need, we will also be prepared
to consider
accepting
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further limited numbers from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong
Government would similarly be prepared to consider
absorbing limited numbers into Hong Kong from the camps,
but again this will depend on other countries' responses
to the UK's initiative. These decisions we re announced
in the White Paper which the Government published on
September in response to the Home Affairs Sub-Committee
on Race Relations and Immigration (SCORRI)'s recent
report, "Refugees and Asylums with Special Reference to
the Vietnamese". If Miss Dew wishes to obtain a a copy,
she can do SO
from Her Majesty's Stationery Office, PO
Box 276, London SW8 5DT, price £3.30 (Reference Cmnd.
9626).
With the
voluntary agencies.
assistance of various voluntary
the Home Office are now making practical arrangements for
the arrival in the UK of this new group of refugees from
Hong Kong. (As Miss Dew may be aware, we hve already
accepted some 19,000 Indo-Chinese, mainly from Hong Kong,
for resettlement since 1975, and we also continue to
accept family reunion and ship re scue cases.) The Home
Office expect the se to arrive at a rate of about 40 a
month over the next year or So. The first two families
(comprising 20 refugees altogether) arrived in November,
and have been offered accommodation in Leeds and
Nottingham. The Home Office expect the next group to
arrive in early January.
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