HC Deb 20 January 1981 vol 997 cc93-100W
Mr. Proctor

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report the number of houses or apartments which have been allocated by each local authority in the United Kingdom to refugees from Vietnam and the number of refugees involved in each case.

Mr. Raison

[pursuant to his reply, 11 December 1980]: The following information, which relates to the position on 30 November 1980, was provided by the Joint Committee for Refugees from Vietnam:

(1)
Units Occupied Refugees resettled Units offered not yet occupied
ENGLAND
London
GLC 238 1,064 323
Camden 6 33 14
Units Occupied Refugees resettled Units offered not yet occupied
Merton 6 23
Bromley 10 40 2
Redbridge 2
Southwark 5 20
Tower Hamlets 5
Waltham Forest 2 10 9
Barnet 4 20
Bexley 4 27 3
Greenwich 6 32 9
Metropolitan counties
GREATER MANCHESTER
Wigan 3 16 7
Bury 4 20
Manchester 13 67 7
Oldham 4 15
Trafford 7 34
Stockport 15 51
MERSEYSIDE
Liverpool 13 47 7
St. Helens 10 45
Knowsley 10 58
Wirral 5 21 7
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Sheffield 6 31
Rotherham 8 32
TYNE AND WEAR
Newcastle upon Tyne 10 55
North Tyneside 4 19 2
Gasteshead 6
South Tyneside 2 10
WEST MIDLANDS
Wolverhampton 2 9 4
Walsall 10 55
Dudley 12 53
Sandwell 2 8
Birmingham 47 211 3
Solihull 2 10
WEST YORKSHIRE
Bradford 6 34 1
Leeds 1 2 10
Calderdale 13 59 2
Kirklees 4 21 1
Non-metropolitan counties
AVON
Northavon 2 4
Bristol 10 57
Kingswood 4 22
Woodspring 3 14
Wabsdyke 2 12
Bath 3 10 1
BEDFORDSHIRE
Mid Bedfordshire 4 8
South Bedfordshire 2 3
Luton 4 20
ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE
Newbury 5 24 5
Reading 6 30
Wokingham 3 16
Windsor and Maidenhead 2 10 3
Slough 4 16 2
BUCKINGHGAMSHIRE
Aylesbury Vale 8 37
Units Occupied Refugees resettled Units offered not yet occupied
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Huntingdon 18 89 3
South Cambridgeshire 4 17
Cambridge 8 37 1
CHESHIRE
Halton 6 30
Ellesmere Port and Neston 9 50 1
Vale Royal 6 33 3
Macclesfield 4 16 2
Chester 5 23 1
Crewe and Nantwich 2 14
Congleton 2 9
CLEVELAND
Hartlepool 5 23
Middlesborough 12 54
Longbaurgh 7 45 1
CORNWALL
North Cornwall 2 3
CUMBRIA
Carlisle 2 11 4
Allerdale 3
Copeland 3
South Lakeland 2
Barrpw-in-Furness 1 8
DERBYSHIRE
High Peak 4 13
Chesterfield 1 2
North East Derbyshire 7 24
Derby 11 57 2
Erewsah 3 19
South Derbyshire 2 9 2
DEVON
North Devon 3 22 2
West Devon 3 18 3
Mid Devon 2 11
Exeter 3 13 1
East Devon 1 7
Plymouth 2 10
South Hames 3 15 2
Torbay 4 14
DORSET
Wimborne 3 16
Christchurch 2 7
COUNTY DURHAM
Derwentside 2
Chester-le-Street 2 9
Durham 6 24
Easington 2 14 4
Sedgefield 4 16 5
Darlington 6 24 4
EAST SUSSEX
Wealden 2 7
Lewes 3 11
Hastings 2 2
ESSEX
Uttlesford 3 11 2
