House of Commons
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners
Mr Speaker
I have to report that this House has been in the House of Lords where Her Majesty, by Her Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself for the Office of Speaker. I have, in your name and on your behalf, made claim by humble petition to Her Majesty to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, and freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion shall require, and that the most favourable construction shall be put upon all proceedings. All these Her Majesty, by Her Commissioners, has been pleased to confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by Herself or by any of Her Royal Predecessors.
My first duty to the House is to report my respectful acknowledgement and grateful thanks for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the Chair.
Members Sworn
Mr Speaker
I must now call on the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance or to affirm at the Table of the House, first doing so myself.
The Speaker first, alone, standing on the upper step of the Chair, made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law.
Mr Speaker
I should remind hon. Members that until they take the Oath or affirm, they must not sit during any debate or vote in any Division of the House, and will not receive any salary.
The arrangements for swearing in are set out in the Chamber information sheet, and a guidance note is also available from the Table and Vote Offices.
I propose to call first the Father of the House, then members of the Cabinet, then members of the shadow Cabinet, then all Privy Counsellors not included in those two groups, wherever they may be sitting, and then other Ministers. Thereafter, I shall call other hon. Members according to the Parliament of their first entry, or, for those with broken service, that of most recent entry. The first batch will be those who have been Members since before the 2010 general election. Thereafter I shall proceed to call Members by successive Parliaments. I do not expect to call new Members until tomorrow.
I propose to remain in the Chair until 5 pm today, and then to return at 5.30 pm and continue until 7.30 pm or later, as necessary. The House will sit again tomorrow at 9.30 am. I propose to be in the Chair for swearing in tomorrow from 9.30 am until 11.30 am, to return at 12 noon until 1.30 pm, and then again, if required, from 2.30 pm until 4.30 pm. I hope that by the end of tomorrow afternoon we will have made sufficient progress to enable all Members to swear in who wish to do so. However, if required, we will sit for swearing in at 2 pm on the day of the Queen’s Speech. [Interruption.] I am not in a position to divulge any further information on that matter. I hope that Members will come forward in an orderly manner.
I remind Members that the swearing in, as a proceeding of the House, is recorded by the television cameras, and that anything said or done by Members may appear on television or be picked up by microphones. It will assist the broadcasters if new Members state their name and constituency when they come to the Dispatch Box. Progress will depend, of course, on the number of Members wishing to swear in at any particular time. I advise Members to watch the Annunciators to establish progress, and to speak to their Whips.
In a moment, we will begin this process, as I indicated a few moments ago, with the Father of the House, but before we do so I want to make a very short statement.
All of us will be aware of, and horrified by, the tragic fire that engulfed the vast majority of an enormous block of flats in London in the early hours of this morning. Colleagues, it is not possible to treat of that matter in the way that we otherwise, I am sure, would wish to do in the Chamber today. The Government are very sensitive to the concern that exists on this subject and my very clear understanding is that arrangements are in hand for a meeting with the relevant Minister to take place within the precincts of the Palace of Westminster. That meeting can be attended by colleagues gravely concerned about this matter, and no doubt questions can be put to the Minister and answers, such as he or she is able to give, can be provided. It will not be a proceeding of Parliament, and that would not be possible under our Standing Orders. Nor is it possible, after I have spoken, for anybody else to say anything. I just want, I am sure on behalf of each and every one of you in this Chamber, to offer our condolences to the families and friends of the victims of this unimaginable and horrific disaster. I want also, I am sure with your concurrence, to offer the warmest and most effusive thanks to our magnificent emergency services for coping as best they can in this horrendous situation. I hope colleagues will understand that we have to leave it there for now. Thank you.
Let us now begin, and we do so, appropriately, with the Father of the House, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe.
