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Chamber business
The House met at 2:30 pm.
The House met on the first day of this Parliament, pursuant to Proclamation.
Tom Goldsmith, Clerk of the House of Commons, Sarah Davies, Clerk Assistant, and Tom Healey, Principal Clerk of the Table Office, attended in the House, and the other Clerks attended, according to their duty.
Dame Antonia Romeo, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery in Great Britain, delivered to the said Sarah Davies a book containing a list of the names of the Members returned to serve in this Parliament.
Sir Edward Leigh took the Chair (Standing Order No. 1).
2Message to attend the Lords Commissioners
Message from the Lords Commissioners delivered by the Lady 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.
3Attendance in the House of Lords
The House went up to the House of Lords.
The Commission was read for opening and holding the Parliament and the Lords Commissioners directed the House to proceed to the election of a Speaker, and to present the Speaker Elect in the House of Lords, for the Royal Approbation.
The House returned.
4Re-election of former Speaker
Sir Edward Leigh inquired whether Sir Lindsay Hoyle, as the Member who was Speaker at the dissolution of the previous Parliament, was willing to be chosen as Speaker (Standing Order No. 1A).
Sir Lindsay Hoyle stood up in his place, indicated that he was willing to be so chosen, and submitted himself to the House.
Motion made, That Sir Lindsay Hoyle do take the Chair of this House as Speaker.—(Cat Smith.)
Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 1A) and agreed to.
Sir Edward Leigh left the Chair.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle was taken out of his place and conducted to the Chair by Cat Smith and Sir David Davis.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, standing on the upper step, expressed his respectful and humble acknowledgement to the House of the great honour the House had been pleased to confer upon him, and sat down in the Chair.
The Mace was placed upon the Table.
The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, Sir Edward Leigh, Diane Abbott, Ed Davey, Stephen Flynn, Gavin Robinson, Nigel Farage, Liz Saville Roberts, Adrian Ramsay, Colum Eastwood, Sorcha Eastwood and Jim Allister congratulated the Speaker Elect.
5Message to attend the Lords Commissioners
Message from the Lords Commissioners delivered by the Lady Usher of the Black Rod:
Members of the House of Commons,
The Lords, authorised by virtue of His Majesty’s Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable House in the House of Peers.
6Attendance in the House of Lords
The Speaker Elect, with the House, went up to the House of Lords.
The Speaker Elect was presented to the Lords Commissioners for His Majesty’s Royal Approbation.
The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, one of the Lords Commissioners, signified His Majesty’s Approbation of the Speaker Elect.
The House returned.
The Speaker reported, That the House had been in the House of Lords, where His Majesty was pleased by His Majesty’s Commissioners to approve the choice the House had made of him to be its Speaker and that he had in its name and on its behalf by humble Petition to His 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 His Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction should be placed upon all its proceedings; which he said His Majesty, by His Commissioners, had been pleased to allow and confirm to it in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by His Majesty or any of His Majesty’s Royal Predecessors.
The Speaker repeated his very respectful acknowledgements and grateful thanks to the House for the great honour it had conferred upon him, and renewed the assurance of his entire devotion to the service of the House.
The Speaker reminded the House that the first thing to be done was to take and subscribe the Oath required by law.
8Taking of the Oath: The Speaker
The Speaker first, alone, standing on the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath required by law.
