More courses linking skills training and English language teaching, including residential courses to assist the more scattered Vietnamese.
More assistance towards Vietnamese small businesses.
Extension of the scope of Section 11 grants (intended for 'Commonwealth immigrants') so that local
authorities are helped to provide staff to work with
the Vietnamese.
Formulation by the Home Office of a long-term policy towards the more scattered Vietnamese.
An increase in the scale of the refugee agencies'
Vietnamese programme.
Promotion of Vietnamese community centres or access to community facilities shared with other groups in the main centres of Vietnamese population.
(3) Asylum procedures
This section relates to refugees of any nationality seeking to enter Britain, and examines the system for determining claims to asylum. The numbers of asylum applicants in 1982 and 1983 were 4167 and 3568 respectively. They came from more than 60 countries, but the main flows were
Most of from Africa and the Middle East (especially Iran). those who submitted evidence regarded Britain's general record on asylum as satisfactory.
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