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 the 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 the right
honourable Sir Lindsay Hoyle to be their Speaker.
The Lord Chancellor
Let the Commons know that the Lords Commissioners desire their immediate attendance in this
House to hear the Commission read.
The Speaker of the House of Commons (Sir Lindsay Hoyle)
My Lords, I have to acquaint your Lordships that Her Majesty’s faithful Commons, in
obedience to the Royal Command, have, in the exercise of their undoubted rights and privileges,
proceeded to the election of a Speaker, and that their choice has fallen on me. I therefore
present myself at your Lordships’ Bar and submit myself with all humility for Her Majesty’s
gracious Approbation.
The Lord Chancellor
My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, it not being convenient to Her Majesty to
be personally present here at this time, a Commission has been issued under the Great
Seal, commanding us and several other Lords therein named to notify and declare Her Majesty’s
Approbation of the choice of Her faithful Commons of Sir Lindsay Hoyle to be their Speaker,
which Commission you will now hear read.
Reading Clerk
Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of
the Faith To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas We did lately for divers
difficult and pressing affairs concerning Us the state and defence of Our United Kingdom
and the Church ordain this Our present Parliament to begin and be holden at Our City of Westminster
the thirteenth day of June in the sixty-sixth year of Our Reign on which day Our said Parliament
was begun and holden and is there now holden And Whereas We have been informed that the
Lower House of Our said Parliament have lately made choice of Our beloved and faithful Rt
Hon Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle Knight, in the room of Our beloved and faithful John Simon
Bercow Esquire to be Speaker of the said Lower House of Our said Parliament of which choice
We are graciously pleased to approve and to allow and confirm the same And forasmuch as
for divers causes and considerations We cannot conveniently at this time be present in Our
Royal Person in Our said Parliament Know Ye that We trusting in the fidelity and care
of the Most Reverend Father in God and Our faithful Counsellor Justin Portal Archbishop
of Canterbury Primate of All England and Metropolitan Our well beloved and faithful Counsellors
Robert James Buckland Chancellor of Great Britain, Natalie Jessica Baroness Evans of
Bowes Park, Navnit Lord Dholakia, Igor Lord Judge, Angela Evans Baroness Smith of Basildon
and other Lords of Our Privy Council by the tenor of these Presents do give and grant
to them or any three or more of them full power in Our name to declare and notify Our
Royal Approbation of the choice of the said Lindsay Harvey Hoyle to be Speaker of the
said Lower House of Our said Parliament and to allow and confirm the said Lindsay Harvey
Hoyle to be Speaker of the said Lower House and to do all things in Our said Parliament
that may be necessary for declaring Our said Royal Approbation allowance and confirmation
of the said Lindsay Harvey Hoyle to be Speaker of the said Lower House of Our said Parliament
In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent Witness Ourself
at Westminster the fourth day of November in the sixty-eighth year of Our Reign by The
Queen herself signed with her own hand.
The Lord Chancellor
Sir Lindsay, we have it in command from Her Majesty to declare Her Majesty’s entire
confidence in your talents, diligence and sufficiency to fulfil the important duties
of the high office of Speaker of the House of Commons to which you have been chosen by
that House, and in obedience to the Commission which has been read and by virtue of the authority
therein contained, we do declare Her Majesty’s royal allowance and confirmation of you, Sir,
as Speaker of the House of Commons.
The Speaker of the House of Commons
My Lords, I submit myself with all humility and gratitude to Her Majesty’s royal will
and pleasure. I pray that if, in the discharge of my duties and in the maintenance of the
rights and privileges of the Commons House of Parliament, I should inadvertently fall
into error, it may be imputed to me alone and not to Her Majesty’s faithful Commons.