I could not have been clearer. There is the confirmation that we have the power, we would use the power, and the civil service will give effect to it.
Let me respond directly to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Fareham? She spoke powerfully, as she always does, and I always listen carefully to what she says. She set out a number of cases in which medical reasons were cited in court. Medical arguments were presented that, as she said, frustrated the will of this place. In fact, section 39 of the Illegal Migration Act—the very Act that she took through this place with my right hon. Friend the Member for Newark—addresses that exact point about medical records and medical evidence.
The following are examples of harm that do not constitute serious and irreversible harm. The first is:
“where the standard of healthcare available to”
the person
“in the relevant country…is lower than”
that available in the United Kingdom. It is there in the statute, in the Bill that we passed last year.
The second example is:
“Any pain or distress resulting from a medical treatment that is available to”
a person
“in the United Kingdom not being available to”
a person
“in the relevant country”.
That is not, does not and will not constitute serious and irreversible harm.
My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Fareham is right to be concerned about that, but those concerns have been addressed and met in the legislation we have passed, and in the legislation that is mirrored in the Bill.
Let me turn to the important provisions of clause 8. I will directly address the hon. Member for Belfast East (Gavin Robinson) and his submissions in response to new clause 3. Nothing in the Windsor framework, including article 2, or in the withdrawal agreement affects the Bill’s proper operation on a UK-wide basis. Any suggestion to the contrary would be to imply that the scope of the rights, safeguards and equality of opportunity chapter of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement is far more expansive than was ever intended.