John O'Neill, Esquire | Ochil. |
| Sir Raymond Powell | Ogmore. |
| Angus Paton Welsh, Esquire | Angus. |
| David Julian Winnick, Esquire | Walsall North. |
| Michael John Martin, Esquire | Glasgow, Springburn. |
| Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor | Rochford and Southend East. |
| Michael Keith Beale Colvin, Esquire | Romsey. |
| James Marshall, Esquire | Leicester South. |
| Clive Stafford Soley, Esquire | Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush. |
| Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd, Esquire | Aldridge-Brownhills. |
| John Arbuthnot Du Cane Wilkinson, Esquire | Ruislip-Northwood. |
| John David McWilliam, Esquire | Blaydon. |
| Frank Field, Esquire | Birkenhead. |
| Reverend William Martin Smyth | Belfast South. |
| Right honourable Stephen James Dorrell | Charnwood. |
| Marion Audrey, Mrs Roe | Broxbourne. |
| Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, Esquire | Roxburgh and Berwickshire. |
| Simon Robert Key, Esquire | Salisbury. |
| Roger James Gale, Esquire | North Thanet. |
| Charles Frederick Wardle, Esquire | Bexhill and Battle. |
| Jane Ann, Mrs Winterton | Congleton. |
| Clifford Forsythe, Esquire | South Antrim. |
| Cecil Walker, Esquire | Belfast North. |
| William Michie, Esquire | Sheffield, Heeley. |
| Roy Beggs, Esquire | East Antrim. |
| Andrew James MacKay, Esquire | Bracknell. |
| John Valentine Butterfill, Esquire | Bournemouth West. |
| Francis Cook, Esquire | Stockton North. |
| Dr Norman Anthony Godman | Greenock and Inverclyde. |
| John Mark Taylor, Esquire | Solihull. |
| Michael Nicholson Lord, Esquire | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. |
| Peter Leslie Pike, Esquire | Burnley. |
| James Robert Wallace, Esquire | Orkney and Shetland. |
| Charles Peter Kennedy, Esquire | Ross, Skye and Inverness West. |
| Robert Nelson Wareing, Esquire | Liverpool, West Derby. |
| Terence Anthony Gordon Davis, Esquire | Birmingham, Hodge Hill. |
| Robin Corbett, Esquire | Birmingham, Erdington. |
| Malcolm Gray Bruce, Esquire | Gordon. |
| Ann Clwyd | Cynon Walley. |
| William O'Brien, Esquire | Normanton. |
| Patrick Allen McLoughlin, Esquire | West Derbyshire. |
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| Andrew Robert Frederick Hunter, Esquire | Basingstoke. |
| Robert Victor Jackson, Esquire | Wantage. |
| David Martin Hinchliffe, Esquire | Wakefield. |
| Audrey, Mrs Wise | Preston. |
| Alice, Mrs Mahon | Halifax. |
| Maria, Mrs Fyfe | Glasgow, Maryhill. |
| Simon Henry Ward Hughes, Esquire | North Southwark and Bermondsey. |
| Eric Evelyn Illsley, Esquire | Barnsley Central. |
| Harold Barnes, Esquire | North East Derbyshire. |
| John Scott Cummings, Esquire | Easington. |
| Ronald Campbell, Esquire | Blyth Valley. |
| Donald Anderson, Esquire | Swansea East. |
| Gerald Neil Steinberg, Esquire | City of Durham. |
| Timothy Eric Boswell, Esquire | Daventry. |
| Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns, Esquire | West Chelmsford. |
| Patrick Charles Martyn Nicholls, Esquire | Teignbridge. |
| James Douglas Cran, Esquire | Beverley and Holderness. |
| Christopher John Fred Gill, Esquire, R.D. | Ludlow. |
| John McAllion, Esquire | Dundee East. |
| James Hood, Esquire | Clydesdale. |
| Matthew Owen John Taylor, Esquire | Truro and St Austell. |
| Ieuan Wyn Jones, Esquire | Ynys Mo(r)n. |
| Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant, Esquire | Tottenham. | |
| Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond, Esquire | Banff and Buchan. |
| James Wray, Esquire | Glasgow, Baillieston. |
| David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick, Esquire | Bosworth. |
| Joan Mary, Mrs Ruddock | Lewisham, Deptford. |
| Frank Doran, Esquire | Aberdeen Central |
| Christopher John Mullin, Esquire | Sunderland South. |
| Eric Anthony Martlew, Esquire | Carlisle. |
| James Norwich Arbuthnot, Esquire | North East Hampshire. |
| Ian Cameron Bruce, Esquire | South Dorset. |
| Janet Ray, Mrs Michie | Argyll and Bute. |
| Stephen Richard Day, Esquire | Cheadle. |
| Katherine Letitia Hoey | Vauxhall. |
| David Trimble, Esquire | Upper Bann. |
| Right honourable Sir Archibald Gavin Hamilton | Epsom and Ewell. |
| Paul Phillip Flynn, Esquire | Newport West. |
| William John Olner, Esquire | Nuneaton. |
| James Dolan Cunningham, Esquire | Coventry South. |
| Piara Singh Khabra, Esquire | Ealing, Southall. |
| David George Hanson, Esquire | Delyn. |
| Edward Henry Garnier, Esquire, Q.C. | Harborough. |
| Andrew Peter Miller, Esquire | Ellesmere Port and Neston. |
| Rachel Anne Squire | Dunfermline West. |
| Malcolm Douglas Moss, Esquire | North East Cambridgeshire. |
| Gary Nicholas Streeter, Esquire | South West Devon. |
| Jean Ann Corston | Bristol East. |
| George William Stevenson, Esquire | Stoke on Trent South. |
| William James Clappison, Esquire | Hertsmere. |
| Nicholas Richard Ainger, Esquire | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire. |
| Oliver Heald, Esquire | North East Hertfordshire. |
| Adam Paterson Ingram, Esquire | East Kilbride. |
| Martyn David Jones, Esquire | Clwyd South. |
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| Michael Clapham, Esquire | Barnsley West and Penistone. |
| Jeffrey Ennis, Esquire | Barnsley East and Mexborough. |
| Angela Frances, Mrs Browning | Tiverton and Honiton. |
| Peter Landreth Atkinson, Esquire | Hexham. |
| Katherine, Mrs Adams | Paisley North. |
| Roger Duncan Godsiff, Esquire | Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath. |
| Dr Lynne Mary Jones | Birmingham, Selly Oak. |
| Neil Francis Gerrard, Esquire. | Walthamstow. |
| Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz, Esquire | Leicester East. |
| Margaret Eve, Mrs Hodge, M.B.E. | Barking. |
| Thomas Pendry, Esquire | Stalybridge and Hyde. |
| Dr John Marek | Wrexham. |
| Bruce Joseph Grocott, Esquire | Telford. |
| John Matthew Patrick Hutton, Esquire | Barrow and Furness. |
| Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Esquire | Bath. |
| Helen Margaret, Mrs Jackson | Sheffield, Hillsborough. |
| David William George Chidgey, Esquire | Eastleigh. |
| Michael St. John Trend, Esquire, commonly called the honourable Michael St. John Trend | Windsor. |
| James Keith Chapman, Esquire | Wirral South. |
| Huw William Edmund Edwards, Esquire | Monmouth. |
| William John Gunnell, Esquire | Morley and Rothwell. |
| James Donnelly Touhig, Esquire | Islwyn. |
| Hugh Bayley, Esquire | City of York. |
| George Iain Duncan Smith, Esquire | Chingford and Woodford Green. |
| Nicholas John Hawkins, Esquire | Surrey Heath. |
| Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell | Dulwich and West Norwood. |
| Joyce Gwendolen Quin | Gateshead East and Washington West. |
| Alan Milburn, Esquire | Darlington. |
| William Etherington, Esquire | Sunderland North. |
| Gwyneth Patricia, Mrs Dunwoody, commonly called the honourable Mrs Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody | Crewe and Nantwich. |
| Brian David Henderson Wilson, Esquire | Cunninghame North. |
| Cheryl Elise Kendall, Mrs Gillan | Chesham and Amersham. |
| John Flashby Lawrance Whittingdale, Esquire | Maldon and East Chelmsford. |
| Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown, Esquire | Cotswold. |
| Roseanna Cunningham | Perth. |
| Peter James Bottomley, Esquire | Worthing West. |
| Gerry Sutcliffe, Esquire | Bradford South. |
| Richard Haines Burden, Esquire | Birmingham, Northfield. |
| Joan Lorraine Walley | Stoke on Trent North. |
| Ian Phares Pearson, Esquire | Dudley South. |
| James Edward Thornton Paice, Esquire | South East Cambridgeshire. |
| Denis MacShane, Esquire | Rotherham. |
| Michael Connarty, Esquire | Falkirk East. |
| Richard John Grenville Spring, Esquire | West Suffolk. |
| John Heppell, Esquire | Nottingham East. |
| Michael Louis David Fabricant, Esquire | Lichfield. |
| David Digby Rendel, Esquire | Newbury. |
| Jon Hedley Trickett, Esquire | Hemsworth. |
| Simon Patrick Tipping, Esquire | Sherwood. |
| Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, Esquire, commonly called the honourable Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames | Mid Sussex. |
