TNAG-1427-FCO40-1910-Vietnamese-refugees-in-Hong-Kong-general-1986 — Page 84

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we will also be prepared

to consider

accepting

further limited numbers from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong

Government would similarly be prepared to consider

absorbing limited numbers into Hong Kong from the camps,

but again this will depend on other countries' responses

to the UK's initiative. These decisions were announced

in the White Paper which the Government published on 26

September in response to the Home Affairs

Affairs Sub-Committee

on Race Relations and Immigration (SCORRI)'s recent

report, "Refugees and Asylums with Special Reference

the Vietnamese"

she can do SO

Box 276, London

9626).

to

If Miss Dew wishes to obtain a copy,

from Her Majesty's Stationery Office, PO

SW8 5DT, price £3.30 (Reference Cmnd.

With the assistance of various voluntary agencies

the Home Office are now making practical arrangements for

the arrival in the UK of this new group of refugees from

Hong Kong. (As Miss Dew may be aware, we hve already

accepted some 19,000 Indo-Chinese, mainly from Hong Kong,

for resettlement since 1975, and we also continue to

reunion and ship re scue cases.) The Home

40 a

accept family

Office expect the se to arrive at a rate of about 40

month over the next year or So. The first two families

(comprising 20 refugees altogether) arrived in November,

and have been offered accommodation in Leeds and

Nottingham. The Home Office expect the next group to

arrive in early January.