TNAG-0564-FCO40-659-Construction-of-an-underground-railway-system-in-Hong-Kong-1975 — Page 85

21 July 1975

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Mr A P Costain (Folkestone and Hythe): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many people would be employed in the construction of the mass transit system in Hong Kong.

No 188W

MR DAVID ENNALS

It is estimated that about 2,500 people would be employed in the early stages of building the modified initial system of the Mass Transit Railway. The number would rise to some 4,500 between 1976 and 1978, when the bulk of the work would be undertaken.