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Refugee Action
Registered Office:
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The Cedars,
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Tel. 0332 - 833310
Chairman: Lord Chitnis
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Director: Shirley Fozzard
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You have already received a letter from Mr. H.A. Shaw expressing the serious concern of the Executive Council of the B.R.C. regarding the SCORRI programme of family reunions for Indochinese refugees from Hong Kong and elsewhere in S.E. Asia. Refugee Action, a Member agency of the B.R.C., is one of the two agencies involved in the implementation of the family reunion programme through its services in Leeds and the reception centre, The Cedars, in Derby. You will be familiar with the work of The Cedars from your informal visit in December 1985.
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The Staff of the family reunion programme have been working, in the absence of further written guidelines, to the Government reply to the Third Report from the Home Affairs Committee (Cmnd. 9626), particularly paras. 6-8, in response to Recommendation 1. As stated in Mr. Shaw's letter, the order for calling forward families and individuals had to be dependent upon availability of housing, but the actual establishment of who should come remained with the Home Office, since we have never been in a position to make decisions on who should come and who should not. Had we been informed at anytime that there was a quota, we would have obtained all the potentially eligible names, submitted the list to the Home Office, and then called forward those accepted.
As it stands, we are left with a list of 645 persons in Hong Kong; 211 Vietnamese in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Macau, and 78 Lao and Cambodian refugees in Thailand - all applicants under the SCORRI criteria awaiting consideration.
The process of implementation of the programme has been under constant discussion with the Home Office and is clearly recorded in the minutes of the meeting held at Lunar House on 21 January, 1986.
We as an agency have acted, therefore, as responsible agents in this matter and are gravely concerned to find ourselves in a position whereby refugees are now resident in the U.K. through our intervention who had arrived in Hong Kong only shortly before the publication of SCORRI, whilst others who have been in the open or closed camps in Hong Kong for four years or more remain there. We can only state again that had we been told at any time that a quota was being adhered to we could not have accepted the role given to us.
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