Thursday 8th November 2012

(12 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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[Mr Speaker in the Chair]
Business Before questions
New Writs
Ordered,
That the Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough constituency of Croydon North in the room of the right hon. Malcolm Hunt Wicks, deceased.—(Ms Winterton.)
Ordered,
That the Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough constituency of Middlesbrough in the room of Sir Stuart Bell, deceased.— (Ms Winterton.)
Ordered,
That the Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough constituency of Rotherham, in the room of the right hon. Denis MacShane, who since his election for the said Borough constituency has been appointed to the Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham, in the County of Buckingham.—(Ms Winterton.)