Court of Justice of the European Union: Comprehensive Sickness Insurance

Lord Pannick Excerpts

Tuesday 24th May 2022 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Penn (Con)]

I reassure the noble Baroness that the Government will indeed want to have the complete picture when it comes to the impact of this judgment and its implications. I am sure that will include hearing from those who have been impacted directly by it.

[Lord Pannick (CB)]

My Lords, the Minister will know that Article 86 of the withdrawal agreement says:

“The Court of Justice of the European Union shall continue to have jurisdiction to give preliminary rulings on requests from courts and tribunals of the United Kingdom made before the end of the transition period.”


Can she tell the House how many more of these transitional cases are pending in the Court of Justice?

[Baroness Penn (Con)]

I do not have that figure for the noble Lord. I will happily go away, see if we have the figure and write to him with it. However, he is absolutely correct that the CJEU continues to have jurisdiction to make rulings on preliminary references from UK courts made before the end of the transition period, as happened in this case.