9Taking of the Oath or making of the Affirmation
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
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Right honourable Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh |
for Gainsborough |
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Right honourable Diane Julie Abbott |
Hackney North and Stoke Newington |
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Right honourable Sir Keir Starmer |
Holborn and St Pancras |
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Right honourable Angela Rayner |
Ashton-under-Lyne |
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Shabana Mahmood |
Birmingham Ladywood |
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Right honourable Rachel Jane Reeves |
Leeds West and Pudsey |
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Lucy Maria Powell |
Manchester Central |
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Right honourable Sir Alan Campbell |
Tynemouth |
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Right honourable Yvette Cooper |
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley |
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Right honourable David Lindon Lammy |
Tottenham |
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Peter John Kyle |
Hove and Portslade |
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Louise Margaret Haigh |
Sheffield Heeley |
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Elizabeth Louise Kendall |
Leicester West |
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Joanna Meriel Stevens |
Cardiff East |
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Lisa Eva Nandy |
Wigan |
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Steven Mark Ward Reed |
Streatham and Croydon North |
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Right honourable Hilary James Benn |
Leeds South |
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Bridget Maeve Phillipson |
Houghton and Sunderland South |
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Ian Murray |
Edinburgh South |
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Right honourable Edward Samuel Miliband |
Doncaster North |
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Wesley Paul William Streeting |
Ilford North |
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Darren Paul Jones |
Bristol North West |
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Anneliese Jane Dodds |
Oxford East |
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Right honourable Rishi Sunak |
Richmond and Northallerton |
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Right honourable Sir Oliver James Dowden |
Hertsmere |
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Right honourable Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt |
Godalming and Ash |
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Right honourable James Spencer Cleverly |
Braintree |
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Right honourable Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch |
North West Essex |
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Right honourable Stuart James Andrew |
Daventry |
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Right honourable Chris Ian Brian Mynott Philp |
Croydon South |
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Right honourable Victoria Atkins |
Louth and Horncastle |
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Laura Trott |
Sevenoaks |
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Right honourable Melvyn John Stride |
Central Devon |
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Right honourable Andrew John Bower Mitchell |
Sutton Coldfield |
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Michael Alex Burghart |
Brentwood and Ongar |
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Andrew John Griffith |
Arundel and South Downs |
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Right honourable Edward John Comport Argar |
Melton and Syston |
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Right honourable Stephen Paul Barclay |
North East Cambridgeshire |
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Richard Quentin Fuller |
North Bedfordshire |
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James Roger Cartlidge |
South Suffolk |
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Kevin Paul Hollinrake |
Thirsk and Malton |
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John Robert Lamont |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk |
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Right honourable Damian Patrick George Hinds |
East Hampshire |
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Right honourable John Philip Glen |
Salisbury |
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Miriam Jane Alice Davies |
East Grinstead and Uckfield |
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Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately |
Faversham and Mid Kent |
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Julia Louise Lopez |
Hornchurch and Upminster |
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Rebecca Elizabeth Scott Harris |
Castle Point |
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Stuart Paul Anderson |
South Shropshire |
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Right honourable Sir Jeremy Paul Wright |
Kenilworth and Southam |
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Right honourable Mark Richard Tami |
Alyn and Deeside |
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Right honourable Sir David Michael Davis |
Goole and Pocklington |
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Right honourable Douglas Garven Alexander |
Lothian East |
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Right honourable Emily Thornberry |
Islington South and Finsbury |
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Right honourable Robert Edward Jenrick |
Newark |
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Right honourable Mark Andrew Pritchard |
The Wrekin |
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Right honourable Sir Desmond Angus Swayne |
New Forest West |
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Christopher Philip James Elmore |
Bridgend |
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Sir Christopher John Bryant |
Rhondda and Ogmore |
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Stephen John Doughty |
Cardiff South and Penarth |
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Matthew Thomas Pennycook |
Greenwich and Woolwich |
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James Ignatius O'Rourke McMahon |
Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton |
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Catherine McKinnell |
Newcastle upon Tyne North |
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Catherine Elizabeth West |
Hornsey and Friern Barnet |
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Right honourable Claire Coryl Julia Coutinho |
East Surrey |
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Fleur Anderson |
Putney |
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Right honourable Valerie Carol Marian Vaz |
Walsall and Bloxwich |
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Right honourable Sir Julian Murray Lewis |
New Forest East |
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Right honourable Sir John Henry Hayes |
South Holland and The Deepings |
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Right honourable Esther Louise McVey |
Tatton |
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Right honourable Sir Roger James Gale |
Herne Bay and Sandwich |
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Right honourable Dame Priti Sushil Patel |
