European Union Migration: National Insurance

Lord Wallace of Saltaire Excerpts

Thursday 12th May 2016 Lords Chamber

[Lord Ashton of Hyde]

My Lords, this is a well-worn theme from the noble Lord and it is slightly outside the scope of today’s Statement on the Office for National Statistics report, but I take his point and I am sure he will raise it again.

[Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)]

My Lords, does the Minister recognise that this is not just a British problem? I have been sitting here thinking that I still have a US federal tax number—I am not sure about my US insurance number. And I am not sure from my three months working in Paris some years ago—during which, I have to say to the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth, we put our daughter into a French school, thus increasing the strain on their system—whether I still have a French number, but this is the two-way aspect to it. No doubt the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, has all sorts of things in the French tax system—maybe in the French national insurance system—from residence there.

[Lord Ashton of Hyde]

I am not quite sure what the question was, but I am sure it was a wise one.