The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:
Right honourable Kenneth Harry Clarke, for Rushcliffe
Right honourable Theresa Mary May, Maidenhead
Right honourable Damian Howard Green, Ashford
Right honourable Philip Hammond, Runnymede and Weybridge
Right honourable Amber Rudd, Hastings and Rye
Right honourable Justine Greening, Putney
Right honourable Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt, South West Surrey
Right honourable David Roy Lidington, Aylesbury
Right honourable Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom, South Northamptonshire
Right honourable Gavin Alexander Williamson, South Staffordshire
Right honourable Sajid Javid, Bromsgrove
Right honourable Priti Sushil Patel, Witham
Right honourable Christopher Stephen Grayling, Epsom and Ewell
Right honourable Gregory David Clark, Tunbridge Wells
Right honourable Sir Patrick Allen McLoughlin, Derbyshire Dales
Right honourable Elizabeth Mary Truss, South West Norfolk
Right honourable Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Uxbridge and South Ruislip
Right honourable James Peter Brokenshire, Old Bexley and Sidcup
Right honourable Brandon Kenneth Lewis, Great Yarmouth
Right honourable Michael Andrew Gove, Surrey Heath
Right honourable David Michael Davis, Haltemprice and Howden
Right honourable David Gordon Mundell, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Right honourable Alun Hugh Cairns, Vale of Glamorgan
Right honourable David Michael Gauke, South West Hertfordshire
Right honourable Karen Anne Bradley, Staffordshire Moorlands
Right honourable Jeremy Paul Wright, Kenilworth and Southam
Right honourable Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, Islington North
Right honourable Nicholas Hugh Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne East
Right honourable Emily Thornberry, Islington South and Finsbury
Right honourable John Martin McDonnell, Hayes and Harlington
Right honourable Diane Julie Abbott, Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Valerie Carol Marian Vaz, Walsall South
Right honourable John Healey, Wentworth and Dearne
Andrew John Gwynne, Denton and Reddish
Ian Lavery, Wansbeck
Barry Strachan Gardiner, Brent North
Richard Burgon, Leeds East
Angela Rayner, Ashton-under-Lyne
Jon Hedley Trickett, Hemsworth
Andrew Joseph McDonald, Middlesbrough
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth, Leicester South
Catherine Jane Smith, Lancaster and Fleetwood
Kate Ofunne Osamor, Edmonton
Rebecca Long Bailey, Salford and Eccles
Barbara Mary Keeley, Worsley and Eccles South
Susan Mary Hayman, Workington
Deborah Angela Elspeth Marie Abrahams, Oldham East and Saddleworth
Christina Elizabeth Rees, Neath
Nia Rhiannon Griffith, Llanelli
Keir Starmer, Holborn and St Pancras
Peter Christopher Dowd, Bootle
Right honourable Margaret Mary Beckett, Derby South
Right honourable Frank Field, Birkenhead
Right honourable Cheryl Elise Kendall Gillan, Chesham and Amersham
Right honourable Sir Alan James Carter Duncan, Rutland and Melton
Right honourable David Anthony Evennett, Bexleyheath and Crayford
Right honourable John Alan Redwood, Wokingham
Paul Phillip Flynn, Newport West
Right honourable Matthew John David Hancock, West Suffolk
Right honourable Sir Desmond Angus Swayne, New Forest West
Right honourable Dame Caroline Alice Spelman, Meriden
Right honourable Anne Frances Milton, Guildford
Right honourable Sir Oliver Heald, North East Hertfordshire
Right honourable Dame Margaret Eve Hodge, Barking
Right honourable Sir Kevin John Barron, Rother Valley
Right honourable Robert Henry Halfon, Harlow
Right honourable John Francis Spellar, Warley
Right honourable Nigel Alexander Dodds, Belfast North
Right honourable Richard Henry Ronald Benyon, Newbury
Right honourable Nick Herbert, Arundel and South Downs
Right honourable Sir Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, Lagan Valley
Catharine Letitia Hoey, Vauxhall
Thérèse Anne Coffey, Suffolk Coastal
Ronnie Campbell, Blyth Valley
Right honourable Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve, Beaconsfield
Right honourable Sir Edward Jonathon Davey, Kingston and Surbiton
