House of Commons
Wednesday 18 December 2019
The House met at half-past Eleven o’clock
Prayers
[Mr Speaker in the Chair]
Members Sworn
I remind the House that I expect to be in the Chair today until 1.30 pm and return at 2 pm, until 4 pm, and then again at 4.30 pm to 5.45 pm, with a later session if necessary. If required, we will sit swearing in at 2 pm tomorrow. I invite the first Members elected prior to the current Parliament to take the oath and will make further announcements to invite Members first elected to the present Parliament. Will Members wishing to take their seats please come to the Table?
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
Eleanor Claire Reeves, for Lewisham West and Penge
Right honourable Sir Michael Penning, Hemel Hempstead
Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger, Bridgwater and West Somerset
Stephen James Metcalfe, South Basildon and East Thurrock
Kevin Paul Hollinrake , Thirsk and Malton
Richard Grosvenor Drax, South Dorset
Ben Everitt, Milton Keynes North
William Peter Wragg, Hazel Grove
Felicia Jane Beatrix Drummond, Meon Valley
Daniel Rayne Kruger, Devizes
Alun Craig Williams, Montgomeryshire
Scott Leslie Mann, North Cornwall
Christine Anne Jardine, Edinburgh West
Mark Rory Logan, Bolton North East
James Barry Daly, Bury North
Caroline Lucas, Brighton, Pavilion
Right honourable Tobias Martin Ellwood, Bournemouth East
James Roger Cartlidge, South Suffolk
Jamie Hume Stone, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Helen Elizabeth Hayes, Dulwich and West Norwood
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous, South West Bedfordshire
Rebecca Elizabeth Scott Harris, Castle Point
Jonathan Neil Reynolds, Stalybridge and Hyde
John Robert Cryer, Leyton and Wanstead
Gillian Keegan, Chichester
Martin John Vickers, Cleethorpes
Andrew John Stevenson, Carlisle
Daniel Leonard James Poulter, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
Michelle Emma May Elizabeth Donelan, Chippenham
Julian Carlton Knight, Solihull
Wera Benedicta Hobhouse, Bath
Diana Ruth Johnson, Kingston upon Hull North
Anthony Edward Timpson, Eddisbury
Andrew Campbell Bowie, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Natalie Cecilia Elphicke, Dover
David Melvyn Linden, Glasgow East
Gavin Andrew Stuart Newlands, Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Brendan O’Hara, Argyll and Bute
Andrew Egan Henderson Hendry, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Alan Brown, Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Douglas Chapman, Dunfermline and West Fife
Marion Fellows, Motherwell and Wishaw
Stewart Malcolm McDonald, Glasgow South
Hannah Mary Bardell, Livingston
Right honourable James Jacob Gilchrist Berry, Rossendale and Darwen
Matthew James Offord, Hendon
Jessica Rose Phillips, Birmingham, Yardley
Wesley Paul William Streeting, Ilford North
Huw William Merriman, Bexhill and Battle
Khalid Mahmood, Birmingham, Perry Barr
Alison McGovern, Wirral South
Lee Anderson, Ashfield
Christopher James Green, Bolton West
Trudy Lynne Harrison, Copeland
Caroline Elizabeth Johnson, Sleaford and North Hykeham
Sarah Jane Olney, Richmond Park
Daisy Cooper, St Albans
Wendy Anne Chamberlain, North East Fife
Christopher Murray Alexander Law, Dundee West
Peter Grant, Glenrothes
Giles Francis Watling, Clacton
Claire Aisling Hanna, Belfast South
Mark Andrew Pritchard, The Wrekin
Alan Mak, Havant
Nicola Jane Aiken, Cities of London and Westminster
Siobhan Kathleen Baillie, Stroud
Kirsty Ann Blackman, Aberdeen North
Alicia Alexandra Martha Kearns, Rutland and Melton
Ruth Rosamond Edwards, Rushcliffe
Joy Inboden Morrissey, Beaconsfield
Luke Morgan Evans, Bosworth
Julie Marson, Hertford and Stortford
Andrew Francis Slaughter, Hammersmith
Gareth Alan Johnson, Dartford
Jane Fiona Catherine Stevenson, Wolverhampton North East
Christopher Charles Stephens, Glasgow South West
Alexander David Sobel, Leeds North West
Zarah Sultana, Coventry South
Apsana Begum, Poplar and Limehouse
Thomas Sheppard, Edinburgh East
Jerome Patrick Burke Mayhew, Broadland
James Oliver Wild, North West Norfolk
Gareth Mark Davies, Grantham and Stamford
Stuart Paul Anderson, Wolverhampton South West
Felicity Christiana Buchan, Kensington
James Michael Davies, Vale of Clwyd
Caroline Ansell, Eastbourne
Jamie Hamilton Wallis, Bridgend
Sarah Elizabeth Atherton, Wrexham
Virginia Ann Crosbie, Ynys Môn
Miriam Joy Cates, Penistone and Stocksbridge
Duncan Charles Baker, North Norfolk
Brendan Clarke-Smith, Bassetlaw
Kate Elizabeth Griffiths, Burton
Suzanne Webb, Stourbridge
Shaun Stephen Bailey, West Bromwich West
Gary William Sambrook, Birmingham, Northfield
Deidre Leanne Brock, Edinburgh North and Leith
Robert Joseph Roberts, Delyn
Sir Bernard Christison Jenkin, Harwich and North Essex
Munira Wilson, Twickenham
Joanna Catherine Cherry, Edinburgh South West
Grahame Mark Morris, Easington
Anthony Howe Browne, South Cambridgeshire
Cherilyn Mackrory, Truro and Falmouth
Mhairi Black, Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Angela Crawley, Lanark and Hamilton East
