Monday 23rd January 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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[Mr Speaker in the Chair]
BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS
New Writs
Ordered,
That Mr 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 County Constituency of Copeland in the room of Jamieson Ronald Reed, who since his election for the said County Constituency has been appointed to the Office of Steward and Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Manor of Northstead in the County of York.—(Mr Nicholas Brown.)
Ordered,
That Mr 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 Stoke-on-Trent Central in the room of Tristram Julian William Hunt, who since his election for the said Borough Constituency has been appointed to the Office of Steward and Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in the County of Buckingham.—(Mr Nicholas Brown.)