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LETTER
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The Rt Hon Alfred Morris MP
House of Commons
Type 1 +
From
Lord Privy Seal
Telephone No. Ext.
LONDON SW 1
Department
Thank you for your letter of 15 September to
Lord Carrington about Indo-Chinese refugees in Hong Kong.
It has taken a little time to gather all of the
statistics for which you asked and I am afraid that some
of the information is just not available. However, I hope
that the following replies to your questions will be of
some help.
1.
The total number of refugees in gainful employment
in Hong Kong on 20 September 1979 was 15,574.
Based on
the age structure of a sample of refugees and
applying this to the population of the open camps,
the percentage of those working compared with the
total number of adults is 44%.
2. At the end of August 1979, a total of 3,774 refugees
from Indo-China had been resettled in the UK. 3,361
of these were originally from Vietnam. A further 1,767
refugees in Hong Kong have also been selected for
permanent resettlement in the UK. These have now
started to arrive. Information on the countries of
origin of these refugees is not readily available.
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Dd 0532000 800M 5/78 HMSO Bracknell
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