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Question 10

Reply by the Secretary for Security to a Question by the Hon. W. C. L. Brown, OBE.,JP., in the Legislative Council on 6 February 1985

Question:

Would Government inform this Council how many domestic helpers recruited from overseas held immigration approval to work in Hong Kong as at the end of 1982, 1983 and 1984 respectively?

Reply:

Sir,

At the end of 1982, there were 21,517 domestic helpers from overseas who held immigration approval to work in Hong Kong.

2.

At the end of 1983, there were 26,314; and at

the end of 1984, there were 24,590.