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| Bernard Christison Jenkin, Esquire, commonly called the honourable Bernard Christison Jenkin | North Essex. |
| Dr Anthony Wayland Wright | Cannock Chase. |
| Gordon Prentice, Esquire | Pendle. |
| Anne Caroline Ballingall Mcintosh | Vale of York. |
| Christopher James Fraser, Esquire | Mid Dorset and North Poole. |
| Keith Robert Simpson, Esquire | Mid Norfolk. |
| Julian Murray Lewis, Esquire | New Forest East. |
| Owen William Paterson, Esquire | North Shropshire. |
| Howard Emerson Flight, Esquire | Arundel and South Downs. |
| Barbara Maureen, Mrs Roche | Hornsey and Wood Green. |
| Laurence Anthony Robertson, Esquire | Tewkesbury. |
| Right honourable Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baronet | North West Hampshire. |
| Robert Andrew Raymond Syms, Esquire | Poole. |
| Iain Coleman, Esquire | Hammersmith and Fulham. |
| Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw, Esquire | Exeter. |
| Fraser Kemp, Esquire | Houghton and Washington East. |
| Ian Arthur Cawsey, Esquire | Brigg and Goole. |
| Rudolf Jan Vis, Esquire | Finchley and Golders Green. |
| Andrew David Lansley, Esquire | South Cambridgeshire. |
| Michael Thomas Hancock, Esquire | Portsmouth South. |
| Richard Arthur Lloyd Livsey, Esquire | Brecon and Radnorshire. |
| Lembit Opik, Esquire | Montgomeryshire. |
| Dr Jennifer Louise Tonge | Richmond Park. |
| Edward Jonathon Davey, Esquire | Kingston and Surbiton. |
| Paul Kenneth Burstow, Esquire | Sutton and Cheam. |
| Denis Murphy, Esquire | Wansbeck. |
| Julian William Hendy Brazier, Esquire, T.D. | Canterbury. |
| Paul Archer Tyler, Esquire, C.B.E. | North Cornwall. |
| Malcolm Hunt Wicks, Esquire | Croydon North. |
| Desmond Stanley Turner, Esquire | Brighton, Kemptown. |
| Peter Michael Ainsworth, Esquire | East Surrey. |
| Christine Margaret Butler | Castle Point. |
| Helen Mary Jones | Warrington North. |
| Jovanka, Mrs Humble | Blackpool North and Fleetwood. |
| Andrew Hartley Dismore, Esquire | Hendon. |
| Anthony James McNulty, Esquire | Harrow East. |
| James Fitzpatrick, Esquire | Poplar and Canning Town. |
| Llewellyn Thomas Smith, Esquire | Blaenau Gwent. |
| Clare Judith Mallaber | Amber Valley. |
| Linda, Mrs Gilroy | Plymouth, Sutton. |
| Christine Margaret Russell | City of Chester. |
| Jennifer Grace Jones | Wolverhampton South West. |
| Right honourable John Roddick Russell MacGregor, O.B.E. | South Norfolk. |
| Roger Leslie Berry, Esquire | Kingswood. |
| Jeffery Mark Donaldson, Esquire | Lagan Valley. |
| John Martin McDonnell, Esquire | Hayes and Harlington. |
| Gareth Richard Thomas, Esquire | Harrow West. |
| Mark Wainwright Todd, Esquire | South Derbyshire. |
| Ann Lloyd, Mrs Keen | Brentford and Isleworth. |
| Colin Burgon, Esquire | Elmet. |
| David Anthony Lock, Esquire | Wyre Forest. |
| John Cradock Maples, Esquire | Stratford on Avon. |
| Eleanor Fulton, Mrs Laing | Epping Forest. |
| Andrew Stunell, Esquire | Hazel Grove. |
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| Melanie Jane Johnson | Welwyn Hatfield. |
| Phyllis Margaret, Mrs Starkey | Milton Keynes South West. |
| Jacqueline Jill Smith | Redditch. |
| Paul Stuart Keetch, Esquire | Hereford. |
| William John Thompson, Esquire | West Tyrone. |
| Thomas Hilton Dawson, Esquire | Lancaster and Wyre. |
| Ann Coffey | Stockport. |
| Ian Graham Davidson, Esquire | Glasgow, Pollok. |
| Anne Campbell | Cambridge. |
| Harold Best, Esquire | Leeds North West. |
| Anthony Richard Clarke, Esquire | Northampton South. |
| Stephen Creswell Timms, Esquire | East Ham. |
| Donald Cameron Easterbrook Gorrie, Esquire | Edinburgh West. |
| Paul Gerard Goggins, Esquire | Wythenshawe and Sale East. |
| Hazel Anne Blears | Salford. |
| Stephen Pelham Pound, Esquire | Ealing North. |
| 9 | Adjournment,—Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Mr Clive Betts.) |
And accordingly the House, having continued to sit till two minutes to Five o'clock, adjourned till to-morrow.
