Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

My Lords, before addressing the amendments in my name and the names of my noble and learned frien...

My Lords, this should be Brexit legislation. If it were, in accordance with the withdrawal agreem...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her letter, but I rather feel that it posed as many questions ...

My Lords, first, I apologise to the Committee for not having been able to speak at Second Reading...

One can see why, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lad...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to welcome the new noble Baroness to the Front Bench and I echo ...

My Lords, I associate myself entirely with the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Lisvane. We have b...

My Lords, first, I welcome the Minister. I will not add to her burdens by trying to find another ...

Perhaps noble Lords will allow me to follow the noble Baroness, given that she made specific refe...

I am not sure that the noble Lord, Lord O’Shaughnessy, is helping the Minister in his exposition....

My Lords, the reason is that the statute by which we are able to strike reciprocal healthcare agr...

I have the greatest respect for the noble Lord, Lord O’Shaughnessy, who we feel did a great job w...

That is a separate issue. As I said at the beginning, the issue here is actually in two parts. Th...

I take the noble Lord’s personal assurances on that. Who could disagree with what he has just sai...

I take the noble Baroness’s point but the critical thing here is that the powers set out in the B...

My Lords, this is a compendious group of amendments to a Bill that may appear simple but is made ...

My Lords, I assure the Minister that my comments, which are very much in support of the noble and...

My Lords, I believe it falls to me to be a back-marker. I can be brief, not least because I agree...

Does the noble Lord accept that all Parliament can do to treaties is withhold agreement in the Ho...

The noble Lord invites me to go on about a subject that I anticipate Report stage of the Trade Bi...

My Lords, I will comment on a couple of points from a political perspective. We have heard from a...

My Lords, it is not often that one rises to speak for the first time in Committee in the presence...

The Minister’s colleague in the Commons said exactly that: it was a trade Bill.

He may have said that, but I have clarified this point with the department, the Secretary of Stat...

Do we have one with America?

There would be significant challenges to a reciprocal healthcare agreement with the United States...

I congratulate the Minister on her summing up and answers. As these things go, it was absolutely ...

I apologise to my noble friend that I was not here earlier, due to travel difficulties—

Oh!

It is in order to ask a question during Committee.

As much as I admire and love my noble friend, he should probably not intervene at this moment, bu...

Moved by

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

4: Clause 2, page 1, line 11, leave out subse...

My Lords, this group contains two amendments. Amendment 4 is in my name and the names of the nobl...

The noble Lord has quite rightly referred to the existing countries—Australia, Bosnia-Herzegovina...

My Lords, I am grateful for that intervention: I did not know the facts about the involvement of ...

I am sorry, but I am getting a bit confused here. By what mechanism does the Bill, which provides...

It simply does: you can make a healthcare arrangement with countries outside the United Kingdom i...

I do not mean to badger the noble Lord, but this is simply not true. The power in the Bill relate...

That does not, as I understand it, prevent the Government offering other countries access to the ...

Clause 3(b) concerns,

“healthcare provided in the United Kingdom, payments in respect of wh...

I object to what the noble Lord has said: I am not involved in private healthcare in any sense. N...

My Lords, I make no aspersions on either the motivation or the interests of the noble Lord, Lord ...

With respect to the noble Lord, we are having the debate now. I have read the Bill, and reading i...

It is right that Clause 1 allows the Secretary of State to make payments out, but the point is th...

This is a reciprocal healthcare Bill, after all. Let us separate out the point that the noble Lor...

The noble Lord makes the point that whatever innocuous motivations may be expressed by Ministers ...

The noble Lord, Lord Marks, is very kind in giving way. It may be helpful if I clarify. The Bill ...

That is a helpful intervention. It brings me back to the point that all that Parliament can do un...

My Lords, I point out that if Amendment 4 is agreed, I cannot call Amendment 5 by reason of pre-e...

My Lords, I listened to the first part of the debate today, and I add my welcome to the Minister ...

My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, and accept his assurance, which was given ...

My Lords, I intend to speak to Amendment 10 in my name. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks, and t...

My Lords, within this grouping I support Amendment 10, spoken to just now by the noble Baroness, ...

I offer my thanks to the noble Lord, Lord Marks, the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, and my noble ...

The noble Baroness said that no money was exchanged in the case of New Zealand and Australia. So ...

It is done through waiver agreements.

Longer-term rights would also be guaranteed for those...

The noble Baroness said that this was done through waiver agreements. If they work through waiver...

We have relatively simple agreements with these countries that do not allow for the level of comp...

I am quite happy to accept that this may be a faulty amendment—but that is allowed in Committee. ...

Under a withdrawal deal, reciprocal healthcare is protected. Under the no-deal scenario with memb...

My Lords, I propose to withdraw the amendment at this stage. We have had a lively debate, and I a...

Moved by

Baroness Wheeler

6: Clause 2, page 2, line 3, at end insert—

“(2A) Reg...

My Lords, I am moving Amendment 6 in the name of my noble friend Lady Thornton. The amendment wou...

My Lords, I will speak to the amendment in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton....

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 9 in this group, which, as the noble Baroness, Lady Wheeler, ...

My Lords, there is very little I can add to what my friend the noble Earl, Lord Dundee, said. If ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Wheeler, for moving Amendment 6 in the names of the no...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions. It is hard to see how the ECJ will not have some kin...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

7: Clause 2, page 2, line 3, at end insert—

“( ) Regulati...

My Lords, perhaps it is my turn now to try to mark the Government’s card on the use of these powe...

Or a backstop.

Yes. It might have been part of the backstop agreement in the old days, I do not know.

The ...

My Lords, it is encouraging that on this occasion the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, and I are on the ...

My Lords, in this group, I support Amendments 18 and 19, which were addressed by the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, at Second Reading I spoke about Northern Ireland. All noble Lords will be aware that th...

My Lords, I shall briefly reply to the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Jolly. I think the nob...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group. They go to the very heart of the human aspect o...

I shall follow the theme expounded by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and talk about Northern Ir...

I offer my thanks to my noble friend Lord Lansley for his Amendments 7 and 8, to the noble Barone...

Would the noble Baroness mind repeating the part of her answer that referred to overlapping compe...

I simply said that two amendments on devolution have been tabled, so we will be discussing that i...

I am very grateful to my noble friend. Her response has given reassurance. She is quite right to ...