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HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillWith respect to the noble Lord, we are having the debate now. I have read the Bill, and reading it out does not make his point. The Bill simply defines what a healthcare agreement…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillI do not mean to badger the noble Lord, but this is simply not true. The power in the Bill relates to payments for healthcare outside the United Kingdom. Governments make…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHonda in SwindonMy Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests as UK co-chair of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group. We tend to see everything through the prism of the Brexit…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillIn so far as the noble Baroness has referred to Amendment 43, which we might otherwise reach on Thursday, I completely understand the motivation, which we have seen elsewhere, to…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillYes. It might have been part of the backstop agreement in the old days, I do not know. The second limb of Amendment 8 is to say that although care is free to NHS patients in the…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillMy Lords, I believe it falls to me to be a back-marker. I can be brief, not least because I agreed with much of what my noble friend Lord O’Shaughnessy had to say. However, it…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillMy Lords, perhaps it is my turn now to try to mark the Government’s card on the use of these powers. We are dealing with Clause 2 and the implementing regulations. There are a…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillI am sorry, but I am getting a bit confused here. By what mechanism does the Bill, which provides a power to make payments in respect of healthcare outside the United Kingdom,…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillI object to what the noble Lord has said: I am not involved in private healthcare in any sense. Not now nor at any time in the past have I acted in any way as a representative of…19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) Bill19 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillThe noble Lord invites me to go on about a subject that I anticipate Report stage of the Trade Bill will discuss in considerable detail. I do not propose to discuss it now, if he…19 Feb 2019HANSARDEU WithdrawalI am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. I am sure that the proposal from Her Majesty’s Opposition—that we should be part of a permanent customs union—is intended to be…13 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillAt the commencement of the Committee stage of the Trade Bill the House voted for a Motion whose effect was that the Government should bring forward their proposals for the future…05 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillI will come on to precisely that point about new agreements and the extent to which we need to amend existing legislation to give effect to such agreements. I will say a word…05 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillMy Lords, I join colleagues across the House in welcoming my noble friend to this House and to her new position. I had the privilege to serve in the other place with her. I know…05 Feb 2019HANSARDHealthcare (International Arrangements) BillWe spent four days in Committee on the Trade Bill. I do not know how much time is planned for this Bill but it is perfectly possible for us to consider this legislation and to put…05 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, what connects this group of amendments is that they are European Research Group’s amendments in the Commons that were accepted by the Government. I do not think they…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillThe noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, is absolutely right that the economic interest test is present in both Schedules 4 and 5 to the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act. As set out…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I am speaking on behalf of my noble friend Lady Altmann, who is unable to be here and asked me to extend her apologies. I think she would have shared the view of the…04 Feb 2019HANSARDTrade BillI agree that the public interest test is not defined anywhere, but is the economic interest test not defined in paragraph 23 of Schedule 5 to the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act?04 Feb 2019