Braintree 2 14 2
Clochester 3 15
Tendring 2 11
Harlow 3 16 5
Chelmsford 4 21 1
Maldon 1 5
Basildon 3 16
Units Occupied Refugees resettled Units offered not yet occupied
Thurrock 6 25
Southend-on-Sea 5 17
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Tewkesbury 10 45
Gloucester 3 26
Cheltenham 4 24
Cotswold 2 10
Stroud 2 9
HAMPSHIRE
Basingstoke and Deane 3 16
Rushmoor 19 76 1
Test Valley 4 16
Winchester 4 19
East Hampshire 5 27
New Forest 3 17 2
Southampton 6 44
Eastleigh 4 21
Fareham 1 4
Gosport 3 10
Portsmouth 4 22
HEREFORD AND WORCHESTER
Wyre Forest 2 5 1
Bromsgrove 2 9 1
Redditch 2 10
Malvern Hills 6 26 4
Worcester 6 35
Wychavon 5 18
HERTFORDSHIRE
North Hertfordshire 4 18
Dacorum 2 5 1
Welwyn Hatfield 4 10
Hertsmere 2
HUMBERSIDE
Kingston upon Hull 6 29
Scunthorpe 11 38 3
Glanford 6
Cleethorpes 3 14
Great Grimsby 3 13
ISLE OF WIGHT
Medina 1
KENT
Dartford 2 10 2
Gravesham 3 16
Medway 2 9 1
Gillingham 2 11
Swale 2 9 2
Canterbury 3 13 1
Thanet 3 13 1
Tonbridge and Malling 1
Maidstone 4 17
Tunbridge Wells 1 4 1
Ashford 8 42
Shepway 3
LANCHASHIRE
Lancaster 3 14 1
Ribble Valley 4 25
South Ribble 2 11
West Lancashire 2
Blackburn 6 34
Hyndburn 4 19
Burnley 3 13
Pendle 4 21
Rossendale 3 10
LEICESTERSHIRE
North West Leicestershire 3 14
Units Occupied Refugees resettled Units offered not yet occupied
Charnwood 1 4 1
Hinckley and Bosworth 3 15 2
Leicester 5 30
Blaby 2
Harborough 1 8
LINCOLNSHIRE
West Lindsey 2
East Lindsey 5 16
Lincoln 1 7 3
Boston 2
South Kesteven 3 23
South Holland 2 10 3
NORFOLK
West Norfolk 10 47
Breckland 8 44
Norwich 6 34
Broadland 1
Great Yarmouth 2
South Norfolk 2 10 1
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
Corby 5
Kettering 13 65
Deventry 2
Wellingborough 5 26
South Northamptonshire 2 2
NORTHUMBERLAND
Alnwick 4
Wansbeck 2 11
Blyth Valley 6 35
NORTH YORKSHIRE
Richmondshire 2 10
Ryedale 2
Scarborough 4 18
Harrogate 4 14 1
York 2 8 1
Selby 5 26
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Bassetlaw 3 14
Mansfield 1 7 1
Newark 4 22 21
Ashfield 1 5 1
Broxtowe 2 13
Nottingham 2 10
Gelding 2 17 4
Rishcliffe 1 8
OXFORDSHIRE
West Oxfordshire 2 14
Cherwell 2 8
South Oxfordshire 2 16
Value of White House 2 17
Oxford 1 7
SALOP
The Wrekin 6 26
Bridgnorth 2 12
SOMERSET
Sedgemoor 2 14
Mendip 1 5
West Somerset 4 23
Taunton Deane 3 17
Yeovil 2 11
STAFFORDSHIRE
Stoke-on-Trent 7 44 3
Stafford 2 7
East Staffordshire 6 15
Units Occupied Refugees resettled Units offered not yet occupied
South Staffordshire 2 12
Lichfield 1 4
Tamworth 4 13
SUFFOLK
Waveney 4 23
Mid Suffolk 3 10
Suffolk Coastal 12 49
Babergh 10 50
SURREY
Surrey Heath 3 14
Working 5 18
Elmbridge 4 18
Epsom and Ewell 3 12 1
Mole Valley 2 9 1
Tandridge 1 6 2
Waverley 3 13
WARWICKSHIRE
