Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2018

I am talking about the United Kingdom, so I am talking about the devolved Administrations as well...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

My Lords, as the Minister said, for the last three years, under the Immigration Act 2014 an annua...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for explaining this order and I wholeheartedly agree with the nobl...

My Lords, the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium is deeply concerned about this order, whi...

My Lords, I rise to speak in support of the amendment moved by my noble friend Lord Rosser, parti...

My Lords, may I recount a story to the House from several years ago? I think it was around the ti...

My Lords, in the absence of the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, I feel brave enough to rise to my feet....

My Lords, it has been an interesting debate for me because other noble Lords have argued from poi...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate.

First, in virtually e...

The point is, as the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, said so well, that all those other jurisdictions...

I will give an example: if I went to America and worked there, I would pay taxation but would als...

It is completely different.

I think we will have a disagreement on a point of principle, but if the noble Lord could let me o...

The Minister is moving on to another issue, but could we stick with children for a moment? A numb...

If you intend to be here temporarily, you apply for a temporary visa and you are captured by the ...

But the point is that, to get leave to remain, people have to pay over 10 years and, as noble Lor...

My Lords, in estimating the charge, we estimated the cost of providing healthcare to someone who ...

I am sorry to push it, and I promise not to do so again, but a number of noble Lords have pointed...

I can certainly undertake to take this away and provide for the noble Baroness and other noble Lo...

Before the noble Baroness returns to her response, I want to say that it is not appropriate to co...

My Lords, I gave the example of America precisely because we have a national health service. Were...

My point was that we are not taking into account the wider implications of immigrants paying into...

As I said earlier, if I went to America and paid my taxes, I would still need health insurance on...

You are not going to convince us.

No.

I do not want to prolong the agony for the Minister, but the point about America is that the tax ...

Temporary immigrants have to pay the healthcare charge, but anyone with indefinite leave to remai...

I cannot bear that assertion being put on the record without being refuted: American taxation pay...

I am glad to have a former Health Secretary standing behind me to put noble Lords—and me—absolute...

Will the Minister come back to the point I raised about the inadequacy of the information we have...

I will. I will not give him an adequate response, but I will tell him why; if that is okay.