Baroness Coffey (Con)

My Lords, I had originally tabled Amendment 15, which I withdrew, because it looked like I was trying to be nasty and stop the bucket list for people or stop them going on holiday, but that was not my intention. My intention was to think about residency in a proper way. Bearing in mind previous comments from the Minister, I have ended up replacing one amendment with four in order to be precise throughout the Bill. In essence, I am not convinced that simply being ordinarily resident is enough. I say that because you can be ordinarily resident in more than one country. You can only be domiciled in one country. The issue here is: who is the Bill trying to cater for? I think, frankly—bearing in mind Amendment 23, proposed by my noble friend Lord Frost—that we should be looking at UK citizens and those whom the Government have decided to give indefinite leave to remain, and keep it at that. The element of “ordinarily resident” is that you can have settlement for a purpose. The single purpose could be that you just state that your settlement—your purpose for being ordinarily resident—is simply to take advantage of this Bill. I do not think that is enough. As regards the amendments that have been tabled by my noble friend Lord Lansley, I also do not want this extending to someone being able to live anywhere in the United Kingdom. Indeed, my noble friend Lord Moylan has perhaps anticipated some of the situations where people have moved abroad and then want to come back. The essence of the Bill should be that it is focusing on providing provision in this country for people who permanently live in this country, which is why “domiciled” is a better test than simply “ordinarily resident”, because, as I say, you can be ordinarily resident in more than one country.