Right honourable Alexander Morrison Carmichael, Orkney and Shetland
Sir John Vincent Cable, Twickenham
Right honourable George Edward Howarth, Knowsley
Right honourable Thomas Anthony Brake, Carshalton and Wallington
Right honourable Dame Rosalie Winterton, Doncaster Central
Right honourable Keith Anthony Vaz, Leicester East
Right honourable David George Hanson, Delyn
Right honourable Caroline Louise Flint, Don Valley
Right honourable John Henry Hayes, South Holland and The Deepings
Philip Martin Dunne, Ludlow
Right honourable Maria Frances Lewis Miller, Basingstoke
Right honourable Stephen Crabb, Preseli Pembrokeshire
Right honourable Theresa Anne Villiers, Chipping Barnet
Right honourable Sir Hugo George William Swire, East Devon
Right honourable David Ian Jones, Clwyd West
Right honourable Lindsay Harvey Hoyle, Chorley
Right honourable Alan Campbell, Tynemouth
Right honourable Sir Oliver Letwin, West Dorset
Right honourable Alistair James Hendrie Burt, North East Bedfordshire
Right honourable Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw, Exeter
Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch, Chatham and Aylesford
Right honourable Sir Gregory Knight, East Yorkshire
Right honourable Robert Ben Lobban Wallace, Wyre and Preston North
Right honourable Mark Harper, Forest of Dean
Right honourable Julian Murray Lewis, New Forest East
Sir William Nigel Paul Cash, Stone
Right honourable Nicola Ann Morgan, Loughborough
Right honourable Nicolas John Gibb, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
Sir Peter James Bottomley, Worthing West
Richard Michael Bacon, South Norfolk
Alexander Jesse Norman, Hereford and South Herefordshire
Michael Tyrone Ellis, Northampton North
Margot Cathleen James, Stourbridge
Stephen Charles Brine, Winchester
Sir Roger James Gale, North Thanet
John Michael Howell, Henley
Angela Eagle, Wallasey
Helen Mary Jones, Warrington North
Fiona Claire Bruce, Congleton
Gloria De Piero, Ashfield
Right honourable Harriet Ruth Harman, Camberwell and Peckham
Heidi Alexander, Lewisham East
Catherine McKinnell, Newcastle upon Tyne North
Robert James Buckland, South Swindon
Paul Christopher Maynard, Blackpool North and Cleveleys
Eleanor Fulton Laing, Epping Forest
Karl Turner, Kingston upon Hull East
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, North Antrim
Sir David Anthony Andrew Amess, Southend West
Thomas David Simpson, Upper Bann
Gavin James Robinson, Belfast East
Samuel Wilson, East Antrim
Michael John Gapes, Ilford South
Kevan David Jones, North Durham
John Robert Cryer, Leyton and Wanstead
Virendra Kumar Sharma, Ealing, Southall
Adrian Edward Bailey, West Bromwich West
Stephen Hepburn, Jarrow
Kelvin Peter Hopkins, Luton North
Nadine Vanessa Dorries, Mid Bedfordshire
Fabian Hamilton, Leeds North East
Right honourable Stephen Creswell Timms, East Ham
Lisa Eva Nandy, Wigan
Alan Patrick Vincent Whitehead, Southampton, Test
Clive Stanley Efford, Eltham
Ivan Lewis, Bury South
Sir David Anthony Crausby, Bolton North East
Michael Joseph Patrick Kane, Wythenshawe and Sale East
Anthony Joseph Lloyd, Rochdale
James Dolan Cunningham, Coventry South
Seema Malhotra, Feltham and Heston
Christopher John Bryant, Rhondda
Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger, Bridgwater and West Somerset
Timothy James Farron, Westmorland and Lonsdale
Lilian Rachel Greenwood, Nottingham South
William Roffen Esterson, Sefton Central
Right honourable Norman Peter Lamb, North Norfolk
Right honourable Owen William Paterson, North Shropshire
Robin Caspar Walker, Worcester
Geraint Davies, Swansea West
Chloe Rebecca Smith, Norwich North
William David Wiggin, North Herefordshire
Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds, Torfaen
Ian Colin Lucas, Wrexham
Graham Eric Stringer, Blackley and Broughton
Gordon Marsden, Blackpool South
Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes, Romsey and Southampton North
Right honourable George Iain Duncan Smith, Chingford and Woodford Green
Right honourable Esther Louise McVey, Tatton
Mark Robert Timothy Garnier, Wyre Forest
John Derek Twigg, Halton
