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figure of 100 per month).
In most cases close dependants are likely to be included in each group of refugees, since the Vietnamese tend to move in family groups and it is therefore unlikely that any close dependants will be left behind. If other close dependants do sub- sequently make their appearance, the Home Office will consider, on the principle of family reunification, applications to enter the UK from any dependants of refugees permitted to settle here. Such dependants admitted will not count as part of the quota.
6.
Despite this concession, our response may appear somewhat meagre and we should have liked to see the Home Office accept a larger overall number. However, the responsibility for receiving and assisting these refugees falls on the various voluntary organisations who have, in the past, found it more difficult to cope with Indo- Chinese refugees than with most other groups.
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I recommend that we look at this problem again once most of the 116 are satisfactorily settled here. We should then consider whether we want to press the Home Office to accept a small further quota.
27 January 1977
MK O Simpson-Orlebar
United Nations Department
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