PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for WRITTEN answer on...July 1982.
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HKGD
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by
NOON ON FRIDAY 9 JULY 82
S.
M
La Dr Edmund Marshall (Goole): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, why the number of Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong increased by 813 between 7 April and 30 June.
Mr Maletas AN
Since early May the rate of arrival of Vietnamese refugees
in Hong Kong has exceeded the rate of resettlement. The rate
normally
of arrival always increases during the summer months. At the
same time it has become harder to find resettlement places.
Approved by M. Rifkind
14/7