Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 07 Sep 2020
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
"My Lords, I support the amendment and the arguments advanced by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick. I apologise if the Committee starts its debate on another report from the Constitution Committee before this section is concluded.
In many respects this is a skeleton Bill, and in this area it changes …..."Lord Beith - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 May 2020
Policing: Covid-19 Guidance and Legislation
"My Lords, it is perfectly reasonable that the Government should urge people to go beyond the letter of the law in this crisis, but is it not vital not to confuse guidance with the law itself? For example, there is no law that precludes going out in a car to …..."Lord Beith - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 05 Mar 2020
Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill [HL]
"My Lords, it might assist the noble Lord if I point out to him that they are Aelodau Senedd, or AS, in Welsh. It is “Senedd” with a “th” sound, not a “d” sound...."Lord Beith - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Apr 2017
Criminal Finances Bill
"My Lords, I declare a simple interest as a former chairman of the Justice Committee in the House of Commons, where we sought to clarify and underline the constitutional relationship. That probably explains why, while I generally support government Amendment 8, I have some doubts as to whether it is …..."Lord Beith - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 03 Apr 2017
Criminal Finances Bill
"My Lords, my noble friend has explained with magnificent clarity the purpose and nature of her two amendments. However, in discussions that I have had with her, she has still not quite convinced me that the use of a statutory instrument to create further facilitation crimes is something that I …..."Lord Beith - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 03 Apr 2017
Criminal Finances Bill
"My Lords, I wish to refer to Amendment 169, to which the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, has spoken. In doing so, I declare an interest as having been chairman of the Justice Committee of the House of Commons, which produced two reports about the constitutional relationship between the United Kingdom …..."Lord Beith - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 16th February 2017
Asked by:
Lord Beith (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether former higher education students who are EU nationals who apply for permanent residence in the UK are required to have held comprehensive private health insurance during the time during which they were in higher education; and if so, whether students from EU countries are notified of the existence of such a requirement when, or before, they begin their courses of study.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford
- Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
EU citizens and their family members have the right to enter, live and acquire permanent residence in other Member States when certain conditions are met, as set out in EU law. This includes a requirement to hold comprehensive sickness insurance where they have been exercising their Treaty rights as students and later rely on such periods to qualify for permanent residence.
Guidance on the conditions for exercising Treaty rights as a student has always been publicly available to EU nationals. This can currently be found from page 21 onwards of the guidance on ‘qualified persons’ available on the UKGOV website via the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/european-economic-area-nationals-qualified-persons
The guidance is also attached to this answer.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Nov 2016
Policing and Crime Bill
"My Lords, I have great respect for both my noble friend Lord Paddick and the noble Lord, Lord Pannick. On this occasion, it is with the former, rather than the latter, that I agree, although one takes on either of them with a measure of reluctance and trepidation. I was …..."Lord Beith - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2016
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
"My Lords, I support the point made by my noble friend, which I think the Minister missed—namely, that this inquiry will take a very long time and that some pretty glaring lessons for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service can already be learned. We should not argue that nothing …..."Lord Beith - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 24th March 2015
Asked by:
Lord Beith (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will ensure that a full and substantive reply is given to the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed to his letter of 6 January 2015 regarding the Shared Services Directorate and his constituent M.W.
Answered by James Brokenshire
My Noble Friend Lord Bates wrote to the right hon. Member on 20 March.