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need some more money, we said yes we can provide £6 million
of taxpayers money but that must be spent to alleviate the
problems in Hong Kong, to implement the comprehensive plan
of action. So instead of spending the money elsewhere
around the world, for a different cause, that £6 million of
British money is going to straight into the best way for
the UNHCR to alleviate the problem for Hong Kong. Now the actual details of that must be for the UNHCR to sort out, but what it is, is going to try and help Hong Kong in the best way.
So it is possible that part of the £6 million will be spent on building new centres, detention centres in Hong Kong?
No, that would be a different thing because UNHCR haven't been responsible for building, for the capital costs, it is the running costs of their work and the centres that they are involved with. The capital costs have been either provided by the Hong Kong Government or the British
Government, because as you know since 1989 we have contributed nearly £35 million and we have recently paid a substantial part of the costs of the new camp
at..
Q: So as you may have noticed the LEDGCO in Hong Kong has
already agreed not to put any money to set up a detention centre in Hong Kong. If there is an urgent need, you know the detention centre in Hong Kong is very over crowded, will the British Government send more money to build new detention centres in Hong Kong given the fact that the
has already said no?
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Yes, I understand that LEDGCO have made their views perfectly clear on this and we also know the pressure that the Hong Kong Government is under in the detention centres, with the amount of people arriving from Vietnam. What we want to do is spend the money that we can contribute to this problem, to the resolution of this problem, in the