Member

I do not intend to dwell on a large number of the amendments in this group. I simply want to say that, when we come to Report, my hope is that the noble and learned Lord—whose time spent in discussion about this I have valued and thank him for—might, as the Bill’s sponsor, recognise that we would better off simply amending the Bill to take out the reference to England and Wales, and likewise for the consequential changes in the subsequent Clauses 8, 10 and 17, and make the eligibility test straightforward: about whether one is ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, as that is the only test we have in common law at the moment, and that that is “for the time being”, as is currently used. We would then rest on those the proposition that one is both ordinarily resident and registered with a medical practice, which aligns it with NHS practice.