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1305 1977 to discuss the content and techniques of command training. A further confer- ence is to be convened in Paris in November 1978 to examine the task of the police in the social community and its implications for personnel training. Mem- ber States have also agreed to establish a working group of officials and serving police officers which will be charged with organising training conferences and with promoting the exchange of specialist personnel and training information. The United Kingdom will be represented on this working group which is expected to meet for the first time in September 1978.
EDINBURGH: COMMUNITY
COUNCILS
The Earl of SELKIRK asked Her Majesty's Government:
When the report of the Inquiry made into the proposal to set up a Com- munity Council in the districts of the City of Edinburgh will be made known.
Lord STRABOLGI: The/decision on the report of the Inquiry was conveyed to the City of Edinburgh District Council on 19th July and published in the Press on 20th July.
My right honourable friend decided to modify the scheme submitted by the District Council, so that it now provides for 55 community councils within the whole area of the District.
INDO-CHINEse refugees: QUOTA SYSTEM
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they are taking or considering to assist with the problems of the large numbers of refugees from Cambodia still not permanently settled.
Lord HARRIS of GREENWICH:
Following an international appeal by the United, Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Her Majesty's Government agreed to accept for permanent settlement in the United Kingdom 116 Indo-Chinese small boat refugees. However, before that quota had been fully taken up, there was evidence tht several South-East Asian countries were refusing permission to disembark to small boat refugees rescued on the high seas by passing ships; they would only do so if the country of registration of the rescuing vessel gave an undertaking to accept for permanent settlement any such refugees who had not been settled elsewhere within agreed period. My right honourable friend recently decided the where the rescuing vestel
registered at a port in - the United Kingdom such an undertaking would be given where it was required. It is not intended that this commitment should be numerically limited by way of a quota. To date 258 small boat refugees, all Vietnamese, have been accepted for permanent settlement 10 the United Kingdom.
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A total of 153 Cambodians have been accepted as refugees in the United Kingdom; this includes those who were already here at the time of the Com-
munist takeover of Cambodia and those accepted as refugees on the basis of some tie
or connection with this country. Such applications will continue to receive sympathetic consideration without regard to numerical limitations. Another form of assistance has been provided by the Government's recently announced con- tribution of £1 million to the United
Lord ELTON asked Her Majesty's Nations High Commissioner for Refu- Government:
What was the result of the considera- tion given to the quota of Indo-Chinese refugees admissible to this country as referred to on 12th December 1977 by Lord Goronwy-Roberts (Hansard col. 1964); what is the present figure at which the quota is set; how much of it has already been taken up; how many of such refugees are refugees from Cambodia; and what other steps
gees for his special operations in Thailand and other countries of South East Asia.
PREVENTION of terroriSM LEGISLATION; review TION
Lord JACQUES asked Her Majesty's Government
What progress Lord Shackleton is making in his review of the Prevention
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