TNAG-0880-FCO40-1090-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 40

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

for ORAL answer on

14th February 1979

LUND

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

NeON ON WEDNESDAY

7 FEBRUARY 1979

Mr Jack Ashley (toke on Trent South): To ack the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking and persuading other governments to take, to help with the resettlement of temporary refugees now in Hong Kong.

A.

As my right hon Friend the Home Secretary informed my

hon Friend the Member for Southampton on the 17th of

January, of the further 1,500 Vietnamese refugees to be

admitted to Britain, 1,000 will come from Hong Kong.

We have also asked other governments to help Hong Kong

in this respect.

625 D.330614 4M 6/95 Cr.P.C. Go839/3

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