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HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Third sitting)What impact do you think that will have on labour mobility? Martin Hoare: It will severely restrict labour mobility. It will make it very difficult for employers to know whom they…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Third sitting)Q How confident are you that the Home Office will be able to scale up the existing immigration scheme that applies to non-EEA nationals to meet the needs of individuals and…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Third sitting)My question has been asked, Sir David.14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I would like to follow up on Afzal Khan’s questions about social security. I think you said that one way in which the Government might want to use the powers in clause 5 would…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q For those who have contributed to the British social security system and then have expectations as pensioners? Professor Peers: Yes.14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Finally, what do you think will be the impact on labour market mobility of the possibility of different social security co-ordination arrangements in the future? Professor Peers:…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Those who are more highly paid, and therefore expect a higher pension, might think about it more as well. Professor Peers: Of course that is a possibility, although I am sure…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q May I ask you about the provisions in the Bill relating to social security? What are your views about the powers in clause 5? Professor Smismans: They are very wide. These are…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q The statutory instruments that you are talking about are statutory instruments that the Government have already laid under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. That is…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q That would give the Government the opportunity to demand information or make assumptions about your status if you could not supply that information. Professor Smismans: Yes,…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Given that the Government are already laying statutory instruments under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, what further concerns do you have about the additional…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q So it does not make the situation better and it may be making it even more punitive. Professor Smismans: Yes, it makes things worse, in that the Bill obviously removes the free…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you have any concerns about the power that this Bill would confer on Ministers to make different provisions in relation to social security for different categories of…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Can I ask you about the provisions in the Bill that relate to social security co-ordination? Clause 5, again, gives the Government Henry VIII powers to modify the social…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Is there a difference when delegated legislation is used to remove rights currently enjoyed by people who are already here, and when it is a matter of the application of those…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I guess it would be possible to constrain the scope of what could be amended in delegated legislation more tightly than the Bill does. Joe Owen: Yes, that is certainly an option.14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Very difficult to do what? Kalba Meadows: To move back to the UK.14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q The explanatory notes also suggest that regulations could be made under the clause to make different provision for different categories of persons. Do you have any views on that…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Does that worry your members, or would it worry them if they thought about it? James Porter: If I had crop to pick and someone came, unless I was compelled to make background…14 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)Q How will your members know whether somebody is in their first three months or whether they have already been here for three months working for another employer? James Porter:…14 Feb 2019