I wonder whether the Minister remembers when this argument was last put forward. On that occasion we were, perhaps unusually, on opposite sides of the argument. I was recommending a form of care for the elderly, wrongly categorised as free, and one of the counterarguments was that there would be a—they did not use the word then—tsunami of pensioners crossing the border to Scotland. I think that it would have been more of a steady trickle which grew. It did not happen, although it was claimed that it would.
Scotland Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 26 March 2012.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Scotland Bill.
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