TNAG-0564-FCO40-659-Construction-of-an-underground-railway-system-in-Hong-Kong-1975 — Page 86

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

21 July 1975

for WRITTEN answer on..

HRIOD

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by

5

NOON TUESDAY

22 JULT

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.

Dud

is

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.

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