Healthcare (International Arrangements) Bill
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Bills
House of Lords
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Bills
House of Lords
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
1: Clause 1, page 1, line 3, leave out “outside the United...
My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 1 and speak to consequential Amendments 2, 12, 13, 14, 45, 46 ...
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My Lords, I thank the Minister for her efforts to improve the Bill and her courtesy in accommodat...
My Lords, I have in my name Amendment 4, which has a great deal in common with the other amendmen...
My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Thornton who has done a splendid job in dealing with thi...
My Lords, I too support the amendments in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, and my ...
My Lords, I cannot agree with these amendments. As we pointed out during the progression of the B...
May I interrupt the noble Baroness?
No, let me finish. The Bill will not replace or limit the prerogative power to enter into interna...
My Lords, this is an enabling Bill and no more. In a letter to the chairman of the Delegated Powe...
My Lords, both the noble Lord, Lord Ribeiro, and the noble Baroness, Lady Chisholm of Owlpen, are...
My Lords, I too find this amendment imperative. The Bill as it stands has some exciting prospects...
My Lords, I am glad to follow the last two speakers; they have eloquently made the case for suppo...
My Lords, although I do not agree with it, a lot of scepticism about the scope of the Bill has be...
Please allow me to intervene; I am afraid I cannot stand up to do so.
Is the noble Lord sug...
I think the noble Baroness knows that that is not what I am saying. We will miss out on the oppor...
My Lords, I am privileged to follow my noble friend Lord O’Shaughnessy, and I am sure that Peers ...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Thornton and Lady Jolly, and
I thank the Minister for her remarks and for the attention that she has paid to this matter all t...
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
2: Clause 2, page 1, line 8, leave out “outside the United...
Moved by
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames
3: Clause 2, page 1, line 10, at end insert—<...
My Lords, as I should have done at the beginning of the first group, I thank the Minister for her...
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks, for his exposition, which saves me from exploring yet again t...
My Lords, we have here a new example of constitution-making. We have now got rid of Henry VIII in...
My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge; he has been totally co...
My Lords, I think that the noble Lord is right in saying that we are establishing a precedent, bu...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks, for tabling Amendment 3 and the noble Baroness, Lad...
My Lords, I shall seek leave to withdraw my amendment, because I feel very much under pressure fr...
Tabled by
Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames
4: Clause 2, page 1, line 11, leave out subs...
Amendment 4 is, I think, consequential on Amendment 1.
I am not sure that Amendment 4 is entirely consequential, so it is probably better if I do not mo...
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
5: Clause 2, page 1, line 11, leave out “, for example”
I listened very carefully to the Minister and I am not convinced, partly because the regulations ...
Does the noble Baroness agree that, with “for example”, you may not be extending the jurisdiction...
I hate to disagree with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, but the words “for example” expan...
Moved by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
6: Clause 2, page 2, line 1, leave out “o...
Moved by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
9: Clause 2, page 2, line 8, at end inser...
My Lords, the Bill’s delegated powers and their global application have been a source of spirited...
My Lords, my noble friend will forgive me if I ask for a point of clarification. If Amendment 9 i...
I thank the Minister for tabling this sunset clause; she is quite right to do so. I had not thoug...
I thank my noble friend Lord Lansley for his question. This power enables a unilateral scheme, so...
Tabled by
Lord Judge
10: Clause 2, page 2, line 8, at end insert—
“( ) No regul...
Given the result of the Division earlier this afternoon, I do not intend to move this amendment. ...
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
11: Clause 3, page 2, line 16, leave out “outside the Unit...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
14: Clause 4, page 2, line 38, at end insert—
“( ) ...
My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 14, and your Lordships will be pleased to hear that I will be b...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for giving the House the opportuni...
My Lords, the noble Lord used the expression, “giving force”. If those principles are given force...
My Lords, I had amendments that the Minister responded to at the Dispatch Box and I accepted her ...
My Lords, I added my name to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Jolly and La...
My Lords, that was exactly the kind of robust response from the Minister that I was hoping for. I...
Moved by
Baroness Manzoor
15: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause—
...
My Lords, in Committee, the noble Baronesses, Lady Thornton, Lady Jolly, and Lady Humphreys, tabl...
My Lords, I support this important amendment, to which I have added my name on behalf of these Be...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for introducing the amendment and for the implicit ...
My Lords, I signed the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, in Committee. ...
My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Wheeler and Lady Humphreys, for their support for th...
Moved by
Baroness Manzoor
16: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause—
...
My Lords, financial reporting in the context of the Bill has already been the subject of debate i...
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
17: After Clause 4, leave out subsection (2) and insert—
My Lords, this is a probing amendment to Amendment 16. I am seeking reassurance about the content...
My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton. Without repeating o...
Further to that point, I think following the list exactly may be the most difficult thing for the...
Under current arrangements, the National Audit Office is able to tell us exactly the costs of the...
The costs are exactly what the Government are proposing to report on. The Australian agreement, f...
I am sorry to prolong the point but, surely, we would be clocking up those costs in the NHS, even...
The Minister may wish to advise on this. I understand that we probably do not—because there is no...
I am really sorry to prolong this point but, if we are trying to make sure that new reciprocal ar...
I am making a simpler point: it is no good asking for information that is not collected. There is...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for her amendment and to the noble ...
I thank the Minister. I said from the outset that this was a probing amendment and I therefore be...
Moved by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
18: Clause 5, page 3, line 38, leave out ...
My Lords, I now turn directly to the Henry VIII powers of the Bill. As noble Lords know well, the...
My Lords, I have already spoken warmly about the efforts by the noble Baroness, Lady Blackwood, a...
Perhaps I may add a few words to those of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge. I was particula...
I tabled an amendment in this group. First, I join the noble and learned Lords and all noble Lord...
I thank the noble and learned Lords for their support for our amendments to Clause 5 and the remo...
Moved by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
19: Clause 5, page 3, line 43, after “law...
Moved by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
20: Clause 5, page 3, line 45, leave out ...
I beg to move.
Amendment 21 (to Amendment 20)
Tabled by
Baroness Thornton
21: Clause 5, leave out ““this Act which amend, repeal or...
I thank the Minister for her explanation, which of course I accept. I am sorry I did not speak to...
Moved by
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
24: Clause 5, page 4, line 3, leave out “...
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
27: Clause 6, page 4, line 15, leave out “International” a...
Moved by
Baroness Thornton
28: In the Title, line 1, leave out “outside the United Ki...