Members Sworn

– in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 May 1997.

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The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law:

  • Anne Begg, Aberdeen, South
  • Right honourable John Morris, QC, Aberavon
  • David Gordon Clelland, esquire, Tyne Bridge
  • Right honourable Michael Ray Dibden Heseltine, Henley
  • Joseph Kevin McNamara, esquire, Kingston upon Hull, North
  • Jeffrey William Rooker, esquire, Birmingham, Perry Barr
  • Joseph William Ashton, esquire, Bassetlaw
  • Allan Ralph Rogers, esquire, Rhondda
  • George Edward Howarth, esquire, Knowsley, North and Sefton, East
  • Peter Benjamin Mandelson, esquire, Hartlepool
  • Right honourable Sir Nicholas Walter Lyell, QC, North-East Bedfordshire
  • Right honourable David John Denzil Davies, Llanelli
  • Angela Eagle, Wallasey
  • Edward Rowlands, esquire, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
  • Michael John Mates, esquire, East Hampshire
  • Anthony David Steen, esquire, Totnes
  • Dr. Michael Clark, Rayleigh
  • Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, esquire, Islington, North
  • Menzies Campbell, esquire, CBE, QC, North-East Fife
  • Dr. Lewis George Moonie, Kirkcaldy
  • Diane Julie Abbott, Hackney, North and Stoke Newington
  • David Charles Jamieson, esquire, Plymouth, Devonport
  • Helen Lawrie, Mrs. Liddell, Airdrie and Shotts
  • Hilary Jane Armstrong, North-West Durham
  • Ian Colin Taylor, esquire, MBE, Esher and Walton
  • David Wilshire, esquire, Spelthorne
  • Edward O'Hara, esquire, Knowsley, South
  • Brian Harold Donohoe, esquire, Cunninghame, South
  • Janet, Mrs. Anderson, Rossendale and Darwen
  • Robert John Blizzard, esquire, Waveney
  • Andrew Stuart Mackinlay, esquire, Thurrock
  • Kevin John Barron, esquire, Rother Valley
  • Llinos, Mrs. Golding, Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Tony McWalter, esquire, Hemel Hempstead
  • Terence Henry Rooney, esquire, Bradford. North
  • Christine McCafferty, Calder Valley
  • Mohammad Sarwar, esquire, Glasgow, Govan
  • Robert Laxton, esquire, Derby, North
  • Seamus Mallon, esquire, Newry and Armagh
  • Edward Kevin McGrady, esquire, South Down
  • Dr. Alan Wynne Williams, Carmarthen, East and Dinefwr
  • Nigel Christopher Waterson, esquire, Eastbourne
  • Andrew John Bernard Rowe, esquire, Faversham and Mid-Kent
  • John Ernest Townend, esquire, East Yorkshire
  • Paul Anthony Truswell, esquire, Pudsey
  • John Timothy Grogan, esquire, Selby
  • Dr. Liam Fox, Woodspring
  • Christopher Michael Leslie, esquire, Shipley
  • Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo, esquire, South Suffolk
  • David James Christian Faber, esquire, Westbury
  • William Nigel Paul Cash, esquire, Stone
  • Fabian Hamilton, esquire, Leeds, North-East
  • Kenneth Robert Livingstone, esquire, Brent, East
  • Marsha Singh, esquire, Bradford, West
  • Colin Pickthall, esquire, West Lancashire
  • Richard Beecroft Allan, esquire, Sheffield, Hallam
  • Kerry Patrick Pollard, esquire, St. Albans
  • Caroline Alice, Mrs. Spelman, Meriden
  • James Gerald Douglas Howarth, esquire, Aldershot
  • Humfrey Jonathon Malins, esquire, Woking
  • John Robert Cryer, esquire, Hornchurch
  • Michael Cathel Fallon, esquire, Sevenoaks
  • Michael Roy Wood, esquire, Batley and Spen
  • James Charles Cann, esquire, Ipswich
  • George Philip Willis, esquire, Harrogate and Knaresborough
  • Gerald Edward Bermingham, esquire, St. Helens, South
  • Colin Edward Breed, esquire, South-East Cornwall
  • Damian Howard Green, esquire, Ashford
  • James Whiteside Gray, esquire, North Wiltshire
  • Wyvill Richard Nicholls Raynsford, esquire, Greenwich and Woolwich
  • Anthony Brian Baldry, esquire, Banbury
  • Dr. Evan Harris, Oxford, West and Abingdon
  • Claire Curtis-Tansley, Crosby
  • George Turner, esquire, North-West Norfolk
  • Cynog Glyndwr Dafis, esquire, Ceredigion

  • Right honourable Michael Hugh Meacher, Oldham, West and Royton
  • Christopher Shaun Ruane, esquire, Vale of Clwyd
  • Alan Campbell, esquire, Tynemouth
  • John Patrick Aubone Burnett, esquire, Torridge and West Devon
  • Steven John Webb, esquire, Northavon
  • Ashok Kumar, esquire, Middlesbrough, South and Cleveland, East
  • Maria Eagle, Liverpool, Garston
  • Rosalie Winterton, Doncaster, Central
  • Kali Carol Jean Mountford, Colne Valley
  • Brian Iddon, esquire, Bolton, South-East
  • Gareth Thomas, esquire, Clwyd, West
  • Ivan Lewis, esquire, Bury, South
  • Gordon Marsden, esquire, Blackpool, South
  • Alan Keen, esquire, Feltham and Heston
  • David Neil Kidney, esquire, Stafford
  • Dr. Ian Gibson, Norwich, North
  • Geraldine Smith, Morecambe and Lunesdale
  • Michael Kevin Moore, esquire, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
  • Jacqueline Margaret, Mrs. Ballard, Taunton
  • Sir Robert Hill Smith, baronet, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
  • Teresa Jane Kingham, Gloucester
  • Diana Mary Organ, Forest of Dean
  • Anthony David Wright, esquire, Great Yarmouth
  • Angela Evans Smith, Basildon
  • Clive Stanley Efford, esquire, Eltham
  • David Elliott Drew, esquire, Stroud
  • Roger Mark Casale, esquire, Wimbledon
  • Helen Rosemary Brinton, Peterborough
  • Andrew King, esquire, Rugby and Kenilworth
  • Betty Helena, Mrs. Williams, Conwy
  • Henry Baird McLeish, esquire, Central Fife
  • Constance Ann, Mrs. Cryer, Keighley
  • Dawn Primarolo, Bristol, South
  • Stephen Hesford, esquire, Wirral, West
  • Michael Jabez Foster, esquire, Hastings and Rye
  • Michael John Foster, esquire, Worcester
  • Janet Elizabeth Ann Dean, Burton
  • Michael Thomas Hall, esquire, Weaver Vale
  • Geoffrey Robinson, esquire, Coventry, North-West
  • Karen Patricia Buck, Regent's Park and Kensington, North
  • Peter Charles Stephen Bradley, esquire, The Wrekin
  • Stephen James McCabe, esquire, Birmingham, Hall Green
  • James Dobbin, esquire, Heywood and Middleton
  • Graham Eric Stringer, esquire, Manchester, Blackley
  • Keith Ernest Darvill, esquire, Upminster
  • Patrick Hall, esquire, Bedford
  • Derek Murray Wyatt, esquire, Sittingbourne and Sheppey
  • Alan Arthur Hurst, esquire, Braintree

