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- ↑ "Miss Joan Hall (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ↑ Reading Evening Post Feb 12 1975 p.1.
- Times Guide to the House of Commons February 1974
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
