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MR NICHOLAS BENNETT (PEMBROKE] [C]
To ask the Secretary of State:
what estimates he has as to the number of Hong Kong citizens who have emigrated to: (a) Canada,
(b) Australia, (c) the United States of America and (d) the United Kingdom in each of the past 10 years.
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Estimates of emigration are available only on an
aggregated basis. According to Hong Government
estimates, emigration from Hong Kong in each of
the last ten years was:
1980
22,400
1985 22,300
1981
18,300
1986 19,000
1982
20,300
1987 30,000
1983
19,800
1988 45,800
1984
22,400
1989 42,000
Over 90 per cent of these went to Canada,
Australia and the United States.
During the last 10 years the number of BDTCS and
BN (0)s from Hong Kong accepted for settlement in
the United Kingdom was: