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MR NICHOLAS BENNETT (PEMBROKE] [C]

To ask the Secretary of State:

what estimates he has as to the number of Hong Kong citizens who have emigrated to: (a) Canada,

(b) Australia, (c) the United States of America and (d) the United Kingdom in each of the past 10 years.

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Estimates of emigration are available only on an

aggregated basis. According to Hong Government

estimates, emigration from Hong Kong in each of

the last ten years was:

1980

22,400

1985 22,300

1981

18,300

1986 19,000

1982

20,300

1987 30,000

1983

19,800

1988 45,800

1984

22,400

1989 42,000

Over 90 per cent of these went to Canada,

Australia and the United States.

During the last 10 years the number of BDTCS and

BN (0)s from Hong Kong accepted for settlement in

the United Kingdom was: