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House of Commons
Thursday 12 May 2005
The House having met at Eleven o'clock, and the Speaker-Elect having taken the Chair;
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners;
The House went; and, having returned—
Election of Speaker
Mr. Speaker: I have to report that this House has been in the House of Lords where Her Majesty, by Her Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself for the Office of Speaker. 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 shall require, and that the most favourable construction shall be put upon all 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 acknowledgement and grateful thanks for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the Chair.
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Members Sworn
Mr. 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, first doing so myself.
Thereupon Mr. Speaker first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.
Mr. Speaker: Before Members take the Oath or affirm, I remind the House that the support provided to Members by way of allowances for staff, travel and other purposes will not be available to Members who have not taken the Oath or affirmed before the date of the Queen's Speech, next Tuesday. The only exception will be Members who, before that date, have sent me a letter informing me that, for health or other good reasons, they cannot attend to take their seats immediately after the election but desire to do so at the earliest possible moment.
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 members of the Cabinet; then members of the shadow Cabinet; then all Privy Councillors not included in those two groups, wherever they may be sitting; and then other Ministers. Thereafter I shall call other hon. Members according to seniority determined on the basis of the Parliament of first entry or, for those with broken service, that of most recent entry.
The first batch will be those elected in or before the 1987 Parliament. Thereafter I shall proceed to call Members to take the Oath or affirm by successive Parliaments. I hope that, by late this afternoon, we will have made sufficient progress to enable all Members to swear in who wish to do so. The House will sit again on Monday at 2.30, when I shall call Members according to seniority where possible, on the basis of the Parliament of first entry or, for those with broken service, that of most recent entry.
Those arrangements are very similar to those adopted at the start of the previous Parliaments in 1997 and 2001, and they follow the recommendations of the Procedure Committee. I hope that Members will come forward in an orderly manner. I remind Members that the taking of the Oath, as a proceeding of the House, is recorded by the television cameras and that anything said or done by Members may appear on television or be picked up by microphones. For the same reason, I will not hesitate to intervene if I consider that any Member is behaving inappropriately or using the occasion for an inappropriate purpose. Let us now begin.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
Right honourable Alan John Williams, for Swansea West
Right honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Sedgefield
Right honourable John Leslie Prescott, Kingston upon Hull East
Right honourable James Gordon Brown, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
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Right honourable John Whitaker Straw, Blackburn
Right honourable David Blunkett, Sheffield, Brightside
Right honourable Margaret Mary Beckett, Derby South
Right honourable Patricia Hope Hewitt, Leicester West
Right honourable Alistair Maclean Darling, Edinburgh South West
Right honourable Alan Arthur Johnson, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
Right honourable Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Dulwich and West Norwood
Right honourable Charles Rodway Clarke, Norwich South
Right honourable Hilary James Benn, Leeds Central
Right honourable Peter Gerald Hain, Neath
Right honourable John Reid, Airdrie and Shotts
Right honourable Ruth Maria Kelly, Bolton West