Witham |
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Right honourable Gavin James Robinson |
Belfast East |
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Right honourable Dame Karen Anne Bradley |
Staffordshire Moorlands |
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Right honourable Wendy Morton |
Aldridge-Brownhills |
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Right honourable Sir Stephen Creswell Timms |
East Ham |
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Karl Turner |
Kingston upon Hull East |
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Right honourable Sir Julian Richard Smith |
Skipton and Ripon |
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Daniel Owen Jarvis |
Barnsley North |
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Dame Nia Rhiannon Griffith |
Llanelli |
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Kerry Gillian McCarthy |
Bristol East |
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John Derek Twigg |
Widnes and Halewood |
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Gareth Thomas |
Harrow West |
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Jessica Elizabeth Morden |
Newport East |
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Luke Pollard |
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport |
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Dawn Petula Butler |
Brent East |
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Right honourable Alexander Jesse Norman |
Hereford and South Herefordshire |
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Right honourable Stephen Mark Flynn |
Aberdeen South |
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Nicholas Desmond John Smith |
Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney |
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Alison McGovern |
Birkenhead |
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Jessica Rose Phillips |
Birmingham Yardley |
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Colum Eastwood |
Foyle |
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Eleanor Claire Reeves |
Lewisham West and East Dulwich |
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Samantha Kate Dixon |
Chester North and Neston |
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Gagan Mohindra |
South West Hertfordshire |
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Joy Inboden Morrissey |
Beaconsfield |
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Paul John Holmes |
Hamble Valley |
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Clive James Charles Betts |
Sheffield South East |
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Michael Jon Wood |
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire |
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Right honourable Maria Eagle |
Liverpool Garston |
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Andrew Campbell Bowie |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
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Right honourable Sir George Iain Duncan Smith |
Chingford and Woodford Green |
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Simon James Hoare |
North Dorset |
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Gregory Lloyd Campbell |
East Londonderry |
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Zarah Sultana |
Coventry South |
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Feryal Demirci Clark |
Enfield North |
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Seema Malhotra-Saluja |
Feltham and Heston |
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Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams |
Oldham East and Saddleworth |
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Mohammad Yasin |
Bedford |
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Karin Marguerite Smyth |
Bristol South |
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Richard James Shannon |
Strangford |
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Nigel Paul Huddleston |
Droitwich and Evesham |
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Marie Elizabeth Rimmer |
St Helens South and Whiston |
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Right honourable Jeremy Bernard Corbyn |
Islington North |
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Barry Strachan Gardiner |
Brent West |
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Paula Barker |
Liverpool Wavertree |
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Rachel Louise Hopkins |
Luton South and South Bedfordshire |
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Stella Judith Creasy |
Walthamstow |
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Mary Kelly Foy |
City of Durham |
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Kim Marie Johnson |
Liverpool Riverside |
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Graham Eric Stringer |
Blackley and Middleton South |
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Clive Stanley Efford |
Eltham and Chislehurst |
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Christopher James Evans |
Caerphilly |
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Right honourable Sir John Flasby Lawrence Whittingdale |
Maldon |
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Marsha Chantal De Cordova |
Battersea |
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Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan |
Tooting |
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Rosemary Clare Duffield |
Canterbury |
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Sarah Deborah Champion |
Rotherham |
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Stephen James Morgan |
Portsmouth South |
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Florence Dauta Eshalomi |
Vauxhall and Camberwell Green |
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Kate Ofunne Osamor |
Edmonton and Winchmore Hill |
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Richard John Holden |
Basildon and Billericay |
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Catherine Jane Smith |
Lancaster and Wyre |
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Grahame Mark Morris |
Easington |
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Ian Lavery |
Blyth and Ashington |
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Jon Hedley Trickett |
Normanton and Hemsworth |
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Right honourable Dame Diana Ruth Johnson |
Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham |
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Peter Christopher Dowd |
Bootle |
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Luke Morgan Evans |
Hinckley and Bosworth |
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Antonia Louise Antoniazzi |
Gower |
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Claire Aisling Hanna |
Belfast South and Mid Down |
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Right honourable Christopher Laurie Malthouse |
North West Hampshire |
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Right honourable Alistair Carmichael |
Orkney and Shetland |
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Nusrat Munir Ul-Ghani |
Sussex Weald |
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Andrew Richard Rosindell |
Romford |
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Daniel Joseph Carden |
Liverpool Walton |
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Andrew John Gwynne |
Gorton and Denton |
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Navendu Prabhat Mishra |
Stockport |
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Naseem Akhter Shah |
Bradford West |
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Alexandra Mary Davies-Jones |
