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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for WRITTEN answer cn.....15... November 197

HK TGD.

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

NOON ON TUESDAY

14 NOVEMBER 1978.

Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many legal immigrants have entered Hong Kong from China in each of the past five years.

6.

MiR Evan Luard

The number of legal immigrants entering Hong Kong from China

in each year since 1973 is:-

1973

55,659

1974

32,918

1975

25,641

1976

20,453

1977

26,449

1978 (to 31 October)

50,249

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