North Warwickshire 2 14
Nuneaton 3 17 2
Rugby 1 5
Warwick 2 7
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester 2 10
Arun 2 19
Worthing 3 14
WILTSHIRE
North Wiltshire 3 12 2
Thamesdown 18 111 2
West Wiltshire 2 19 3
Kennet 2 13
SCOTLAND
CENTRAL
Clackmannan 6 12
Falkirk 5 5 1
Stirling 4 9 2
FIFE
Kirkcaldy 3 5 1
North-East Fife 3 6
GRAMPIAN
Aberdeen 4 14 8
HIGHLAND
Inverness 5 21
Ross and Cromarty 4 22 1
LOTHIAN
East Lothian 4 16
Edinburgh 16 48 14
West Lothian 1 8 2
STRATHCLYED
Clydebank 5
Glasgow 5 16 31
Inverclyde 2 10 2
Motherwell 7 36
Renfrew 5 12 3
TAYSIDE
Perth and Kinross 7 29
WALES
CLWYD
Clowyn 1 7
Delyn 4 16
Units Occupied Refugees resettled Units offered not yet occupied
Alyn and Deeside 2 9 2
Glyndwr 4 16
Wrexham Maelor 7 37 1
DYFED
Ceredigion 2
Preseli 2 9
South Pembrokeshire 2 8
GWENT
Newport 3 20 1
Islwyn 4 25
Torfaen 10 61 1
Monmouth 2 8 2
GWYNEDD
Yns mon—Isle of Anglesey 2
Arfon 2
MID GLAMORGAN
Ogwr 5 28 2
Rhondda 2
Merthyr Tydfil 5 28 7
Rhymney Valley 2 12 2
POWYS
Montgomery 2
Brecknock 2
SOUTH GLAMORGAN
Cardiff 6 37
Vale of Glamorgan 3 9
WEST GLAMORGAN
Swansea 7 33 2
Neath 2
Afan 2
NORTHERN IRELAND
Craigavon 18 87
Lisburn 3 17
Coleraine 5 23
Ballymena 5 18
Antrim 5
(2)
New Town Development Corporation Units Occupied Number of refugees Units offered not yet occupied
Basildon 10 50 2
Bracknell 5 30 2
Central Lancashire 17 92 3
Cumbernauld 2 9 1
Cwmbran 3 18
East Kilbride 9 41
Glenrothes 4 10
Harlow 9 45
Irvine 1 4
Livingston 6 26
Milton Keynes 17 77 3
Northampton 4 27 6
Petgerborough 22 87
Redditch 4 19
Runcorn 7 31 2
Skelmersdale 9 60 3
Stevenage 5 29
Telford 4 28
Washington 6 30
(2)
Constituency Housing Authority area Number of Refugees
Barnet, Finchley Barnet 20
Cardiff South East Cardiff 37
Ebbw Vale Blaenau Gwent
Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles Etterick and Lauderdale,
Peebles Roxburgh and Tweedale
Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury Vale and
Aylesbury Wycombe 37
Basildon Basildon 66
Penrith and the Allardale, Eden and
Borders Carlisle 11
Surrey, East Tandridge 6
Leeds, North East Leeds City 65
Cambridgeshire South and East 76
Cambridgeshire
Lowestoft Waveney 23
Chesham and Amersham Chiltern
Staratford-on-Avon Stratford-on-Avon
St. Ives Penwith and Kerrier
Oswestry Oswerstry and North
Shropshire
Cleveland and Whitby Langbaurth and 18
Scarborough
Worcester Wychavon and Worcester 53
Henley South Oxfordshire 16
Ayr Kyle and Carrick
Pembroke S. Pembrokeshire and 17
Preseli
Spelthorne Spelthorne
Wanstead and Woodford Redbridge
Chelmsford Chelmsford and 21
Brentwood
Guildford Guildford and Waverley 25
Runcorn Warrington, Vale Royal 186
and Halton

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