Tuesday 13 May 1997

The House met at half-past Two o'clock

[MADAM SPEAKER in the Chair]

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:

• Anne Begg, Aberdeen, South
• Right honourable John Morris, QC, Aberavon
• David Gordon Clelland, esquire, Tyne Bridge
• Right honourable Michael Ray Dibden Heseltine, Henley
• Joseph Kevin McNamara, esquire, Kingston upon Hull, North
• Jeffrey William Rooker, esquire, Birmingham, Perry Barr
• Joseph William Ashton, esquire, Bassetlaw
• Allan Ralph Rogers, esquire, Rhondda
• George Edward Howarth, esquire, Knowsley, North and Sefton, East
• Peter Benjamin Mandelson, esquire, Hartlepool
• Right honourable Sir Nicholas Walter Lyell, QC, North-East Bedfordshire
• Right honourable David John Denzil Davies, Llanelli
• Angela Eagle, Wallasey
• Edward Rowlands, esquire, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• Michael John Mates, esquire, East Hampshire
• Anthony David Steen, esquire, Totnes
• Dr. Michael Clark, Rayleigh
• Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, esquire, Islington, North
• Menzies Campbell, esquire, CBE, QC, North-East Fife
• Dr. Lewis George Moonie, Kirkcaldy
• Diane Julie Abbott, Hackney, North and Stoke Newington
• David Charles Jamieson, esquire, Plymouth, Devonport
• Helen Lawrie, Mrs. Liddell, Airdrie and Shotts
• Hilary Jane Armstrong, North-West Durham
• Ian Colin Taylor, esquire, MBE, Esher and Walton
• David Wilshire, esquire, Spelthorne
• Edward O'Hara, esquire, Knowsley, South
• Brian Harold Donohoe, esquire, Cunninghame, South
• Janet, Mrs. Anderson, Rossendale and Darwen
• Robert John Blizzard, esquire, Waveney
• Andrew Stuart Mackinlay, esquire, Thurrock
• Kevin John Barron, esquire, Rother Valley
• Llinos, Mrs. Golding, Newcastle-under-Lyme
• Tony McWalter, esquire, Hemel Hempstead
• Terence Henry Rooney, esquire, Bradford. North
• Christine McCafferty, Calder Valley
• Mohammad Sarwar, esquire, Glasgow, Govan
• Robert Laxton, esquire, Derby, North
• Seamus Mallon, esquire, Newry and Armagh
• Edward Kevin McGrady, esquire, South Down
• Dr. Alan Wynne Williams, Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr
• Nigel Christopher Waterson, esquire, Eastbourne
• Andrew John Bernard Rowe, esquire, Faversham and Mid-Kent
• John Ernest Townend, esquire, East Yorkshire
• Paul Anthony Truswell, esquire, Pudsey
• John Timothy Grogan, esquire, Selby
• Dr. Liam Fox, Woodspring
• Christopher Michael Leslie, esquire, Shipley
• Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo, esquire, South Suffolk
• David James Christian Faber, esquire, Westbury
• William Nigel Paul Cash, esquire, Stone
• Fabian Hamilton, esquire, Leeds, North-East
• Kenneth Robert Livingstone, esquire, Brent, East
• Marsha Singh, esquire, Bradford, West
• Colin Pickthall, esquire, West Lancashire
• Richard Beecroft Allan, esquire, Sheffield, Hallam
• Kerry Patrick Pollard, esquire, St. Albans
• Caroline Alice, Mrs. Spelman, Meriden
• James Gerald Douglas Howarth, esquire, Aldershot
• Humfrey Jonathon Malins, esquire, Woking
• John Robert Cryer, esquire, Hornchurch
• Michael Cathel Fallon, esquire, Sevenoaks
• Michael Roy Wood, esquire, Batley and Spen
• James Charles Cann, esquire, Ipswich
• George Philip Willis, esquire, Harrogate and Knaresborough
• Gerald Edward Bermingham, esquire, St. Helens, South
• Colin Edward Breed, esquire, South-East Cornwall
• Damian Howard Green, esquire, Ashford
• James Whiteside Gray, esquire, North Wiltshire
• Wyvill Richard Nicholls Raynsford, esquire, Greenwich and Woolwich
• Anthony Brian Baldry, esquire, Banbury
• Dr. Evan Harris, Oxford, West and Abingdon
• Claire Curtis-Tansley, Crosby
• George Turner, esquire, North-West Norfolk
• Cynog Glyndwr Dafis, esquire, Ceredigion