Pontypridd |
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Dame Angela Eagle |
Wallasey |
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George William Freeman |
Mid Norfolk |
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Gillian Furniss |
Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough |
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Mathew Richard Allen Rodda |
Reading Central |
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Preet Kaur Gill |
Birmingham Edgbaston |
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Timothy James Farron |
Westmorland and Lonsdale |
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Gerald Jones |
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare |
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Dame Caroline Julia Dinenage |
Gosport |
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Right honourable Patrick Bosco McFadden |
Wolverhampton South East |
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Right honourable Sir Edward Jonathon Davey |
Kingston and Surbiton |
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Mark Robert Timothy Garnier |
Wyre Forest |
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Andrew Howard Western |
Stretford and Urmston |
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Right honourable Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes |
Romsey and Southampton North |
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William Roffen Esterson |
Sefton Central |
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Heidi Alexander |
Swindon South |
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Emma Elizabeth Reynolds |
Wycombe |
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Abena Oppong-Asare |
Erith and Thamesmead |
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Ruth Ashley Charman Dalton |
West Lancashire |
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Paulette Adassa Hamilton |
Birmingham Erdington |
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Taiwo Victoria Owatemi |
Coventry North West |
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Andrew Joseph McDonald |
Middlesbrough and Thornaby East |
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Judith Mary Cummins |
Bradford South |
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Mohammed Afzal Khan |
Manchester Rusholme |
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Charalambos Charalambous |
Southgate and Wood Green |
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Ruth Lorraine Jones |
Newport West and Islwyn |
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Anna Rhiannon McMorrin |
Cardiff North |
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Stephanie Louise Peacock |
Barnsley South |
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Jeffrey Smith |
Manchester Withington |
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Alan Mak |
Havant |
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Lilian Rachel Greenwood |
Nottingham South |
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Tulip Rizwana Siddiq |
Hampstead and Highgate |
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Helen Elizabeth Hayes |
Dulwich and West Norwood |
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Caroline Elizabeth Johnson |
Sleaford and North Hykeham |
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Alberto Castrenze Costa |
South Leicestershire |
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Michael Lee Amesbury |
Runcorn and Helsby |
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Ian Robert Byrne |
Liverpool West Derby |
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Christine Anne Jardine |
Edinburgh West |
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Sarah Louise Green |
Chesham and Amersham |
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Layla Michelle Moran |
Oxford West and Abingdon |
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Rebecca Long-Bailey |
Salford |
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Simon Robert Lightwood |
Wakefield and Rothwell |
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Wendy Anne Chamberlain |
North East Fife |
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Sorcha-Lucy Eastwood |
Lagan Valley |
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Christopher Murray Alexander Law |
Dundee Central |
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Sarah Siena Edwards |
Tamworth |
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Alistair Luke Strathern |
Hitchin |
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David Michael Doogan |
Angus and Perthshire Glens |
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Emma Louise Lewell-Buck |
South Shields |
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Rachael Helen Maskell |
York Central |
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Mary Theresa Glindon |
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend |
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Mary Elizabeth Twist |
Blaydon and Consett |
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Rupa Asha Huq |
Ealing Central and Acton |
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Benjamin Walter Jack Spencer |
Runnymede and Weybridge |
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Gareth Andrew Bacon |
Orpington |
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Munira Wilson |
Twickenham |
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Helen Margaret Lilian Morgan |
North Shropshire |
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Andrew Henry George |
St Ives |
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Genevieve Victoria Kitchen |
Wellingborough and Rushden |
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Keir Alexander Mather |
Selby |
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Greg Smith |
Mid Buckinghamshire |
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Daniel Rayne Kruger |
East Wiltshire |
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Neil Peter Hammerton Hudson |
Epping Forest |
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Wera Benedicta Hobhouse |
Bath |
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Janet Jessica Daby |
Lewisham East |
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Juliet Olive Campbell |
Broxtowe |
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Yasmin Qureshi |
Bolton South and Walkden |
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Helen Grant |
Maidstone and Malling |
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Brendan O'Hara |
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber |
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Neil John O'Brien |
Harborough, Oadby and Wigston |
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Sarah Ann Jones |
Croydon West |
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Victoria Jane Foxcroft |
Lewisham North |
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Christian Wakeford |
Bury South |
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Sir Christopher Robert Chope |
Christchurch |
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Adam Habib Jogee |
Newcastle-under-Lyme |
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Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi |
Slough |
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Bradley Anthony Thomas |
Bromsgrove |
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Matthew John Patrick |
Wirral West |
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Lewis Christopher Cocking |
Broxbourne |
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Richard Burgon |
Leeds East |
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Nadia Edith Whittome |
