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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

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17 December

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Sir Patrick Wall (Haltemprice): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs, how many Vietnamese boat people have been rescued by British ships in the past three years; how many of these have been re-settled in the United Kingdom; and how many still remain in Hong Kong, respectively.

1537 Vietnamese boat people have been rescued by British

ships since January 1980, 856 have been resettled in the

United Kingdom, and 52 are still in Hong Kong (this includes

two who were born there).