John Mark Lancaster, Milton Keynes North
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt, Reigate
Charles George Eustice, Camborne and Redruth
Sarah Louise Newton, Truro and Falmouth
Lucy Maria Powell, Manchester Central
James McMahon, Oldham West and Royton
Right honourable David Lindon Lammy, Tottenham
Madeleine Moon, Bridgend
Jessica Elizabeth Morden, Newport East
Margaret Olivia Hillier, Hackney South and Shoreditch
James Whiteside Gray, North Wiltshire
James Ian Mearns, Gateshead
Dominic Rennie Raab, Esher and Walton
Sir Alexander Paul Beresford, Mole Valley
Mark Phillip Hendrick, Preston
Laurence Anthony Robertson, Tewkesbury
Maria Eagle, Garston and Halewood
Anne Margaret Main, St Albans
Julie Elliott, Sunderland Central
Bridget Maeve Phillipson, Houghton and Sunderland South
Charles Ashley Rupert Walker, Broxbourne
Graham Stuart Brady, Altrincham and Sale West
Conor Burns, Bournemouth West
Kevin John Foster, Torbay
Stewart Hosie, Dundee East
Angus Brendan MacNeil, Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Andrew James Griffiths, Burton
Right honourable Yvette Cooper, Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
Christopher Philip James Elmore, Ogmore
Marie Elizabeth Rimmer, St Helens South and Whiston
Yvonne Helen Fovargue, Makerfield
Naseem Akhtar Shah, Bradford West
Atta-Ur-Rehman Chishti, Gillingham and Rainham
Andrew William Murrison, South West Wiltshire
Right honourable John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, Maldon
Simon James Hoare, North Dorset
Richard Haines Burden, Birmingham, Northfield
Louise Joyce Ellman, Liverpool, Riverside
Wayne David, Caerphilly
Matthew Robert Warman, Boston and Skegness
Caroline Elizabeth Johnson, Sleaford and North Hykeham
Vernon Coaker, Gedling
Philip Wilson, Sedgefield
Matthew Toby Perkins, Chesterfield
Alison McGovern, Wirral South
Emma Louise Lewell-Buck, South Shields
Catherine Malloy Hollern, Blackburn
Khalid Mahmood, Birmingham, Perry Barr
Angela Christine Smith, Penistone and Stocksbridge
Right honourable Patrick Bosco McFadden, Wolverhampton South East
Christopher Paul Farrelly, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Grahame Mark Morris, Easington
Joanna Meriel Stevens, Cardiff Central
James Morris, Halesowen and Rowley Regis
Michael Mark Prisk, Hertford and Stortford
Thangam Elizabeth Rachel Debbonaire, Bristol West
Julie Elizabeth Cooper, Burnley
Gordon Leonard Henderson, Sittingbourne and Sheppey
Neil Parish, Tiverton and Honiton
Rebecca Faye Pow, Taunton Deane
Scott Leslie Mann, North Cornwall
Mian Faisal Rashid, Warrington South
Stephen Twigg, Liverpool, West Derby
Right honourable Edward Samuel Miliband, Doncaster North
Caroline Julia Dinenage, Gosport
Lyn Carol Brown, West Ham
Robert Edward Jenrick, Newark
Michael James Tomlinson, Mid Dorset and North Poole
Clive James Charles Betts, Sheffield South East
Peter Wishart, Perth and North Perthshire
Christopher Michael Leslie, Nottingham East
Nigel John Mills, Amber Valley
Sylvia Eileen Hermon, North Down
Sheryll Murray, South East Cornwall
Damian Patrick George Hinds, East Hampshire
Jonathan Simon Djanogly, Huntingdon
Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh, Gainsborough
John Mann, Bassetlaw
David Thomas Morris, Morecambe and Lunesdale
James Jacob Gilchrist Berry, Rossendale and Darwen
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous, South West Bedfordshire
William Peter Wragg, Hazel Grove
Stuart James Andrew, Pudsey
Robert Alexander Stewart, Beckenham
Chi Susan Onwurah, Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Nicholas Desmond John Smith, Blaenau Gwent
Rosena Chantelle Allin-Khan, Tooting
Right honourable Mark Gino Francois, Rayleigh and Wickford
Sharon Hodgson, Washington and Sunderland West
Peter Heaton-Jones, North Devon
Jonathan Cruddas, Dagenham and Rainham
John Charles Baron, Basildon and Billericay
Imran Hussain, Bradford East
Mr Speaker
Order. The sitting is suspended until 6 pm. The bells will be rung five minutes before the sitting resumes. Any Member elected up to and including the 2015 Parliament—but by definition not including the 2017 Parliament—may join the queue.
