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N2.52
MAR 1975
4KK9/3
DATE 10/3/753
CCL.....4.6...... VOL.....8.8.8...
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cholera, typhoid fever and typhus in Hong Kong for each year for which figures are available from 1970 onwards.
Mr. Ennals: Campaigns against polio, diphtheria and measles have been carried out at a total annual staff cost of Hong Kong dollars 1·3 million. No breakdown of this figure is available. Expenditure on polio vaccine has been:
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
HK$
30,000
***
30,000
40,000
47,000 67,000
There have been no immunisation campaigns against epidemic typhus and typhoid fever, or since 1971, against cholera. All three types of vaccine are readily available to the public as is poliomyelitis vaccine.
Mr. Newens asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Hong Kong residents hold British passports which entitle them to entry into the United Kingdom; and how many do not.
Mr. Ennals: There is little I can add to the answer which I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Sillars) on 8th November 1974- [Vol. 884, c. 256.] The total number of
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Hong Kong British passports issued between 1st January 1965 and 31st December 1974 was 255,740.
Mr. Ron Lewis asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement of
the progress and prospects of the Hong Kong Polytechnic.
Mr. Ennals: Since the polytechnic was inaugurated on 1st August 1972 it has expanded rapidly. Approved programmes assume a student enrolment of 7,000 in 1978, eventually rising to 8,000. Evening students at present number about 13,000 and will rise to 20,000 within four years. The Hong Kong Government have accepted in principle capital commit- ments up to HK$151-4 million for new buildings.
Mr. Ron Lewis asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report the money spent and the number of students enrolled year by year over the past five years at the Hong Kong Polytechnic.
Mr. Ennals: The Hong Kong Poly- technic was inaugurated on 1st August 1972. Figures for the money spent and the number of students enrolled since then are as follows:
Academic Years
QoA sest b led Sec Navy Hang
Day!
Icah
Expenditure
1. Recurrent
2. Capital
Total
400
:
Enrolment (full-time equivalent) ...
1972-73
HKS m.
1973-74
HK$ m.
1974-75 Estimated
HKS m.
::
14.6
47.7
66.5
1.0
5+2
14.9
15.6
52.9
$1.5
...
2.173
2,690
3,487
Mr. Ron Lewis asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report figures to show the money spent
and the number of students enrolled year by year over the past five years at the Hong Kong Chinese University.
Mr. Ennals: Figures are as follows:
Academic Years
Expenditure
1. Recurrent 2. Capital
Total
***
Enrolment
...
17 H 32
1970-71
1971-73
1972-73
1973-74
1974-75 Estimated
HK$ m.
HKS m.
HKS m.
HK$ m.
HK$ n.
33-1
38-1
45.7
54.3
64-2
29.4
33.1
26.8
13.6
19.8
1.00
62.5
71.2
72.5
67.9
84.0
200
MAD
2,393
2,553
2,746
3,066
3,350
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