FOR PRU USE ONLY
OP Date
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
For WRITTEN ANSWER on
22 JUNE 1988
Head of
HKD
Please submit :-
a draft Answer & background to Parliamentary Unit
52
SERIAL NO; 2784
W PARTY
TEXT OF QUESTION :-
DR JOHN MAREK (WREXHAM)
To ask the Secretary of State/HMG;
before
21/6/88 hein
if he will make it his policy not to keep any person for more than five years in a closed camp in Hong Kong.
HKA 243/4
to P/S
MR. EGGAR
(Minister)
for approval by
NOON
PQS
REPLY (s)
for answer by
MR. EGGAR
(Minister)
ANSWER:
As part of their new policy towards Vietnamese boat people arriving in the territory, the Hong Kong Government intend over the next 6 to 12 months to liberalise the regime in the centres which will house all those accorded refugee status. Those arriving after 16 June who are not accorded refugee status will be detained in closed centres without access to resettlement, pending their return to Vietnam as soon as internationally acceptable conditions for this
are established.
copy to
Private Secretary
PS/LORD GLENARTHUR
(Minister)
Parliamentary Clerk
authorised
С ски Мит (Head of Dept.)