I remind the House that I will be in the Chair today until 4.30 pm or for as long as there are Members wishing to take the oath this afternoon. There will be further opportunities for Members to take the oath at 2.15 pm tomorrow. 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:
Sir Stuart Bell, for Middlesbrough
Thomas Docherty, Dunfermline and West Fife
Right honourable John Whitaker Straw, Blackburn
Right honourable David Blunkett, Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
Right honourable Peter Gerald Hain, Neath
Jake Berry, Rossendale and Darwen
James Dobbin, Heywood and Middleton
Right honourable Kevin John Barron, Rother Valley
Nigel Martin Evans, Ribble Valley
Jack Dromey, Birmingham, Erdington
Adam James Harold Holloway, Gravesham
Norman John Baker, Lewes
David Laurie Ruffley, Bury St Edmunds
Right honourable Sir Michael Leslie Rifkind, Kensington
Robert John Walter, North Dorset
Laura Jane Sandys, South Thanet
Andrew John Stevenson, Carlisle
Jacob William Rees-Mogg, North East Somerset
Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles, Grantham and Stamford
Amber Rudd, Hastings and Rye
Sarah Louise Newton, Truro and Falmouth
Karen Patricia Buck, Westminster North
Nicholas Dakin, Scunthorpe
Diana Ruth Johnson, Kingston upon Hull North
Rosemary Elizabeth Cooper, West Lancashire
Linda June Riordan, Halifax
David Hamilton, Midlothian
Right honourable James Norwich Arbuthnot, North East Hampshire
Marsha Singh, Bradford West
Rushanara Ali, Bethnal Green and Bow,
Shabana Mahmood, Birmingham, Ladywood
James Peter Brokenshire, Old Bexley and Sidcup
David Stewart Havard, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Naomi Rachel Long, Belfast East
Simon Christopher Danczuk, Rochdale
Graham Peter Jones, Hyndburn
Emma Elizabeth Reynolds, Wolverhampton North East
David Ward, Bradford East
Eric Joyce, Falkirk
Anas Sarwar, Glasgow Central
Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng, Spelthorne
Frank Zacharias Robin Goldsmith, Richmond Park
Stephen David John Gilbert, St Austell and Newquay
Timothy James Farron, Westmorland and Lonsdale
Gregory Thomas Mulholland, Leeds North West
Anthony Edward Timpson, Crewe and Nantwich
Ian Cameron Swales, Redcar
Mark Julian Francis Pawsey, Rugby
Oliver Newton Colvile, Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
David Ian Jones, Clwyd West
Siobhain Ann McDonagh, Mitcham and Morden
Mark John Reckless, Rochester and Strood
Nadine Vanessa Dorries, Mid Bedfordshire
Steven John Baker, Wycombe
Sheila Gilmore, Edinburgh East
Fiona O’Donnell, East Lothian
David Alan Heyes, Ashton-under-Lyne
Paul Singh Uppal, Wolverhampton South West
Edward Henry Butler Vaizey, Wantage
Stephen Twigg, Liverpool, West Derby
Thomas David Simpson, Upper Bann
Ivan Lewis, Bury South
David William St John Heath, Somerton and Frome
Margaret Ritchie, South Down
John Martin McDonnell, Hayes and Harlington
Russell Leslie Brown, Dumfries and Galloway
Right honourable Gregory Knight, East Yorkshire
Right honourable Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, Lagan Valley
Richard James Shannon, Strangford
Ian Christopher Austin, Dudley North
Christopher Shaun Ruane, Vale of Clwyd
Stephen Rothwell O’Brien, Eddisbury
Tessa Jane Munt, Wells
James Patrick Dowd, Lewisham West and Penge
Graham Eric Stringer, Blackley and Broughton
Karen Anne Bradley, Staffordshire Moorlands