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Volume 370: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2001

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House Of Commons

Tuesday 19 June 2001

The House met at half-past Two o'clock

Prayers

[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]

Members Sworn

Order. May I request that the most senior Members are taken first and that junior Members draw back? I see Sir Peter Tapsell; he is a very senior Member.

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

  • Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, Louth and Horncastle
  • Right honourable Alistair Maclean Darling, Edinburgh Central
  • Right honourable Michael Hugh Meacher, Oldham West and Royton
  • Right honourable Wyvill Richard Nicolls Raynsford, Greenwich and Woolwich
  • Lewis George Moonie, Kirkcaldy
  • Peter Gerald Hain, Neath
  • Jane Elizabeth Kennedy, Liverpool, Wavertree
  • Stephen Twigg, Enfield, Southgate
  • Alan Patrick Vincent Whitehead, Southampton, Test
  • John Healey, Wentworth
  • George Iain Duncan Smith, Chingford and Woodford Green
  • Right honourable Alan James Beith, Berwick-upon-Tweed
  • Joan Lorraine Walley, Stoke-on-Trent North
  • Right honourable Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo, Kensington and Chelsea
  • Right honourable Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, North West Hampshire
  • Jimmy Wray, Glasgow Baillieston
  • Eddie McGrady, South Down
  • Bob Blizzard, Waveney
  • Michael John Mates, East Hampshire
  • David Gordon Clelland, Tyne Bridge
  • Right honourable Peter Bruce Lilley, Hitchin and Harpenden
  • Right honourable Gillian Patricia Shephard, South West Norfolk
  • Malcolm Douglas Moss, North East Cambridgeshire
  • Brian Harold Donohoe, Cunninghame South
  • Harry Michael Cohen, Leyton and Wanstead
  • Right honourable Donald Anderson, Swansea East
  • Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd, Aldridge-Brownhills
  • Austin Vernon Mitchell, Great Grimsby
  • Right honourable Sir John Paul Stanley, Tonbridge and Malling
  • David William George Chidgey, Eastleigh
  • David Anthony Crausby, Bolton North East
  • Malcolm Gray Bruce, Gordon
  • Lindsay Harvey Hoyle, Chorley
  • Eric Evlyn Illsley, Barnsley Central
  • Llewellyn Thomas Smith, Blaenau Gwent
  • Eric Jack Pickles, Brentwood and Ongar
  • George Edward Howarth, Knowsley North and Sefton East
  • Right honourable David John Denzil Davies, Llanelli
  • Alan Arthur Johnson, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
  • Richard Lewis Page, South West Hertfordshire
  • William Nigel Paul Cash, Stone
  • Timothy Paul Loughton, East Worthing and Shoreham
  • John Robert Greenway, Ryedale
  • Peter Leslie Pike, Burnley
  • Richard Haines Burden, Birmingham, Northfield
  • Julian William Hendy Brazier, Canterbury
  • Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Cotswold
  • Peter James Luff, Mid Worcestershire
  • Paul Gerrard Goggins, Wythenshawe and Sale East
  • Derek Leslie Conway, Old Bexley and Sidcup
  • James Dobbin, Heywood and Middleton
  • Diana Mary Organ, Forest of Dean
  • Nicholas Douglas Palmer, Broxtowe
  • Paul Anthony Truswell, Pudsey
  • Paul Tyler, North Cornwall
  • Mohammed Sarwar, Glasgow Govan
  • Brian Joseph Cotter, Weston-Super-Mare
  • James Sheridan, West Renfrewshire
  • John Lyons, Strathkelvin and Bearsden
  • Debra Ann Shipley, Stourbridge
  • Robert Andrew Raymond Syms, Poole
  • Christopher Paul Farrelly, Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Betty Helena Williams, Conwy
  • Fabian Hamilton, Leeds North East
  • William Anthony Worthington, Clydebank and Milngavie
  • Howard Geoffrey Alvan Stoate, Dartford
  • James Mackay Cousins, Newcastle upon Tyne Central
  • Angela Eileen Watkinson, Upminster
  • James Whiteside Gray, North Wiltshire
  • Jonathan Simon Djangoly, Huntingdon
  • Paul William Barry Marsden, Shrewsbury and Atcham
  • Adrian John Flook, Taunton
  • Karen Patricia Buck, Regent's Park and Kensington North
  • Michael John Foster, Worcester
  • Ashok Kumar, Middlesborough South and East Cleveland
  • Patrick John Mercer, Newark
  • Andrew Murrison, Westbury
  • Joan Marie Ryan, Enfield North
  • Ian Richard Liddell-Grainger, Bridgwater
  • Charles Hendry, Wealden
  • Louise Ellman, Liverpool, Riverside
  • Thomas Hilton Dawson, Lancaster and Wyre
  • Margaret Moran, Luton South
  • Iain Luke, Dundee East
  • Timothy William George Collins, Westmorland and Lonsdale
  • George Gideon Oliver Osborne, Tatton
  • Martin Philip Caton, Gower
  • David Stanley Borrow, South Ribble
  • Tom Levitt, High Peak
