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Whether the Government plans to offer Asia Bibi asylum.

Tabled: 27 November 2018Answered: 3 December 2018

Asked by

Mike Kane

LabourWythenshawe and Sale East

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer from Hansard

Karin Smyth

I understand the issues that the hon. Gentleman and many other Members, such as my hon. Friend the Member for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes (Melanie Onn), have raised in Grimsby and the Lincolnshire area. It is important that the clinical mapping for their new services is supported by clinicians and local people, and I am happy to continue to talk to the hon. Member for Brigg and Immingham (Martin Vickers) and others about progress with that. I am in touch with the NHS England team, and it assures me that it is continuing to do that. I also understand the additional difficulties—