PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE
House of Commons - 18 May 2026 (Commons/Commons Chamber)
Debate Detail
Monday 18 May 2026
The House met at half-past Two o’clock
[Mr Speaker in the Chair]
The House met at half-past Two o’clock
[Mr Speaker in the Chair]
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Kirsty Blackman
Aberdeen North
Mr Speaker, two of my colleagues have been elected to Scotland’s national Parliament, so this is a bittersweet task for me.
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 Burgh Constituency of Aberdeen South, in the room of Stephen Flynn, who, since his election for the said Burgh Constituency, has been appointed to the Office of Steward and Bailiff of His Majesty’s Manor of Northstead in the County of York.—(Kirsty Blackman.)
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 Burgh Constituency of Aberdeen South, in the room of Stephen Flynn, who, since his election for the said Burgh Constituency, has been appointed to the Office of Steward and Bailiff of His Majesty’s Manor of Northstead in the County of York.—(Kirsty Blackman.)
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Mr Speaker
I never thought he would represent an area of Yorkshire, in England. [Laughter.]
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 Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, in the room of Stephen Patrick Gethins, who, since his election for the said County Constituency, has been appointed to the Office of Steward and Bailiff of His Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in the county of Buckingham.—(Kirsty Blackman.)
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 Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, in the room of Stephen Patrick Gethins, who, since his election for the said County Constituency, has been appointed to the Office of Steward and Bailiff of His Majesty’s Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in the county of Buckingham.—(Kirsty Blackman.)
Mr Speaker
That is even further south in England.
Committee of Selection
Ordered,
That Nesil Caliskan be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Deirdre Costigan be added.—(Gen Kitchen.)
Committee of Selection
Ordered,
That Nesil Caliskan be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Deirdre Costigan be added.—(Gen Kitchen.)
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