PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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13 June 1979
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Mr Patrick Wall (Haltemprice): To ask the Lord Privy Seal, how many Vietnamense refugees have passed through or are now in Hong Kong; and if he will make a statement as to their proposed eventual destination.
Mr Peter Blake
Since 1975, some 72,000 Vietnamese refugees have arrived in Hong
Kong, nearly 50,000 of them this year. About 11,000 have been
allowed to settle there. A further 9,565 have been resettled in
third countries. On 12 June 51,785 were in Hong Kong awaiting
resettlement. Their eventual destinations are a matter for the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in consultation with
the Governments of potential resettlement countries.
PARB.
12/6.