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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for WRITTEN answer on11 February 1977
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The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
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Noon, Thursday 10 February 1977
Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many families and small traders have been evicted tó make way for the construction of the Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong to date; and how many families were rehoused.
Mr Evan Luard
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221 families and 37 businesses have moved from premises acquired
in connection with the construction of the Mass Transit Railway. Domestic occupants have been offered public housing as well as cash compensation, but in 19 cases they have preferred to find their own accommodation. In addition, 784 families have moved into public housing and 257 families into temporary accommodation in licensed areas from squatter structures cleared from Crown land for the Mass Transit Railway.
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