[Adjourned at 4.58 p.m.
[No. 3.]
Friday 9th May 1997.
The House met at half-past Nine o'clock.
PRAYERS.
| 1 | Members take the Oath or make Affirmation,—The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law: |
| Glenda May Jackson, C.B.E. | for Hampstead and Highgate. |
| Terence Lewis, Esquire | Worsley. |
| Right honourable John Alan Redwood | Wokingham. |
| Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway, Esquire | Croydon South. |
| John Quentin Davies, Esquire | Grantham and Stamford. |
| Peter David Robinson, Esquire | Belfast East. |
| Peter James Luff, Esquire | Mid Worcestershire. |
| Nigel Martin Evans, Esquire | Ribble Valley. |
| John Rhodes Horam, Esquire | Orpington. |
| Sir Alexander Paul Beresford | Mole Valley. |
| Derek John Fatchett, Esquire | Leeds Central. |
| Paul Peter Murphy, Esquire | Torfaen. |
| Ian McCartney, Esquire | Makerfield. |
| David Anthony Atkinson, Esquire | Bournemouth East. |
| Edward Julian Egerton Leigh, Esquire | Gainsborough. |
| John Dominic Battle, Esquire | Leeds West. |
| Joseph Alan Meale, Esquire | Mansfield. |
| David Anthony Andrew Amess, Esquire | Southend West. |
| Ian Stewart, Esquire | Eccles. |
| Lindsay Harvey Hoyle, Esquire | Chorley. |
| Howard Geoffrey Alvin Stoate, Esquire | Dartford. |
| Beverley June Hughes | Stretford and Urmston. |
| Linda Perham | Ilford North. |
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| John Healey, Esquire | Wentworth. |
| Ronald Cyril Fearn, Esquire | Southport. |
| Louise Joyce Ellman | Liverpool, Riverside. |
| Jacqueline Rita, Mrs Lawrence | Preseli, Pembrokeshire. |
| Philip Hammond, Esquire | Runnymede and Weybridge. |
| Timothy Paul Loughton, Esquire | East Worthing and Shoreham. |
| Candice Kathleen Atherton | Falmouth and Camborne. |
| Shaun Anthony Woodward, Esquire | Witney. |
| James Andrew Plaskitt, Esquire | Warwick and Leamington. |
| Dr John Vincent Cable | Twickenham. |
| Brian Joseph Cotter, Esquire | Weston-Super-Mare. |
| Adrian Mark Sanders, Esquire | Torbay. |
| Sydney Norman John Rapson, Esquire | Portsmouth North. |
| David William St. John Heath, Esquire | Somerton and Frome. |
| Timothy William George Collins, Esquire | Westmoreland and Lonsdale. |
| William Ernest Rammell, Esquire | Harlow. |
| Mark Oaten, Esquire | Winchester. |
| Thomas Anthony Brake, Esquire | Carshalton and Wallington. |
| Fiona Margaret MacTaggart | Slough. |
| Ivor Keith Caplin, Esquire | Hove. |
| Christopher Richard Pond, Esquire | Gravesham. |
| Gillian Joanna Merron | Lincoln. |
| Kelvin Peter Hopkins, Esquire | Luton North. |
| Theresa Mary, Mrs May | Maidenhead. |
| Graham Brady, Esquire | Altrincham and Sale West. |
| Martin Philip Caton, Esquire | Gower. |
| John Simon Bercow, Esquire | Buckingham. |
| Stuart Bell, Esquire | Middlesbrough. |
| Right honourable Derek Foster | Bishop Auckland. |
| Nicolas John Gibb, Esquire | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. |
| Christopher Nigel Beard, Esquire | Bexleyheath and Crayford. |
| Stephen John Ladyman, Esquire | South Thanet. |
| Stephen Hepburn, Esquire | Jarrow. |
| Nicholas Francis St Aubyn, Esquire | Guildford. |
| Alan Patrick Vincent Whitehead, Esquire | Southampton, Test. |
