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P Morgan Esq
United Nations Department
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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Dear Pat
Your reference
Our reference
IMG/79 58/1026/9
Date 29 June 1979
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED KINGDOM
I am sorry for the delay in replying to your letter of 9 May about Iain Orr's request for figures.
As regards general immigration to the United Kingdom I attach 2 tables taken from the "Control of Immigration Statistics, 1978" (Cmnd. 7565). These show the total number of people accepted for settlement in the United Kingdom, both on arrival and on removal of the time limit. As you will see, the total acceptances for settlement (ie both foreign nationals and Commonwealth citizens) for the period in question was as follows:-
1975
1976
1977
1978
82,405
80,745
69,313
72,331
representing a total of 304,794 over the whole period.
Figures for Indo-China refugees accepted from May 1975 to 27 June 1979 (very few of whom will be included in the above figures) are as follows:-
Vietnamese
Cambodian
Laotian
Total
Already in U.K. in 1975
155
136
52
343
U.K. ties (mostly
377
39
160
576
family reunion cases)
Boat refugees (other
than those below)
804
804
'1500' quota
270
270
ex-Sibonga
898
898
ex-Roachbank
293
293
TOTALS
2797
175
212
3184