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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer on... 8 February 1977

HKD

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

WRLD

Noou, Mouday

7 February 1977.

Mr Frank Hooley (Sheffield, Heeley): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many persons concerned in the illicit export of opium or heroin from Hong Kong_were arrested and prosecuted in each of the years 1974, 1975 and 1976.

The number of persons arrested and subsequently prosecuted was

as follows:

1974

1975

1976

Heroin

Opium

nil

7

6

nil

nil

nil

My Evav luaid

The full information is not immediately available but

in possession of heroin arrested while

the number of persons arrested while attempting to leave Hong

Kong and subsequently prosecuted was as follows:-

1974

1975

1976

Heroin

nil

7

6

Opium

nil

nil

nil

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