Immigration Bill

My Lords, the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, is trying to introduce his amendment and I would ask tha...

I am most grateful for that intervention. Amendment 48 would exempt pregnant women from all charg...

My amendment is the second in this group and is the only one that deals with domestic violence. I...

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group—Amendments 59 and 63. I declare my interests, which...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 59, which stands in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Cum...

Clause 33 enables the Government to introduce a health levy. The noble Baroness, Lady Smith, said...

My Lords, I support the amendment on domestic violence in the name of my noble friend Lady Smith ...

My Lords, I support all these amendments—in particular, Amendment 63, to which I have added my na...

My Lords, this list of important amendments deals with the health of some very vulnerable people....

My Lords, I have listened carefully to the debate and support the general thrust of all the amend...

My Lords, this has been an important debate and I declare all my health interests. In speaking br...

My Lords, I should like to add a few words to what my noble friend Lady Barker has already said a...

Will the noble Lord give way? I appreciate his point, but if someone gives a patient the benefit ...

My Lords, it has been the case in the past that people who receive services to which they were no...

As I am sure my noble friend is aware, pregnancy goes on for nine months. It is not a short inter...

No, what I was saying is that I hope that the treatment would be given irrespective of the woman’...

My Lords, in listening to my noble friend Lord Patel’s concerns, which I share very strongly, abo...

My Lords, this has been a very full discussion about all aspects of healthcare and healthcare cha...

Does the Minister agree that they should be working together in maternity cases? It is health but...

I hope that I will be able to go on and talk about these matters when I address the specific amen...

I apologise for interrupting the Minister, and I am grateful for his response to my queries. I am...

If the Minister will allow me, before he answers the noble Baroness, can I make something clear? ...

Yes, that is exactly right. They will have the same access to health services as is available to ...

It does, but I wonder whether this is new policy thinking, because much in the Bill, particularly...

I do not think so. I think that the Bill’s provisions are purely about health service charging fo...

May I press the Minister just one step further, since this is quite a complex area? I think I am ...

They will have access currently, as the noble Baroness will understand. When they make an applica...

My Lords, what the Minister said in response to my question is clearly recorded, so we can all re...

It is a per annum charge, so if they are here for three years and are not a student it will be th...

On this point, I am sorry that we are pursuing the Minister, but can I take this one step further...

I suppose that at any boundary point, there are bound to be these sorts of situations occurring. ...

My Lords, I hesitate to add to the interruptions that the Minister has already suffered, but I th...

I thought that I had made that clear in answer to an earlier question, and I am just trying to fi...

Would the Minister be patient one more time? I thank him very much for giving way. Unless the gra...

I have to say that we are not looking to put people in that situation. Indeed, one would hope—thi...

Amendment 63, which I tabled, proposes four new subsections. Proposed new subsection (1A) states:...

My noble friend is very prescient because I was just about to turn to Amendment 63. It is excepti...

I am sorry to intervene on the noble Lord; I know that noble Lords are anxious to get on to the n...

My Lords, I remember that the noble Baroness painted this scenario and I understood it well enoug...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for choosing to give the lengthy reply rather than the short one. ...