  • Tom Harris, Glasgow Cathcart
  • Michael Cathel Fallon, Sevenoaks
  • Shaun Anthony Woodward, St Helens South
  • Ian Colin Lucas, Wrexham
  • Jim Knight, South Dorset
  • John Martin McDonnell, Hayes and Harlington
  • Clive Stanley Efford, Eltham
  • David Alan Heyes, Ashton under Lyne
  • David Anthony Laws, Yeovil
  • John David Pugh, Southport
  • Peter John Duncan, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
  • Tony McWalter, Hemel Hempstead
  • Julian Murray Lewis, New Forest East
  • Anne Begg, Aberdeen South
  • Annette Lesley Brooke, Mid Dorset and North Poole
  • Patsy Calton, Cheadle
  • Sylvia Hermon, North Down
  • Mark Gerard Hoban, Fareham
  • Robert John Walter, North Dorset
  • Mark Richard Tami, Alyn and Deeside
  • Paul Gordon Clark, Gillingham
  • Philip Ian Hope, Corby
  • Claire Ward, Watford
  • Dominic Charles Robert Grieve, Beaconsfield
  • Michael John Gapes, Ilford South
  • Norman Peter Lamb, North Norfolk
  • Stephen Hesford, Wirral West
  • Nigel Griffiths, Edinburgh South
  • Right honourable Alan Thomas Howarth, Newport East
  • Simon Thomas, Ceredigion
  • Hywel Williams, Caernarfon
  • Adam Price, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
  • Gisela Gschaider Stuart, Birmingham, Edgbaston
  • Michael David Wills, North Swindon
  • Steven John Webb, Northavon
  • Alistair James Hendrie Burt, North East Bedfordshire
  • Damian Howard Green, Ashford
  • Keith Robert Simpson, Mid Norfolk
  • Julie Morgan, Cardiff North
  • Albert Owen, Ynys Môn
  • Angus Robertson, Moray
  • Right honourable John Selwyn Gummer, Suffolk Coastal
  • Keith Vaz, Leicester East
  • Robert Howard Marris, Wolverhampton South West
  • Jane Patricia Griffiths, Reading East
  • Philip Andrew Sawford, Kettering
  • Eric Anthony Martlew, Carlisle
  • Michael Jabez Foster, Hastings and Rye
  • Kim Scott Howells, Pontypridd
  • Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns, West Chelmsford
  • David Roy Lidington, Aylesbury
  • Russell Leslie Brown, Dumfries
  • Ann Coffey, Stockport
  • Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, Islington North
  • Martin John Salter, Reading West
  • Andrew Francis Bennett, Denton and Reddish
  • Michael Louis David Fabricant, Lichfield
  • Robert Edward Russell, Colchester
  • David Wilson Boyd Burnside, South Antrim
  • Andrew Robert Frederick Hunter, Basingstoke
  • Siobhain Ann McDonagh, Mitcham and Morden
  • John David Cairns, Greenock and Inverclyde
  • Christopher Shaun Ruane, Vale of Clwyd
  • Adrian Mark Sanders, Torbay
  • Patrick Allen McLoughlin, West Derbyshire
  • Ian Graham Davidson, Glasgow Pollok
  • Geraint Richard Davies, Croydon Central
  • Daphne Barbara Follett, Stevenage
  • Malcolm Hunt Wicks, Croydon North
  • Roger Mark Casale, Wimbledon
  • Jeffrey Ennis, Barnsley East and Mexborough
  • Robert Graham Marshall-Andrews, Medway
  • Norman John Baker, Lewes
  • Paul Robert Holmes, Chesterfield
  • Richard Younger-Ross, Teignbridge
  • Right honourable Stephen John Byers, North Tyneside
  • Thomas Anthony Cunningham, Workington
  • Liam Fox, Woodspring
  • Andrew John Turner, Isle of Wight
  • Peter Charles Stephen Bradley, The Wrekin
  • Right honourable Nicholas Hugh Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
  • Graham William Allen, Nottingham North
  • Kelvin Peter Hopkins, Luton North
  • Hugh Robertson, Faversham and Mid Kent
  • Anthony John Colman, Putney
  • Richard Thomas Taylor, Wyre Forest
  • Matthew Roger Green, Ludlow
  • Julia Kate Drown, South Swindon
  • Right honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, South West Surrey
  • Claire Curtis-Thomas Crosby
  • Geoffrey Robinson, Coventry North West
  • Gordon Marsden, Blackpool South
  • Marsha Singh, Bradford West
  • Sir Robert Smith, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
  • Michael Kevin Moore, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
  • John Patrick Burnett, Torridge and West Devon
  • Mark Oaten, Winchester
  • Jonathan Rowland Shaw, Chatham and Aylesford
  • Caroline Alice Spelman, Meriden
  • Christopher Robert Chope, Christchurch
  • Right honourable Stephen James Dorrell, Charnwood
  • Lembit Öpik, Montgomeryshire
  • Roger Hugh Williams, Brecon and Radnorshire
  • Edward Jonathon Davey, Kingston and Surbiton
  • Dennis Edward Skinner, Bolsover
  • David Anthony Andrew Amess, Southend West
  • Christopher John Bryant, Rhondda
  • Anthony Louis Banks, West Ham
  • Andrew Stunell, Hazel Grove
  • Barry Sheerman, Huddersfield
  • Peter Wishart, North Tayside

Adjournment

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

Adjourned accordingly at Five o'clock.