| Daphne Barbara Follett | Stevenage. |
| Gisela Gschaider, Mrs Stuart | Birmingham, Edgbaston. |
| Brian David Jenkins, Esquire | Tamworth. |
| Patricia Hope Hewitt | Leicester West. |
| Jonathan Sayeed, Esquire | Mid Bedfordshire. |
| Brian Arthur Robert White, Esquire | North East Milton Keynes. |
| Nicholas Douglas Palmer, Esquire | Broxtowe. |
| Ivan John Henderson, Esquire | Harwich. |
| Paul Gordon Clark, Esquire | Gillingham. |
| Lawrence William Quinn, Esquire | Scarborough and Whitby. |
| Alan Arthur Johnson, Esquire | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle. |
| Hywel Rhodri Morgan, Esquire | Cardiff West. |
| Julie Morgan | Cardiff North. |
| Paul David Stinchcombe, Esquire | Wellingborough. |
| Stephen John Byers, Esquire | North Tyneside. |
| Charles Rodway Clarke, Esquire | Norwich South. |
| Claire Margaret Ward | Watford. |
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| Debra Ann Shipley | Stourbridge. |
| Michael David Wills, Esquire | North Swindon. |
| Gwynfor Mathews Prosser, Esquire | Dover. |
| Charlotte Atkins | Staffordshire Moorlands. |
| Eric Jack Pickles, Esquire | Brentwood and Ongar. |
| Barry Strachan Gardiner, Esquire | Brent North. |
| Iain Coleman, Esquire | Hammersmith and Fulham. |
| Right honourable Alan KennethMcKenzie Clark | Kensington and Chelsea. |
| Margaret Moran | Luton South. |
| Oona Tamsyn King | Bethnal Green and Bow. |
| Caroline Louise Flint | Don Valley. |
| Andrew Guy Tyrie, Esquire | Chichester. |
| Philip James Woolas, Esquire | Oldham East and Saddleworth |
| Stephen Twigg, Esquire | Enfield, Southgate. |
| Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve, Esquire | Beaconsfield. |
| David Roy Lidington, Esquire | Aylesbury. |
| David Anthony Crausby, Esquire | Bolton North East. |
| Philip Andrew Sawford, Esquire | Kettering. |
| Eileen, Mrs Gordon | Romford. |
| Andrew Love, Esquire | Edmonton. |
| Geraint Richard Davies, Esquire | Croydon Central. |
| Robert Graham Marshall-Andrews,Esquire | Medway. |
| David Lepper, Esquire | Brighton, Pavilion. |
| Dr John Reid | Hamilton North and Bellshill. |
| Right honourable Sir Peter Norman Fowler | Sutton Coldfield. |
| John Martin Linton, Esquire | Battersea |
| Paul William Barry Marsden, Esquire | Shrewsbury and Atcham. |
| David Laurie Ruffley, Esquire | Bury St. Edmunds. |
| Piers Rolf Garfield Merchant, Esquire | Beckenham. |
| Right honourable Andrew David Smith | Oxford East. |
| Anthony Joseph Lloyd, Esquire | Manchester Central. |
| Judith Ann Church | Dagenham. |
| John Eric Austin-Walker, Esquire | Erith and Thamesmead. |
| Norman John Baker, Esquire | Lewes. |
| Desmond Angus Swayne, Esquire | New Forest West. |
| Trevor Keith Hill, Esquire | Streatham. |
| Fiona Elizabeth Ann Jones | Newark. |
| Alun Edward Michael, Equire | Cardiff South and Penarth. |
| Joan Marie Ryan | Enfield North. |
| 2 | Adjournment,—Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Tuesday 13th May.—(Bridget Prentice.) |
And accordingly the House, having continued to sit till Twelve o'clock, adjourned till Tuesday 13th May.
[Adjourned at 12 noon.
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