• Right honourable Michael Hugh Meacher, Oldham, West and Royton
• Christopher Shaun Ruane, esquire, Vale of Clwyd
• Alan Campbell, esquire, Tynemouth
• John Patrick Aubone Burnett, esquire, Torridge and West Devon
• Steven John Webb, esquire, Northavon
• Ashok Kumar, esquire, Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East
• Maria Eagle, Liverpool, Garston
• Rosalie Winterton, Doncaster, Central
• Kali Carol Jean Mountford, Colne Valley
• Brian Iddon, esquire, Bolton, South-East
• Gareth Thomas, esquire, Clwyd, West
• Ivan Lewis, esquire, Bury, South
• Gordon Marsden, esquire, Blackpool, South
• Alan Keen, esquire, Feltham and Heston
• David Neil Kidney, esquire, Stafford
• Dr. Ian Gibson, Norwich, North
• Geraldine Smith, Morecambe and Lunesdale
• Michael Kevin Moore, esquire, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
• Jacqueline Margaret, Mrs. Ballard, Taunton
• Sir Robert Hill Smith, baronet, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• Teresa Jane Kingham, Gloucester
• Diana Mary Organ, Forest of Dean
• Anthony David Wright, esquire, Great Yarmouth
• Angela Evans Smith, Basildon
• Clive Stanley Efford, esquire, Eltham
• David Elliott Drew, esquire, Stroud
• Roger Mark Casale, esquire, Wimbledon
• Helen Rosemary Brinton, Peterborough
• Andrew King, esquire, Rugby and Kenilworth
• Betty Helena, Mrs. Williams, Conwy
• Henry Baird McLeish, esquire, Central Fife
• Constance Ann, Mrs. Cryer, Keighley
• Dawn Primarolo, Bristol, South
• Stephen Hesford, esquire, Wirral, West
• Michael Jabez Foster, esquire, Hastings and Rye
• Michael John Foster, esquire, Worcester
• Janet Elizabeth Ann Dean, Burton
• Michael Thomas Hall, esquire, Weaver Vale
• Geoffrey Robinson, esquire, Coventry, North-West
• Karen Patricia Buck, Regent's Park and Kensington, North
• Peter Charles Stephen Bradley, esquire, The Wrekin
• Stephen James McCabe, esquire, Birmingham, Hall Green
• James Dobbin, esquire, Heywood and Middleton
• Graham Eric Stringer, esquire, Manchester, Blackley
• Keith Ernest Darvill, esquire, Upminster
• Patrick Hall, esquire, Bedford
• Derek Murray Wyatt, esquire, Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• Alan Arthur Hurst, esquire, Braintree

• Andrew Henry George, esquire, St. Ives
• John Ramsay Swinney, esquire, North Tayside
• Alastair Neil Morgan, esquire, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
• Barry John Sheerman, esquire, Huddersfield
• Mark Fisher, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, Central
• Eric Lionel Clarke, esquire, Midlothian
• John Henry Hayes, esquire, South Holland and The Deepings
• David Leslie Taylor, esquire, North-West Leicestershire
• Andrew John Reed, esquire, Loughborough
• Dari Jean Taylor, Stockton, South
• Philip Ian Hope, esquire, Corby
• David Leonard Watts, esquire, St. Helens, North
• Joseph Edward Benton, esquire, Bootle
• Helen Mary Southworth, Warrington, South
• Martin Bell, esquire, Tatton
• Nigel David Jones, esquire, Cheltenham
• Oliver Letwin, esquire, West Dorset
• Peter Temple-Morris, esquire, Leominster
• Elizabeth Marion Blackman, Erewash
• Laura Jean, Mrs. Moffatt, Crawley
• John Yorke Denham, esquire, Southampton, Itchen
• Julia Kate Drown, South Swindon
• Yvette Cooper, Pontefract and Castleford
• John William Patrick Smith, esquire, Vale of Glamorgan
• Michael John Gapes, esquire, Ilford, South
• David Gifford Leathes Prior, esquire, commonly called the honourable David Gifford Leathes Prior, North Norfolk
• Nigel Griffiths, esquire, Edinburgh, South
• Jonathan Rowland Shaw, esquire, Chatham and Aylesford
• Vernon Rodney Coaker, esquire, Gedling
• James Murphy, esquire, Eastwood
• David John Stewart, esquire, Inverness, East, Nairn and Lochaber
• Sandra Currie Osborne, Ayr
• Harry Michael Cohen, esquire, Leyton and Wanstead
• Russell Leslie Brown, esquire, Dumfries
• Malcolm Kemp Savidge, esquire, Aberdeen, North
• Dr. Peter Brand, Isle of Wight
• Robert Edward Russell, esquire, Colchester
• Peter Charles Snape, esquire, West Bromwich, East
• Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt, esquire, Reigate
• Elfyn Llwyd, esquire, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
• Tom Levitt, esquire, High Peak
• Desmond Browne, esquire, Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• Lynda Margaret Clark, QC, Edinburgh, Pentlands
• Rosemary McKenna, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
• Andrew Robert George Robathan, esquire, Blaby
• Right honourable David Philip Heathcoat-Amory, Wells
• Archibald John Norman, esquire, Tunbridge Wells
• David Stanley Borrow, esquire, South Ribble

• Robert John Walter, esquire, North Dorset
• Sally Curtis Keeble, Northampton, North
• George Galloway, esquire, Glasgow, Kelvin
• Jane Patricia Griffiths, Reading, East
• Martin John Salter, esquire, Reading, West
• Julie Kirkbride, Bromsgrove
• Valerie Davey, Bristol, West
• John Derek Twigg, esquire, Halton
• Dennis Turner, esquire, Wolverhampton, South-East
• Kenneth Purchase, esquire, Wolverhampton, North-East
• Bowen Wells, esquire, Hertford and Stortford
• Anthony Louis Banks, esquire, West Ham
• Siobhain Ann McDonagh, Mitcham and Morden
• Right honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell, Mrs. Bottomley, South-West Surrey
• George Edward Mudie, esquire, Leeds, East
• Alan James Carter Duncan, esquire, Rutland and Melton
• Christopher Robert Chope, esquire, Christchurch

4.3 pm

Sitting suspended.

4.30 pm

On resuming— Richard George Caborn, esquire, Sheffield, Central

• Peter John Viggers, esquire, Gosport
• David Lindsay Willetts, esquire, Havant
• Shona Mclsaac, Cleethorpes
• Ruth Maria Kelly, Bolton, West
• Frank Roy, esquire, Motherwell and Wishaw
• Ross Frederick Cranston, esquire, Dudley, North
• David Michael Chaytor, esquire, Bury, North
• Anne, Mrs. McGuire, Stirling

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till tomorrow at twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock.—[ Mr. Mudie.]

Adjourned accordingly at twenty-four minutes to Five o'clock.