Right honourable David Wright Miliband, South Shields
Right honourable Desmond Henry Browne, Kilmarnock and Loudon
Douglas Garven Alexander, Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Right honourable Ian McCartney, Makerfield
Right honourable Geoffrey William Hoon, Ashfield
Right honourable Hilary Jane Armstrong, North West Durham
Right honourable Michael Howard, Folkestone and Hythe
Right honourable David Michael Davis, Haltemprice and Howden
Right honourable Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Horsham
Christopher Stephen Grayling, Epsom and Ewell
Oliver Heald, North East Hertfordshire
Right honourable Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, Kensington and Chelsea
David William Donald Cameron, Witney
Right honourable Oliver Letwin, West Dorset
Right honourable Theresa Mary May, Maidenhead
Caroline Alice Spelman, Meriden
Andrew David Lansley, South Cambridgeshire
David Roy Lidington, Aylesbury
George Gideon Oliver Osborne, Tatton
Alan James Carter Duncan, Rutland and Melton
Right honourable David John Maclean, Penrith and The Border
Right honourable Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman, Manchester, Gorton
Right honourable Dawn Primarolo, Bristol South
Right honourable Kenneth Harry Clarke, Rushcliffe
Right honourable Charles Peter Kennedy, Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Right honourable Gavin Steel Strang, Edinburgh East
Right honourable Alan James Beith, Berwick-upon- Tweed
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Right honourable Robin Cook, Livingston
The Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, North Antrim
Right honourable Thomas Clarke, Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Right honourable David Maurice Curry, Skipton and Ripon
Right honourable John McFall, West Dunbartonshire
Right honourable Andrew James Mackay, Bracknell
Right honourable Frank Gordon Dobson, Holborn and St Pancras
Right honourable Eric Forth, Bromley and Chislehurst
Right honourable Frank Field, Birkenhead
Right honourable John Michael Jack, Fylde
Right honourable Jacqueline Jill Smith, Redditch
Right honourable Beverley June Hughes, Stretford and Urmston
Right honourable Sir Walter Menzies Campbell, North East Fife
Right honourable Alun Edward Michael, Cardiff South and Penarth
Right honourable Douglas Martin Hogg, Sleaford and North Hykeham
Right honourable Paul Peter Murphy, Torfaen
Right honourable David Philip Heathcoat-Amory, Wells
Right honourable John Dominic Battle, Leeds West
Right honourable Sir John Paul Stanley, Tonbridge and Malling
Right honourable Robert William Ainsworth, Coventry North East
Right honourable Sir Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Saffron Walden
Sir John Valentine Butterfill, Bournemouth West
Right honourable Kevin John Barron, Rother Valley
Sir Michael Nicholson Lord, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
George Edward Howarth, Knowsley North and Sefton East
Right honourable John Francis Spellar, Warley
Right honourable Ann Clwyd, Cynon Valley
Elliot Anthony Morley, Scunthorpe
Right honourable Richard George Caborn, Sheffield Central
Gerald Sutcliffe, Bradford South
Right honourable Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy, Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Stephen John Ladyman, South Thanet
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart, Slough
David Julian Winnick, Walsall North
James Whiteside Gray, North Wiltshire
David Gordon Clelland, Tyne Bridge
Peter Kilfoyle, Liverpool, Walton
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Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd, Aldridge- Brownhills
Shaun Anthony Woodward, St Helens South
Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw, Exeter
Peter David Robinson, Belfast East
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, Islington North
Kenneth Purchase, Wolverhampton North East
Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo, South Suffolk
Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody, Crewe and Nantwich
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, Louth and Horncastle
