Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill
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649 cc339-365 Session
2017-19Legislative stage
Second readingChamber / Committee
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Proceeding contributions
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.
This is a short Bill, with six clau...
A few years ago, I presented a private Member’s Bill on the recovery of costs under the European ...
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My hon. Friend makes an important point. Perhaps I should declare that, when I was a Back Bencher...
Of course, the Opposition welcome any efforts to safeguard healthcare for the estimated 190,000 U...
I welcome this paving measure, which I think will give significant comfort to many thousands of m...
Clearly, Brexit threatens the loss of reciprocal healthcare arrangements for millions in Scotland...
I welcome the Government bringing forward the Bill. This is clearly part of a suite of legislatio...
Does my hon. Friend accept, though, that the majority of the difference is due to the disproporti...
That is a factor, but I still think that a 10:1 ratio is quite high. London has the second-larges...
We have heard many comforting words from the Government today, but there is nothing comforting in...
I will be supporting the Bill today. I am only sorry it is necessary. There is no version of Brex...
The Royal College of Nursing has been on to me as well, expressing serious concern about what wil...
That is, indeed, a question that I have been addressing. What will happen to expats in Europe? Wh...
I have now to announce the result of today’s deferred Division. In respect of the question relati...
It is, as always, a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston). She s...
I want to make a brief but enthusiastic speech in support of the Bill. It is a pleasure to follow...
Does my hon. Friend accept that at the moment people do not need to have health insurance as they...
I completely understand, and to a degree accept, that point, except that I perhaps have more fait...
I intervene on an extremely important point. The EHIC does give reciprocal care, but it is not th...
I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. I want to conclude my speech by saying that I am op...
It is a real pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall North (Eddie Hughes). Like ...
I want to speak briefly in support of the Bill. There are 190,000 UK expats living in other parts...
I am grateful for this opportunity to close the debate on behalf of Labour. It is clear that Memb...
With the leave of the House, I thank everyone who has spoken in the debate. This is a short and s...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and I would like to take advantage of his offer, but I would als...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that. Understandably, much of the debate today has fo...
Just for clarification, is the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice still a red line in ...
The issue in terms of the ECJ will be dealt with in other areas of the withdrawal agreement discu...