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Sir Patrick Wall (Haltemprice): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs, how many Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong have been re-settled in other countries in each of the past three years; and how many have been taken by each of the various countries for re-settlement.
Mr Malcolm Rifkind
37,468 Vietnamese refugees were resettled from Hong Kong in 1980;
17,818 in 1981 and 8,847 in 1982 (up to the end of November) in the
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following countries:
1980
1981
1982
USA
21,053
12,222
6,548
Canada
6,548
2,070
1,041
United Kingdom
6,076
1,775
238
Australia
984
500
345
France
188
362
169
West Germany
537
81
45
Denmark
321
220
71
Switzerland
414
97
14
Norway
180
187
22
72
Austria
318
14
New Zealand
217
2
99
Netherlands
96
102
110
Spain
250
Sweden
95
2
13
Japan
36
68
LO
5
Greece
42
New Caledonia
4
12
21
Belgium
29
6
2
China
33
1
2
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