  • Andrew Henry George, esquire, St. Ives
  • John Ramsay Swinney, esquire, North Tayside
  • Alastair Neil Morgan, esquire, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
  • Barry John Sheerman, esquire, Huddersfield
  • Mark Fisher, esquire, Stoke-on-Trent, Central
  • Eric Lionel Clarke, esquire, Midlothian
  • John Henry Hayes, esquire, South Holland and The Deepings
  • David Leslie Taylor, esquire, North-West Leicestershire
  • Andrew John Reed, esquire, Loughborough
  • Dari Jean Taylor, Stockton, South
  • Philip Ian Hope, esquire, Corby
  • David Leonard Watts, esquire, St. Helens, North
  • Joseph Edward Benton, esquire, Bootle
  • Helen Mary Southworth, Warrington, South
  • Martin Bell, esquire, Tatton
  • Nigel David Jones, esquire, Cheltenham
  • Oliver Letwin, esquire, West Dorset
  • Peter Temple-Morris, esquire, Leominster
  • Elizabeth Marion Blackman, Erewash
  • Laura Jean, Mrs. Moffatt, Crawley
  • John Yorke Denham, esquire, Southampton, Itchen
  • Julia Kate Drown, South Swindon
  • Yvette Cooper, Pontefract and Castleford
  • John William Patrick Smith, esquire, Vale of Glamorgan
  • Michael John Gapes, esquire, Ilford, South
  • David Gifford Leathes Prior, esquire, commonly called the honourable David Gifford Leathes Prior, North Norfolk
  • Nigel Griffiths, esquire, Edinburgh, South
  • Jonathan Rowland Shaw, esquire, Chatham and Aylesford
  • Vernon Rodney Coaker, esquire, Gedling
  • James Murphy, esquire, Eastwood
  • David John Stewart, esquire, Inverness, East, Nairn and Lochaber
  • Sandra Currie Osborne, Ayr
  • Harry Michael Cohen, esquire, Leyton and Wanstead
  • Russell Leslie Brown, esquire, Dumfries
  • Malcolm Kemp Savidge, esquire, Aberdeen, North
  • Dr. Peter Brand, Isle of Wight
  • Robert Edward Russell, esquire, Colchester
  • Peter Charles Snape, esquire, West Bromwich, East
  • Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt, esquire, Reigate
  • Elfyn Llwyd, esquire, Meirionnydd Nant Conwy
  • Tom Levitt, esquire, High Peak
  • Desmond Browne, esquire, Kilmarnock and Loudoun
  • Lynda Margaret Clark, QC, Edinburgh, Pentlands
  • Rosemary McKenna, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth
  • Andrew Robert George Robathan, esquire, Blaby
  • Right honourable David Philip Heathcoat-Amory, Wells
  • Archibald John Norman, esquire, Tunbridge Wells
  • David Stanley Borrow, esquire, South Ribble

  • Robert John Walter, esquire, North Dorset
  • Sally Curtis Keeble, Northampton, North
  • George Galloway, esquire, Glasgow, Kelvin
  • Jane Patricia Griffiths, Reading, East
  • Martin John Salter, esquire, Reading, West
  • Julie Kirkbride, Bromsgrove
  • Valerie Davey, Bristol, West
  • John Derek Twigg, esquire, Halton
  • Dennis Turner, esquire, Wolverhampton, South-East
  • Kenneth Purchase, esquire, Wolverhampton, North-East
  • Bowen Wells, esquire, Hertford and Stortford
  • Anthony Louis Banks, esquire, West Ham
  • Siobhain Ann McDonagh, Mitcham and Morden
  • Right honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell, Mrs. Bottomley, South-West Surrey
  • George Edward Mudie, esquire, Leeds, East
  • Alan James Carter Duncan, esquire, Rutland and Melton
  • Christopher Robert Chope, esquire, Christchurch

Sitting suspended.

On resuming— Richard George Caborn, esquire, Sheffield, Central

  • Peter John Viggers, esquire, Gosport
  • David Lindsay Willetts, esquire, Havant
  • Shona Mclsaac, Cleethorpes
  • Ruth Maria Kelly, Bolton, West
  • Frank Roy, esquire, Motherwell and Wishaw
  • Ross Frederick Cranston, esquire, Dudley, North
  • David Michael Chaytor, esquire, Bury, North
  • Anne, Mrs. McGuire, Stirling