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INDO-CHINA REFUGEES: STATISTICS
The Home Office will be updating their contributions to joint paper on "Vietnamese Refugees: The Facts", but you may wish to see the position as they gave it to me on 29 July:-
1.
277
ARRIVALS IN UK BEFORE 27 JUNE
Vietnam
Already in UK
155
Cambodia
136
Laos
Thailand
52
343
UK ties
377
39
160
576
Boat refugees
other than below
804
804
1,500 quota
270
270
Ex Sibonga
898
898
Ex Roach Bank
283
283
TOTAL
2,797
175
212
3,184
includes all given visas, some of whom may not have arrived.
OUTSTANDING COMMITMENTS
Ex Sibonga
Ex Ashford
Others in Singapore
45
41
57
Unexpired part of 1,500 quota 1,230
3 July 1979
TOTAL
1,383
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