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HOUSE OF COMMONS PQ: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES 2222
Problem
1. To explain why the figure for Vietnamese refugees permitted
to settle permanently in Hong Kong given in the reply to
Mr Patrick Wall's question on 13 June was higher than the one
quoted in the reply to Mr Robert Parry's question on 11 June.
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Recommendation
2. I recommend that Mr Blaker should write to Mr Parry on
the lines of the attached draft.
Background
3.
Both figures were based on information provided by the
Hong Kong Government. But after sending us the first figure on
7 June they carried out a more careful survey and realized that
they had not taken full account of the number of Vietnamese
who originally came to Hong Kong as visitors but were subsequently
allowed to stay, and those who came as illegal immigrants.
It is inevitably difficult to maintain accurate statistics of
people in these categories; but the Hong Kong Government are
confident that the revised figures, sent on 11 June, are the
best that can be provided.
20 June 1979
Rivington
R J T McLaren
Hong Kong and General Department
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