TNAG-0802-FCO40-1006-Immigration-from-China-to-Hong-Kong-1978 — Page 236

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19 July 1978

Mr Patrick Wall (Haltemprice): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many refugees from mainland China have been repatriated after having entered Hong Kong in each of the past five years.

No 29

MR EVAN LUARD

The numbers of would-be illegal immigrants who have

been repatriated from Hong Kong to China are as follows:-

1973

0

1974

233

1975

1,133

1976

810

1977

1,779

1978

(January-June) 1,556

I would emphasise that those repatriated are not,

and do not claim to be, refugees.