division_name: Trade Bill &#8212; New Clause 17 - International trade agreements: health or care services
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">(1) Regulations under section 2(1) may make provision for the purpose of implementing an international trade agreement only if the conditions in subsections (2) and (3) are met in relation to the application of that agreement in any part of the United Kingdom.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) The condition in this subsection is that no provision of that international trade agreement in any way undermines or restricts the ability of an appropriate authority&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) The condition in this subsection is that the agreement&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">public health, social care and public safety in health or care services, and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/14" pwmotiontext="yes">(e) prohibits the sale of patient data, public health data and publicly provided social care data.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/15" pwmotiontext="yes">(4) For the purposes of this section&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/16" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;negative listing&#8221; means a listing only of exceptions, exclusions or limits to commitments made by parties to the agreement;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/17" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;ratchet&#8221; in relation to any provision in an agreement means any provision whereby a party, if (after the agreement has been ratified) it has unilaterally removed a barrier in an area where it had made a commitment before the agreement was ratified, may not reintroduce that barrier, and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/18" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;standstill&#8221; in relation to any provision in an agreement means any provision by which parties list barriers which are in force at the time that they sign the agreement and undertake not to introduce any new barriers.&#8212;(Bill Esterson.)</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1948.1/19" pwmotiontext="yes">This amendment would aim to protect the NHS and publicly funded health and care services in other parts of the UK from any form of control from outside the UK.</p>