Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 37 and 39 in this group, which are in my name. The noble Lo...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Marks, and everything he said....

Hear, hear!

Thank you. I wonder what the noble Baronesses, Lady Blackwood and Lady Manzoor, and the noble Lor...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord that our parliamentary processes for dealing with statutory...

My Lords, it is important to realise that statutory instruments are a very useful way of dealing ...

I was going to intervene in the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Butler, but this applies equally h...

If a defect was pointed out in a statutory instrument, I would consider that a matter for stoppin...

My Lords, it is perhaps worth mentioning Amendment 28 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Patel, ...

I thank my Convenor, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, for bringing attention to my amendmen...

For completeness, in relation to Amendment 28, which would remove subsection (3), it should be re...

My Lords, I am not too sure about that because the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committ...

But subsection (3) is clear: this is a power to amend primary legislation,

“for the purpose...

The noble Lord, Lord Lansley, raises an interesting point. It is something that should be clarifi...

My Lords, this has been a very powerful and useful debate to have as a precursor to the one we ar...

It seems to me that the situation is exactly the same with amendments to primary legislation. Gov...

The noble Lord and I absolutely agree about that, and the noble Lord is quite right. I am not say...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks, for Amendments 26, 29, 30 and 31, the noble Lord, L...

The Minister has been very helpful and said that she will consider the points raised. Am I raisin...

The noble Lord is right to expect that I will take these questions away and consider them.

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for assuring us that she is listening to the critici...

Moved by

Lord Lansley

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“( ) A stat...

I am grateful for the opportunity to move Amendment 27, which is linked with Amendment 41. Noble ...

My Lords, I will make a couple of apologies. The first is to my noble friend Lady Thornton. She i...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 34. Reflecting concerns about the wide scope of regulations,...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 35 and 36 in this group, which are in my name. What ...

My Lords, I will speak briefly on my noble friend Lord Lansley’s Amendments 27 and 41. Noble Lord...

Listening to the noble Lord, Lord O’Shaughnessy, I reflected on our debates on Tuesday. I think h...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Lansley for Amendments 27 and 41, the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, all these powers exist at the moment, as do all these arrangements. However, the powers...

For the implementation of international healthcare arrangements, these powers exist within EU leg...

I am grateful to my noble friend and to all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate....

Moved by

Baroness Humphreys

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My Lords, I apologise for not being able to take part on Second Reading.

This group contain...

My Lords, I apologise that I was not able to speak at Second Reading. I shall speak in support of...

My Lords, in following the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace, I strongly support Amendment 42 ...

Oh!

I resigned. However, she is very welcome and I wish her all the best.

What worries me about...

My Lords, it may be useful if I reassure the Committee in response to the comments of the noble L...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Why, then, are the Welsh Health Minister and the ...

The different Governments have clearly taken different approaches. The noble Lord will know that ...

My Lords, I want to endorse everything that my noble and learned friend Lord Wallace of Tankernes...

My Lords, I am moving Amendment 42 in the name of my noble friend Lady Thornton and the noble and...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Jolly and Lady Humphreys, for Amendments 30...

I am grateful to the Minister, and reassured by what she has said. Perhaps I will withdraw the to...

Part of the reason that this amendment has come at this stage is because it has been part of a ne...

I acknowledge that the Minister said that an amendment will be brought forward. That is very welc...

We need to bring forward the clause which we have agreed with the devolved Administrations. It is...

I thank the Minister for her clarification and the excellent news that the memorandum of understa...

Moved by

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

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My Lords, for years many of us have believed that the procedures for considering statutory instru...

My Lords, I listened carefully to the strong arguments put forward by the noble Lord, Lord Marks,...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks, for suggesting in Amendment 32 an approach to the i...

My Lords, I do not need to reflect very hard to withdraw what was plainly a probing amendment. I ...