Exiting the EU: New Partnership

Theresa Villiers Excerpts
Thursday 2nd February 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Theresa Villiers Portrait Mrs Theresa Villiers (Chipping Barnet) (Con)
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I urge the Secretary of State to give priority to the matters in chapter 6 of the White Paper on securing the rights of EU nationals. I have in mind a constituent who is an EU national and who has sadly been receiving cancer treatment for many years. I am anxious to be able to give her certainty as soon as possible that she will continue to have access to the NHS.

David Davis Portrait Mr Davis
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That is part of the point of doing this. We are talking about not only residents’ rights, but the right of access to healthcare. That matters both for Europeans in Britain and for Britons abroad. I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend.