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NOTES FOR SUPPLEMENTARIES
TOO MANY
1. Britain really must play its part in a solution and the new figure takes into account our capacity to accept refugees.
TOO FEW
2. This country has an excellent record for accepting refugees and other immigrants but there are constraints on our ability to take large numbers in a short time.
COST
3. Although the cost of absorbing the refugees will be substantial, it is right that we should bear it in the face of such great humanitarian needs.
SOCIA SOCIAL IMPACT
4. Care is taken by the voluntary agencies, who look after the refugees on arrival, to distribute them to areas where they can most readily be assimilated.
HOUSING
5.
Largely a question for the individual local authorities.
TIMESCALE
6. I cannot say at this stage how rapidly the commitment which I have just announced is likely to be taken up. We shall try · to take as many as possible as quickly as possible but I see no prospect of taking all the 10,000 this year.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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