Nottingham East |
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Sir Mark Phillip Hendrick |
Preston |
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Leigh Ingham |
Stafford |
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Maya Anneke Elsie Ellis |
Ribble Valley |
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Christopher McDonald |
Stockton North |
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Lauren Sullivan |
Gravesham |
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Dan Norris |
North East Somerset and Hanham |
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Alexandra Mayer |
Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard |
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Kim Michele Leadbeater |
Spen Valley |
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Andrew Francis Slaughter |
Hammersmith and Chiswick |
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Martin John Vickers |
Brigg and Immingham |
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Sarah Jane Olney |
Richmond Park |
The Speaker suspended the House until 7.30 pm.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
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Daisy Cooper |
St Albans |
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Sir Ashley Peter Fox |
Bridgwater |
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Joshua Thomas Aderele Babarinde |
Eastbourne |
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Brian George Felton Mathew |
Melksham and Devizes |
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James Hugh Allister |
North Antrim |
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Alexander Easton |
North Down |
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Benedict Maguire |
North Cornwall |
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Adam James Dance |
Yeovil |
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John Martin Charles Wrigley |
Newton Abbot |
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Vikki Slade |
Mid Dorset and North Poole |
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Gideon John Amos |
Taunton and Wellington |
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Tessa Jane Munt |
Wells and Mendip Hills |
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Susan Catherine Murray |
Mid Dunbartonshire |
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Clive Richard Jones |
Wokingham |
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Sir Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown |
North Cotswolds |
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Sir Bernard Christison Jenkin |
Harwich and North Essex |
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Sharon Hodgson |
Washington and Gateshead South |
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Robert John Blackman |
Harrow East |
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Lee Raymond James Dillon |
Newbury |
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Tristan John Osborne |
Chatham and Aylesford |
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Jo White |
Bassetlaw |
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Andrew James Snowden |
Fylde |
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Sarah Dyke |
Glastonbury and Somerton |
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Thomas Gordon |
Harrogate and Knaresborough |
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Ben Obese-Jecty |
Huntingdon |
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Rebecca Sheila Paul |
Reigate |
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Jack Michael Rankin |
Windsor |
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Aphra Kendal Alice Brandreth |
Chester South and Eddisbury |
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Rebecca Jane Smith |
South West Devon |
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Alexandre Samuel Barros-Curtis |
Cardiff West |
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Kanishka Narayan |
Vale of Glamorgan |
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Damien Egan |
Bristol North East |
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Torsten Henricson Bell |
Swansea West |
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Gareth Craig Snell |
Stoke-on-Trent Central |
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Henry Tufnell |
Mid and South Pembrokeshire |
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Luke Sean Murphy |
Basingstoke |
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Luke Myer |
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland |
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Steffan Luke Aquarone |
North Norfolk |
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Alicia Alexandra Martha Kearns |
Rutland and Stamford |
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Peter Alexander Bedford |
Mid Leicestershire |
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Caroline Jane Voaden |
South Devon |
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Rosalind Elizabeth Adriana Savage |
South Cotswolds |
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Sarah Gibson |
Chippenham |
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Anna Elizabeth Sabine |
Frome and East Somerset |
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Ian Fraser Sollom |
St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire |
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Dame Harriett Mary Morison Baldwin |
West Worcestershire |
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Alexander James Jorden Norris |
Nottingham North and Kimberley |
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Emma Louise Foody |
Cramlington and Killingworth |
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Right honourable Mark Gino Francois |
Rayleigh and Wickford |
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Lisa Smart |
Hazel Grove |
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Robert Peter Moore |
Keighley and Ilkley |
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Pamela Ann Catherine Nash |
Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke |
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Justin Piers Richard Madders |
Ellesmere Port and Bromborough |
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Richard John Foord |
Honiton and Sidmouth |
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Joe Paul James Robertson |
Isle of Wight East |
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Louie Thomas French |
Old Bexley and Sidcup |
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Bobby Warren Dean |
Carshalton and Wallington |
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Monica Bernadette Etheldreda Harding |
Esher and Walton |
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Joshua Peter Reynolds |
Maidenhead |
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Sarah Bool |
South Northamptonshire |
The Speaker suspended the House until 8.30 pm.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
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Manuela Perteghella |
Stratford-on-Avon |
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Neil Shastri-Hurst |
Solihull West and Shirley |
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Maximilian Peter McGregor Wilkinson |
Cheltenham |
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Charles Alistair Geoffrey Dewhirst |
Bridlington and The Wolds |
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Ian Roome |
North Devon |
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Oliver David Ryan |
Burnley |
Resolved, That this House do now adjourn.—(Christian Wakeford.)
Adjourned at 8.49 pm until tomorrow.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
Speaker