Adjournment
House of Lords
Speaker of the House of Commons
(7 years, 6 months ago)
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The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Evans of Bowes Park) (Con)
My Lords, I beg to acquaint the House that a Commission has been issued under Her Majesty’s Great Seal to several Lords therein named authorising the said Lords to declare in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty Her Majesty’s approbation of the choice of the Commons of Mr John Bercow to be their Speaker.
Then, the Lords Commissioners (the Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Evans of Bowes Park), the Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler), Baroness Smith of Basildon, Lord Newby and Lord Hope of Craighead) being robed and seated in front of the Throne, the Lord Privy Seal directed Black Rod as follows:
Let the Commons know that the Lords Commissioners desire their immediate attendance in this House.
Then, the Commons being at the Bar, Mr Speaker-Elect (Mr John Bercow), addressing the Royal Commissioners, said:
My Lords, I have to acquaint your Lordships that, in obedience to the Royal Command, Her Majesty’s faithful Commons have, in the exercise of their undoubted rights and privileges, proceeded to the election of a Speaker, and that their choice has fallen upon myself. I therefore present myself to your Lordships’ Bar and submit myself with all humility to Her Majesty’s gracious Approbation.
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
Mr John Bercow, we are commanded to assure you that Her Majesty is so fully sensible of your zeal in the public service, and of your ample sufficiency to execute the arduous duties which her faithful Commons have selected you to discharge, that Her Majesty does most readily approve and confirm you as their Speaker.
The Speaker of the House of Commons said: My Lords, I submit myself with all humility and gratitude to Her Majesty’s gracious Commands. It is now my duty, in the name of and on behalf of the Commons of the United Kingdom, to lay claim, by humble petition to Her Majesty, to all their ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, especially to freedom of speech in debate, to freedom from arrest, and to free access to Her Majesty whenever occasion shall arise, and that the most favourable construction shall be put upon all their proceedings. With regard to myself, I pray that, if in the discharge of my duties I shall inadvertently fall into any error, it may be imputed to myself alone, and not to Her Majesty’s most faithful Commons.
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
Mr Speaker, we have it further in Command to inform you that Her Majesty does most readily confirm all the rights and privileges which have ever been granted to or conferred upon the Commons by Her Majesty or any of her Royal predecessors. With respect to yourself, Sir, though Her Majesty is sensible that you stand in no need of such assurance, Her Majesty will ever place the most favourable construction upon your words and actions.
Mr Speaker and the Commons then retired.
Deaths of a Member and Former Members
The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
My Lords, I regret to inform the House of the deaths of the noble Lord, Lord Bagri, on 26 April, the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Swynnerton, on 7 May, the noble Lord, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior, on 8 May, and the noble Lord, Lord Bridges, on 27 May. On behalf of the House, I extend our condolences to the noble Lords’ families and friends.
Retirements of Members
The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
My Lords, I should also like to notify the House of the retirements with effect from 2 May of the noble Lord, Lord May of Oxford; with effect from 4 May of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Millett; with effect from 18 May of the noble Baroness, Lady Lockwood; with effect from 19 May of the noble Lord, Lord Hattersley; with effect from 8 June of the noble Marquess, Lord Salisbury; with effect from 9 June of the noble Lord, Lord Simon of Highbury; and with effect from 13 June of the noble Lord, Lord Walpole, pursuant to Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. On behalf of the House, I should like to thank the noble Lords for the service that they gave to the House.
Cessation of Membership
The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)
My Lords, I also have to notify the House that the noble Baroness, Lady Turner of Camden, and the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale, yesterday ceased to be Members of the House under Section 2 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014 by virtue of not attending any proceedings of the House during the Session 2016-17. On behalf of the House, I should like to thank the noble Lords for the service that they gave to the House.