Anthony Joseph Lloyd, Manchester Central
William Nigel Paul Cash, Stone
Eric Evlyn Illsley, Barnsley Central
James Dolan Cunningham, Coventry South
Patrick Allen McLoughlin, West Derbyshire
Gillian Joanna Merron, Lincoln
James Fitzpatrick, Poplar and Canning Town
Frank Roy, Motherwell and Wishaw
Simon Henry Ward Hughes, North Southwark and Bermondsey
Malcolm Hunt Wicks, Croydon North
Diana Julie Abbott, Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Terrence Henry Rooney, Bradford North
Kevin Denis Brennan, Cardiff West
Martyn David Jones, Clwyd South
Piara Singh Khabra, Ealing Southall
Right honourable John Yorke Denham, Southampton, Itchen
John Scott Cummings, Easington
Right honourable Harriet Harman, Camberwell and Peckham
Eric Anthony Martlew, Carlisle
Bridget Theresa Prentice, Lewisham East
Karen Patricia Buck, Regent's Park and Kensington North
Phillip James Woolas, Oldham East and Saddleworth
Caroline Louise Flint, Don Valley
Joan Marie Ryan, Enfield North
Sir Michael William Hardy Spicer, West Worcestershire
Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton, Macclesfield
Jane Ann, Lady Winterton, Congleton
Roger James Gale, North Thanet
David Anthony Andrew Amess, Southend West
Paul Phillip Flynn, Newport West
Michael Clapham, Barnsley West and Penistone
John Eric Austin, Erith and Thamesmead
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Richard Haines Burden, Birmingham, Northfield
Rachel Anne Squire, Dunfermline and West Fife
Andrew Peter Miller, Ellesmere Port and Neston
Edward Henry Garnier, Harborough
Eric Jack Pickles, Brentwood and Ongar
Ian Phares Pearson, Dudley South
Nigel Martin Evans, Ribble Valley
Robert Nelson Wareing, Liverpool, West Derby
Ian Arthur Cawsey, Brigg and Goole
Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway, Croydon South
Graham William Allen, Nottingham North
Sylvia Lloyd Heal, Halesowen and Rowley Regis
Right honourable Alan Milburn, Darlington
Timothy Eric Boswell, Daventry
James Edward Thornton Paice, South East Cambridgeshire
Thomas Anthony Cunningham, Workington
Michael Connarty, Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Anne Caroline Ballingall McIntosh, Vale of York
David Leonard Watts, St Helens North
Parmjit Singh Dhanda, Gloucester
Robert Andrew Raymond Syms, Poole
Nicholas Richard Ainger, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
Maria Eagle, Liverpool, Garston
George Edward Mudie, Leeds East
Michael John Gapes, Ilford South
Matthew Owen John Taylor, Truro and St Austell
Angela Frances Browning, Tiverton and Honiton
Alex Elliot Anderson Salmond, Banff and Buchan
Elfyn Llwyd, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
Glenda May Jackson, Hampstead and Highgate
Peter James Luff, Mid Worcestershire
Peter James Bottomley, Worthing West
Michael John Foster, Worcester
Anthony David Wright, Great Yarmouth
James Dobbin, Heywood and Middleton
David Anthony Crausby, Bolton North East
Geraldine Smith, Morecambe and Lunesdale
Robert Laxton, Derby North
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Mohammad Sarwar, Glasgow Central
Barry Strachan Gardiner, Brent North
Margaret Patricia Munn, Sheffield, Heeley
Janet Elizabeth Ann Dean, Burton
Alexander John Randall, Uxbridge
Clive James Charles Betts, Sheffield, Attercliffe
Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Bath
Gregory Lloyd Campbell, East Londonderry
Michael Thomas Hall, Weaver Vale
Peter Michael Ainsworth, East Surrey
Gary Nicholas Streeter, South West Devon
The Reverend Robert Thomas William McCrea, South Antrim
Ashok Kumar, Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
Neil Francis Gerrard, Walthamstow
Joan Mary Ruddock, Lewisham, Deptford
Bernard Christison Jenkin, North Essex
William James Clappison, Hertsmere
Anthony Wayland Wright, Cannock Chase
Barry John Sheerman, Huddersfield
Helen Mary Jones, Warrington North
Jovanka Joan Humble, Blackpool North and Fleetwood
Colin Edward Breed, South East Cornwall
Phyllis Margaret Starkey, Milton Keynes South West
Jacqueline Anne Harkness Lait, Beckenham
Graham Stuart Brady, Altrincham and Sale West
Jeffrey Ennis, Barnsley East and Mexborough
Right honourable James Norwich Arbuthnot, North East Hampshire
Lynne Mary Jones, Birmingham, Selly Oak
Kali Carol Jean Mountford, Colne Valley
Nicolas John Gibb, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
David Michael Chaytor, Bury North
Andrew Hartley Dismore, Hendon
Brian Iddon, Bolton South East
Andrew John Reed, Loughborough
David William St John Heath, Somerton and Frome
Laurence Anthony Robertson, Tewkesbury
Rudolf Jan Vis, Finchley and Golders Green
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John Robertson, Glasgow North West
George Philip Willis, Harrogate and Knaresborough
Colin Robert Challen, Morley and Rothwell
Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, Lagan Valley
Adrian Edward Bailey, West Bromwich West
Nigel Christopher Waterson, Eastbourne
Fraser Kemp, Houghton and Washington East
James Murphy, East Renfrewshire
Derek Leslie Conway, Old Bexley and Sidcup
Mark Fraser Williams, Ceredigion
James Keith Chapman, Wirral South
Marek Jerzy Lazarowicz, Edinburgh North and Leith
David Stewart Havard, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Paul Kenneth Burstow, Sutton and Cheam
Helen Mary Southworth, Warrington South
Christine Margaret Russell, City of Chester
Peter Wishart, Perth and North Perthshire
Nigel Alexander Dodds, Belfast North
Mark Wainwright Todd, South Derbyshire
John Cradock Maples, Stratford-on-Avon
James Sheridan, Paisley and Renfrewshire North
William David Wiggin, Leominster
Michael Thomas Hancock, Portsmouth South
Richard Thomas Taylor, Wyre Forest
Right honourable Nicholas Hugh Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
Gordon Marsden, Blackpool South
David Leslie Taylor, North West Leicestershire
Martin Charles Horwood, Cheltenham
Right honourable Ann Noreen Widdecombe, Maidstone and The Weald
John Henry Hayes, South Holland and The Deepings
Andrew Robert George Robathan, Blaby
Charles Ashley Rupert Walker, Broxbourne
David Lepper, Brighton, Pavilion
Keith Robert Simpson, Mid Norfolk
Thomas Anthony Brake, Carshalton and Wallington
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve, Beaconsfield
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Ian Richard Liddell-Grainger, Bridgwater
Christine McCafferty, Calder Valley
Fabian Hamilton, Leeds North East
Timothy Paul Loughton, East Worthing and Shoreham
Kelvin Peter Hopkins, Luton North
Christopher David Mole, Ipswich
Stephen Pelham Pound, Ealing North
Robert Edward Russell, Colchester
Gisela Gschaider Stuart, Birmingham, Edgbaston
Andrew William Murrison, Westbury
Humfrey Jonathan Malins, Woking
Kevan David Jones, North Durham
Desmond Stanley Turner, Brighton, Kemptown
John William Patrick Smith, Vale of Glamorgan
Paul Gerard Goggins, Wythenshawe and Sale East
Dari Jean Taylor, Stockton South
Howard Geoffrey Alvan Stoate, Dartford
Jonathan Rowland Shaw, Chatham and Aylesford
Jonathan Simon Djanogly, Huntingdon
Annette Lesley Brooke, Mid Dorset and North Poole
Sandra Osborne, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Michael Kevin Moore, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Mark Richard Tami, Alyn and Deeside
Andrew John Turner, Isle of Wight
Sarah Louise Teather, Brent East
Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan, Chesham and Amersham
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Cotswold
Sir Alexander Paul Beresford, Mole Valley
Adam Price, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Henry Campbell Bellingham, North West Norfolk
Mark Christopher Field, Cities of London and Westminster
John William MacDougall, Glenrothes
Richard Younger-Ross, Teignbridge
David Alan Heyes, Ashton under Lyne
Anne McGuire, Stirling
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Robert Howard Marris, Wolverhampton South West
Christopher Paul Farrelly, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Mark Phillip Hendrick, Preston
James Gerald Douglas Howarth, Aldershot
Sir Stuart Bell, Middlesbrough
Angela Eileen Watkinson, Upminster
Andrew Stuart Mackinlay, Thurrock
Edward Jonathon Davey, Kingston and Surbiton
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous, South West Bedfordshire
Ifor Huw Irranca-Davies, Ogmore
Richard Michael Bacon, South Norfolk
