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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for ORAL answer on
14th February 1979
LUND
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
NeON ON WEDNESDAY
7 FEBRUARY 1979
Mr Jack Ashley (toke on Trent South): To ack the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking and persuading other governments to take, to help with the resettlement of temporary refugees now in Hong Kong.
A.
As my right hon Friend the Home Secretary informed my
hon Friend the Member for Southampton on the 17th of
January, of the further 1,500 Vietnamese refugees to be
admitted to Britain, 1,000 will come from Hong Kong.
We have also asked other governments to help Hong Kong
in this respect.
625 D.330614 4M 6/95 Cr.P.C. Go839/3
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