Elizabeth Anne McLaughlin, Glasgow North East
Laura Rose Farris, Newbury
Ian Levy, Blyth Valley
Katherine Fletcher, South Ribble
Alexander James Jorden Norris, Nottingham North
Sara Alice Britcliffe, Hyndburn
Antony Higginbotham, Burnley
Claire Coryl Julia Coutinho, East Surrey
Darren George Henry, Broxtowe
Gareth Thomas, Harrow West
Rupa Asha Huq, Ealing Central and Acton
Michael Alex Burghart, Brentwood and Ongar
Thomas Georg John Tugendhat, Tonbridge and Malling
Robert Butler, Aylesbury
David Timothy Simmonds, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
Rachel Helen Maclean, Redditch
Matthew Alexander Vickers, Stockton South
Robert Peter Moore, Keighley
Stephanie Louise Peacock, Barnsley East
Louise Margaret Haigh, Sheffield, Heeley
Holly Mumby-Croft, Scunthorpe
Lia Nici-Townend, Great Grimsby
Right honourable Yvette Cooper, Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
Simon James Jupp, East Devon
Thomas Patrick Hunt, Ipswich
Abena Oppong-Asare, Erith and Thamesmead
James Stewart Murray , Ealing North
Marcus John Hudson Fysh, Yeovil
Edmund Francis Hughes, Walsall North
Selaine Rachel Saxby, North Devon
Mohammad Saqib Bhatti, Meriden
Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman, Fareham
Andrew Theakstone Percy, Brigg and Goole
Bellavia Janet Ribeiro-Addy, Streatham
Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, Hampstead and Kilburn
The sitting is suspended until 2 pm. The bells will ring five minutes before the sitting resumes. Thanks, everybody.
Sitting suspended.
On resuming—
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
Mary Kelly Foy, for City of Durham
Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan, Tooting
Michael Whitley, Birkenhead
Paula Barker, Liverpool, Wavertree
Kim Marie Johnson, Liverpool, Riverside
Navendu Prabhat Mishra, Stockport
Carla Rebecca Lockhart, Upper Bann
Ian Robert Byrne, Liverpool, West Derby
Bethan Winter, Cynon Valley
John Luther Mercer, Plymouth, Moor View
Sarah Elizabeth Dines, Derbyshire Dales
Steven Bonnar, Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Allan Hopkins Dorans, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Alyn Edward Smith, Stirling
David Michael Doogan, Angus
Kenny Wright MacAskill, East Lothian
Richard Gordon Thomson, Gordon
Amy Callaghan, East Dunbartonshire
Philippa Whitford, Central Ayrshire
Alexandra Mary Davies-Jones, Pontypridd
Rachel Louise Hopkins, Luton South
Stephen Anthony Farry, North Down
Sarah Deborah Champion, Rotherham
Scott Lloyd Benton, Blackpool South
Right honourable Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw, Exeter
Charles George Eustice, Camborne and Redruth
Michael Jon Wood, Dudley South
Helen Grant, Maidstone and The Weald
Katharine Helen Osborne, Jarrow
Gagan Mohindra, South West Hertfordshire
Nadia Edith Whittome, Nottingham East
Nigel John Mills, Amber Valley
James Neale Hanvey, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Neil John O’Brien, Harborough
Lucy Allan, Telford
Jeffrey Smith, Manchester, Withington
Taiwo Owatemi, Coventry North West
Rosemary Clare Duffield, Canterbury
James Sunderland, Bracknell
John Charles Baron, Basildon and Billericay
Fleur Anderson, Putney
Neil Coyle, Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Florence Eshalomi, Vauxhall
Sarah Mei Li Owen, Luton North
Order. The sitting is suspended until 3.40 pm. The bells will ring five minutes before the sitting is resumed. Thanks, everybody.
Sitting suspended.
On resuming—
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
Andrew Griffith, for Arundel and South Downs
Claudia Naomi Webbe, Leicester East
David Mervyn Johnston, Wantage
Sally-Ann Hart, Hastings and Rye
Angela Joy Richardson, Guildford
Sir Christopher Robert Chope, Christchurch
Olivia Frances Blake, Sheffield, Hallam
Right honourable Melvyn John Stride, Central Devon
Andrew John Carter, Warrington South
Charlotte Louise Nichols, Warrington North
Right honourable and learned Keir Starmer, Holborn and St Pancras
Alexander Paul Thomas Stafford, Rother Valley
David John Warburton, Somerton and Frome
Simon Richard James Fell, Barrow and Furness
Lee Benjamin Rowley, North East Derbyshire
Laura Trott, Sevenoaks
Layla Michelle Moran, Oxford West and Abingdon
Theodora Roosevelt Clarke, Stafford
Samuel Peter Tarry, Ilford South
Mathew Richard Allen Rodda, Reading East
Neil Peter Hammerton Hudson, Penrith and The Border
Richard Michael Bacon, South Norfolk
Rushanara Ali, Bethnal Green and Bow
Elliot Colburn, Carshalton and Wallington
The sitting is suspended until 4.30 pm. The bells will ring five minutes before the sitting resumes. Thanks, everybody.
Sitting suspended.
On resuming—
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
Mark Simon Eastwood, for Dewsbury
Jonathan George Caladine Lord, Woking
John MacKenzie Nicolson, Ochil and South Perthshire
Angela Rayner, Ashton-under-Lyne
Adjournment
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Nigel Huddleston.)
House adjourned.