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Asylum Seekers

The regulations will come to me next week, so I will be in a position to write to my right hon. Friend then with a fuller answer to his question. I will not detain this debate with a long, drawn out discussion about health care, because I do not want to pre-empt the review’s conclusions. However, I undertake to ensure that the comments and contributions that have been made this afternoon will be reflected on. That will be slightly disappointing for Members. The points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) are rooted in an enormous amount of thought and experience, so I will genuinely make sure that the review, when it is published, addresses them—particularly those about public health and HIV, which have been uppermost in the minds of Department of Health Ministers when asking their officials to consider this question.