TNAG-1912-FCO40-2716-Financial-assistance-from-the-UK-Government-to-Vietnamese-re-1989 — Page 40

Question:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

what funds the Government is making available in this financial

year towards the cost of accommodation for and repatriation of Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong.

Answer:

We have provided £15.95 million for this purpose. Parliamentary

approval for this new service is being sought in the Winter Supplementary Estimate for the Vote for Other External Relations

(Class II, Vote 2) which covers expenditure of £5.8m for

Vietnamese Boat People. A further £10.15m will be sought in a

Spring Supplementary Estimate. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure will be met by further repayable advances of £10.15m

from the Contingencies Fund.