PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for WRITTEN answer on..11...June 1979
W
SEAD
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by
NOON ON FRIDAY
8 JUNE
1979
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Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Lord Privy Seal, if he will publish in the Official Report from international sources available to him a list of the countries which have accepted Vietnamese refugees and the numbers accepted to the latest available date.
According to the most recent figures available from the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees the number of Vietnamese
refugees accepted for resettlement by the countries shown as at
1 May 1979 is as follows:
Country
China
Taiwan
USA
France
Australia
Number Accepted
230,000
1,000 (estimate)
..
217,000
48,800
19,500
Canada
14,400
Germany
.
3,500
United Kingdom
2,200
Malaysia
1,600
Switzerland
1,500
Belgium
*
1,300
Norway
New Zealand
Denmark
Netherlands
Austria
900
800
•
600
380
340
Italy
•
250
Israel
Japan
170
វា
50
/Luxembourg
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