Gwynfor Mathews Prosser, Dover
Sally Curtis Keeble, Northampton North
Mark Prisk, Hertford and Stortford
Julian William Hendy Brazier, Canterbury
Right honourable Wyvill Richard Nicolls Raynsford, Greenwich and Woolwich
Ian Graham Davidson, Glasgow South West
Siân Catherine James, Swansea East
Tobias Martin Ellwood, Bournemouth East
Jeremy Richard Browne, Taunton
Daniel John Rogerson, North Cornwall
Nicholas William Peter Clegg, Sheffield, Hallam
Timothy James Farron, Westmorland and Lonsdale
Anne Frances Milton, Guildford
Ann Lloyd Keen, Brentford and Isleworth
James Andrew Plaskitt, Warwick and Leamington
Katy Clark, North Ayrshire and Arran
David Anthony Evennett, Bexleyheath and Crayford
Daniel Grian Alexander, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Stephen Roy Williams, Bristol West
Julia Anne Goldsworthy, Falmouth and Camborne
Alison Jane Seabeck, Plymouth, Devonport
Daphne Barbara Follett, Stevenage
Grant V Shapps, Welwyn Hatfield
Michael Alan Penning, Hemel Hempstead
Nicholas Richard Hurd, Ruislip-Northwood
Kitty Ussher, Burnley
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Lynda Ellen Waltho, Stourbridge
Daniel Robert Kawczynski, Shrewsbury and Atcham
Jeremy Paul Wright, Rugby and Kenilworth
Brian Arthur Roland Binley, Northampton South
James Philip Duddridge, Rochford and Southend East
James Peter Brokenshire, Hornchurch
Eleanor Fulton Laing, Epping Forest
Philip Thomas Hollobone, Kettering
Theresa Anne Villiers, Chipping Barnet
Christopher John Mullin, Sunderland South
Peter William Bone, Wellingborough
Andrew Mcculloch Love, Edmonton
David Michael Gauke, South West Hertfordshire
Nicholas Le Quesne Herbert, Arundel and South Downs
Mark James Harper, Forest of Dean
David Gordon Mundell, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Christopher Murray Paul Huhne, Eastleigh
Christopher James Fraser, South West Norfolk
John David Penrose, Weston-Super-Mare
Mark Andrew Pritchard, The Wrekin
Maria Frances Lewis Miller, Basingstoke
Julian Murray Lewis, New Forest East
Shailesh Lakhman Vara, North West Cambridgeshire
Gareth Richard Thomas, Harrow West
Richard Henry Ronald Benyon, Newbury
John Douglas Wilson Carswell, Harwich
John Quentin Davies, Grantham and Stamford
John Mark Lancaster, North East Milton Keynes
Gregory William Hands, Hammersmith and Fulham
Right honourable Keith Trevor Hill, Streatham
Right honourable Bruce Thomas George, Walsall South
Evan Leslie Harris, Oxford West and Abingdon
Jennifer Nancy Willott, Cardiff Central
Andrew Richard Rosindell, Romford
James Patrick Dowd, Lewisham West
Janet Anderson, Rossendale and Darwen
Edward Michael Balls, Normanton
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Robert Ben Lobban Wallace, Lancaster and Wyre
Jeremy Hunt, South West Surrey
David Thomas Charles Davies, Monmouth
Michael Jabez Foster, Hastings and Rye
Stephen William Hammond, Wimbledon
Jo Swinson, East Dunbartonshire
Sir Peter Alfred Soulsby, Leicester South
Edward Henry Butler Vaizey, Wantage
Andrew John Gwynne, Denton and Reddish
Stewart James Jackson, Peterborough
Stephen Crabb, Preseli Pembrokeshire
Anne Christine Snelgrove, South Swindon
Alan Patrick Vincent Whitehead, Southampton, Test
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh, Gainsborough
Graham Eric Stringer, Manchester, Blackley
Gregory Thomas Mulholland, Leeds North West
Right honourable Stephen John Byers, North Tyneside
Alasdair McDonnell, Belfast South
Susan Veronica Kramer, Richmond Park
James MacKay Cousins, Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Linda Gilroy, Plymouth, Sutton
Sarah Louise McCarthy-Fry, Portsmouth North
Michael Cathel Fallon, Sevenoaks
Siobhain Ann McDonagh, Mitcham and Morden
Helen Catherine Goodman, Bishop Auckland
Patrick Bosco McFadden, Wolverhampton South East
Right honourable Margaret Eve Hodge, Barking
John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, Maldon and East Chelmsford
Meg Hillier, Hackney South and Shoreditch
William Ernest Rammell, Harlow
John Vincent Cable, Twickenham
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Monday 16 May at half-past Two o'clock.—[Joan Ryan.]
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