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25 September 1985

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HOME AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: REPORT ON REFUGEES AND ASYLUM

The Prime Minister has noted the details of the Government' S proposed response to the Home Affairs Committee's Third Report on Refugees and Asylum with special reference to the Vietnamese. She has commented that the decision to accept the Committee's recommendations relating to the admission of further Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong is a damaging one given the background of high unemployment and the Government's declared policy of reducing immigration. She thinks that the matter should certainly have been taken to H Committee.

Since it is presumably too late to rescind the decision, the Prime Minister hopes that the Home Secretary will pay very careful attention to the presentation of it.

I am copying this letter to the Private Secretaries to

members of H Committee and to Peter Ricketts (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Michael Stark (Cabinet Office).

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