Okay there are certain system preference shortcuts that must be interfering as they did with next selection and previous selection in auditions.
I have disabled switch to desktop 1 in Mission control shortcuts which is control 1. But control2, 3 and 4 do not work.
In commands interestingly the command was duplicated for keywords so I deleted the duplicates but it made no difference.
Something conflicting or over riding it most annoying of the chaps at Apple I must say.