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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
WRITTEN answer cn.
cn 8 May 1978
HK+GD
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by
NOON ON FRIDAY
5 MAY 1978.
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Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish in the Official Report the number of persons who have entered Hong Kong from China by any legal means other than by re-entry permit for each year since 1972; how many now have permanent legal residence; and what is the average age of such entrees.
Mx Evan Luard
The numbers of legal entrants from China to Hong Kong since
1972 are:
20,355 (1972)
55,659 (1973)
32,918 (1974)
25,641 (1975)
20,453 (1976)
26,449 (1977)
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13,564 (up to 30 April 1978).
About 76,500 of these have been allowed to reside permanently
Their average age was approximately 27.
in Hong Kong.