DSR I (Revised Sept 85)

L31ABA

DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

FROM:

HKD

DEPARTMENT:

BUILDING:

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

Top Secret

Private Secretary

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

PRIVACY MARKING

CAVEAT

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SUBJECT:

TYPE: Draft/Final 1 +

Reference

TEL. NO:

Your Reference

ROOM NO:

In Confidence

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG

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Problem

Copies to:

1. The Chief Secretary's letter of 6 June gave agreement

to a claim of up to £ 4.25 million from this year's

Reserve to provide for emergency temporary accommodation

for Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong. £ 4 million of

that sum was for the conversion of the barracks at

Lei Yeu Min.

conversion.

Those barracks are no longer available for

The Chief Secretary's agreement is required

to spend a similar sum towards other emergency

accommodation.

Recommendation

12.

That the Secretary of State should write to the

Chief Secretary on the lines of the attached draft.

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